Dolina Ropojana

Once every jump from the jumping board had been jumped, we finally (at 3 pm!) got on the road on our bicycles. We took the quieter road around Plav lake towards the Accursed Mountains (Prokletije).

These tall and steep mountains have been ground down by glaciers into long valleys (dolina) tightly fenced in by rock. We headed into the Ropojana valley.

"Oh it's a single person road again papa!", Kiran shouted back to me. This is what he called the single lane roads. Except it very soon turned into a rocky track. A very hard rock track, as we entered Prokletije National Park.

Our slipping and grunting up the steep tracks made what we saw in there even more surprising: a VW Golf parked nonchalantly next to a huge cliff. The Golf really is the all terrain vehicle of the Balkans.

We found an open place to camp in front of a giant cliff. We enjoyed the sunset with a Greek salad.Read more