ACCOMODATION
   The most important reason for visiting the Park continues to be 'visiting the mountains.' The main motives for visits are the need for purity, silence, virgin nature, contact with people of similar views, and the observation of animals and plants. Chalets are still the most frequently used accommodation. Among the tourists visiting Central Balkan, 80% come for more than two days, and 70% spend these nights in chalets. For some people such visits are a way of spending their annual holiday. This group stays for five and a half days on average. Two-thirds of the visits are made in the warm months between June and September. Another category of visitor, mostly composed of hikers, enters the Park for shorter time - one to three days.