Tara River Canyon & Ostrog Monastery

Today we drove north via panoramic route 1 to the Durmitor National Park and the Tara River Canyon which, at 1300m, is apparently the second deepest in the world after the Grand Canyon. After our epic walk yesterday, we cheated and drove to the tourist car park so that we only had to hike up the last kilometer to get to the view point. It was warm and sunny at the bottom but unfortunately, as we ascended, the cloud got thicker & it started to drizzle. We couldn't see perhaps as clearly as we would have liked but certainly got the wobbles when standing next to the edge! Next, we were intending to drive the 'Durmitor Ring' which is another panoramic road around the national park but by the time we had descended down Nigel's 'short cut' route, we were running out of time. Instead, we drove back to the campsite via the Ostrog Monastery which is built 900m up into the side of the mountain in the valley where we are staying. We have been looking at it from the caravan all week so figured we ought to go and see it! It was yet another white knuckle drive to get there and just as we were leaving, the bell started ringing and we knew it must be beer o clock 😉Read more