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May 2023
A regional tour of Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro & Croatia Read more
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    Day 5

    Crossing into Montenegro

    May 17, 2023 in Montenegro ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    From Novi Pazar we enjoyed a picturesque mountain road journey, crossing from Serbia to Montenegro.
    A wonderful route with many tunnels, stunning vistas and lovely small villages. On our way a brief stop at the town of Berand and a visit to the Archaeological museum of the Polimlje Region. Founded in 1955, it comprised of several collections: archaeological, ethnographic, numismatic, heraldic, natural history and an art collection, as well as the Gallery of Šudikova. A large number of exhibits in the archaeological collection date back to the Early Stone Age. It offered an interesting insight to the rich history of the area. Then onto Biogradska Gora National Park.Read more

  • TravelerBalkans Tour
    Day 5

    Biogradska Gora National Park

    May 17, 2023 in Montenegro ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    This is a beautiful preserve of biodiversity with over 200 species' of birds, 86 species' of tree's and shrubs and many small mammals. Some of the most significant species are beech, mountain maple, sycamore, elm, ash. Also conifers including fir and spruce.
    The lake of Biogradsko, fed from waters of the Biogradska River, and drained by river Jezeršt. The shores of Biogradsko Lake contain a forrest of trees, many are several hundred years old and more than 50 m high. Above the forest, there are gently curved mountain peaks whose slopes are in the summer covered with colourful meadows full of beautiful mountain flowers. A wonderful natural national park.    Read more

  • TravelerBalkans Tour
    Day 5

    Kolasin

    May 17, 2023 in Montenegro ⋅ 🌧 13 °C

    Late afternoon, arrived to the small town of Kolsin for a couple of nights.
    A walk to explore the town, starting with the square which is named after a bearer of the Order of Peoples Hero Vukman Kruscic, on the square was a monument of Veljko Vlahovic, the volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and one of the most famous bearers of the Order of People's Hero from Montenegro. The monument is the work of a sculptor named Oto Logo. Also of interest, between 1881 and 1902, as much as thirty-nine permissions for opening cafés were issued in the town. Kolasin was widely famous for its cafés and restaurants. It was a town with the largest number of cafés per capita in the former Yugoslavia! Then up to the he Church of St. Demetrius.Read more

  • TravelerBalkans Tour
    Day 6

    Tara River Canyon and bridge

    May 18, 2023 in Montenegro ⋅ 🌧 9 °C

    A wonderful morning drive through dramic seanery along a winding narrow road following the Tara River assending a fabulous limestone canyon. We stopped briefly at the Tara River Bridge. When it was built in 1940, this bridge was declared an engineering marvel, among the largest reinforced concrete bridges in Europe, with an incredible arch span of 116 m. Two years after it was finished in 1942 a local engineer named Lazar Jauković who worked on the construction mined one of the arches in order to prevent the transfer of enemy units to Montenegro. In retaliation over the diversion, the occupying authorities arrested and shot him on a cliff in front of the bridge.
    The next stop was the town of Zabljak, the highest urban settlement in the Balkans (1.450m above sea level), surrounded with 23 mountain peaks over 2.200m high, 18 mountain lakes and at the top of the canyon of River Tara. The first name of the town was "Varezes water", from the strong source of fresh, drinkable water. Later on, it was called "Anovi", a place were trading caravans used to stop and rest. From 1870 it became known as Zabljak. According to legend, the name Zabljak comes from the frogs (zaba a Montenegrian word for frog) that live in the region. Today it is a ski and winter sports region. Here were many resort hotels, ski lodges and cabins with steeply pitched roofs. Also some alpine cows and rolling green meadows. Very picturesque and stunning, dispit the light rain and low clouds.    Read more

  • TravelerBalkans Tour
    Day 6

    Durmitor National Park

    May 18, 2023 in Montenegro ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C

