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From the saddle, resume straight on east into the forest. The trail immediately bends left and starts descending via more wonderful beech forest. After 5mins you cross the right edge of a large bracken-clad clearing before re-entering the forest, where the path once again becomes broad and clear. Having passed an old broken footbridge over a dry gully, the trail then becomes steeper and stonier, eventually dropping to join a track. Follow this straight on down east, passing a small wooden hunters’ refuge some 30mins from the saddle. Continue straight on downstream along the Svinska Reka for another 20mins to arrive at an important junction in the valley of the Kostina Reka.

The green blazes now continue left downstream, bound for the village of Ribaritsa, about a 1hr walk away. However, you turn right, following the track south upstream. After 10mins you pass a national park information board, then 5mins further on ignore the minor track that breaks off right. Keep on the main dirt road up the valley, here and there marked with some faint green blazes, and after 15mins pass a water fountain. Some 15mins beyond the water fountain there is a pretty cascade on the right.