    The highlight of today was an opportunity to visit and explore the Durmitor National Park and Black Lake. At the park are infact 18 glacier lakes, know as 'mountain-eyes'. The most beautiful, largest and best known is Black Lake, located in the conifer forest, under the mountain top Meded. Conifer forest dominates this area, so it gives the lake its emerald green colour. The depth and surface of the Lake varies during the year. Maximum length, during the highest water level is 1,155m, while its maximum width is 810m. It is made out of Small and Big Black Lake. The Black Lake is fed by rain, surface flows and underground sources of water. a significant source is from an inflow of melt water from a periodical source called Čerline. During the year, when the water inflow on Cerline is bigger, water from Small Lake flows into the Big Lake, but during the rest of the year, water from Big Lake inflows into Small Lake. This causes a natural phenomena called bifurcation, and the outlet of water into two different directions, into the rivers, Piva and Tara. Along the Lake share, there is a well kept trail which goes around the lake which I explored.Read more

  • TravelerBalkans Tour
    Day 7

    Podgorica the Capital of Montenegro

    May 19, 2023 in Montenegro ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    A wonderful morning drive on a grand new motorway for a stop at Podgorica the capital of Montenegro.
    First impressions were of a relaxed a nice city. Its rivers and bridges include the modern Millennium Bridge over the Morača River, and the stone bridge spanning the Ribnica River, plus the centuries-old Clock Tower, built by the Turks which dominates the old town. A stop at the Church of St. Dorda, a modest but interesting church, research indicates that it is almost a thousand years old, which makes it one of the oldest active Christian places of worship in Montenegro. Built in as a single-nave vaulted building, with a semicircular apse, a low dome and a belfry on a trestle with three bells. Paintings from the 16th-17th centuries, have been preserved in the church.Read more

  • TravelerBalkans Tour
    Day 7

    Cathedral and King Nikola's Museum

    May 19, 2023 in Montenegro ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Also in Podgorica a stop to look at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ. A new Orthodox Christian Church. Then we went around the King Nikola's Museum, a small residential building, originally intended for Princess Darinka, the widow of the previous ruler of Montenegro Danilo I, began in 1863. However, a year after the departure of the Montenegrin Princess from Montenegro (1867), the newly built building became the new residence of Prince Nikola I. After several interventions to upgrade and repair, the architecturally modest two storied building underwent a reconstruction in 1910. Since the Museum's founding in 1926 its permanent display was designed as a reconstruction of the environment of the Montenegrin court with a fragmented representation of the political, military and cultural history of Montenegro.Read more

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    Day 7

    Cetinje Monastery and Njegusi

    May 19, 2023 in Montenegro ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Continued to Cetinje to visit the Monastery then a break in the small village of Njegusi at an old inn dateing back to 1881. Sampled some smoked ham and cheese plus enjoyed the local grape brandy and honey wine. A stunning drive up into the mountains with fabulous views back down valley.Read more

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    Day 7

    Kotor

    May 19, 2023 in Montenegro ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    After a long and fasanating day, arrived to the delightful coastal town of Kotor with its walled fortress, cobbled narrow streets and lovely buildings.
    The Kotor Fortress has partly preserved its medieval defensive system (12th-14th centuries) characterized by narrow and high vertical ramparts (up to 1.5 m thick) occasionally strengthened by square based towers with walkways. Given its specific geostrategic position, for Venetians the Kotor Fortress represented a kind of experiment in new approaches to theory and practice of military architecture. It integrated a bastion defensive system, characteristic of the Italian "cinquecento" on the side facing the sea, with artillery platforms and lunettes above the town, and the still medieval system of defence on the side towards the hill. During the rule of the Venetian Republic (1420-1797) the Kotor Fortress was one of the most important fortifications on the eastern Adriatic coast, because by dominating the Bay of Boka Kotorska it guarded Venetian maritime trading routes towards the Levant. The fortress was in use during the Austro Hungarian rule (1814-1918), when Kotor was the seat of the civil and military government for the Bay of Boka Kotorska.Read more

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