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Nis Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Nis, Serbia and Montenegro
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Arriving in the dark
This is a top pick! ... , looking pretty bats we arrived at the hostel, me covered in mud and both of us exhausted. Vladimir who runs Hostel Nis was very kind to us, and helped us carry the bags etc up. A shower revived us and a Canadian called Ron who, after several chats with ...
Blissful day off!
This is a top pick! ... in serious sunshine. For once people weren't looking at me like I was crazy wearing flip-flops. Really like Nis, a town with everything you need and lots to do but easy to walk around and happy friendly people. The river looked gorgeous in the sunshine ...
Scary...
... not like British sausages! The train ride to Belgrade was mercifully warm and event free, and the scenery between Nis and Belgrade is beautiful. Serbia really has a stunning landscape and the 4 hour ride went by pretty quickly in the end, even if ...
Costantino's polis
... legge che stabilì la supremazia del cristianesimo qui assume anche un significato politico nazionalistico. A proposito di nazionalismo, Nis fu uno dei maggiori centri della resistenza ai turchi, al punto che durante una battaglia in cui la ...
La coerenza è per gli idioti
... ' tempo. Superato il senso di colpa il viaggio procede bene. Subito a sud di Belgrado si estende l'area più rurale della Serbia, e dal finestrino vedo scorrere frutteti, vigne e campi coltivati dai contadini con utensili manuali. A un certo punto, in ...
Finding my Nis
... Great Airport at Nis (rhymes with 'sheesh'), which rather than great is quite small and which only serves flights to and from Montenegro, as I find out later to some consternation. I clear customs and cab to tonight's accommodations at the Best Western ...
Breaking up the journey
... in Serbia. There turned out to be some problems with this. Most importantly, the fact that as Serbia doesnt recognise Kosovo as an independant territory, and the borders into Kosovo are UNMIK (UN mission in Kosovo) controlled, I didnt receive a Serbian ...
And back in Serbia
So back to Serbia... to try and go through Bulgaria as they don't require visa's from us.. three hours later we get the train... by this time we should be in ...
Bus change
Arrive in Nis, very hot. Trz to decide where to next. See bus leaving in few minutes for Belgrad, decide to take it. Express bus, nearlz non stop, there in 3 hours. arrive about 5 PM. Take late 21:00 train to Budabest. Four of us in 6 compartment ...
SERBIAN CYCLING
here are our stories of crossing Serbia - Cerna Gora (Montenegro)... our route was north east to south east through vojvodina and around beograd into the homolske mountains. serbia, a war torn country, doesn't show the aftereffects of war in really ...
Nis, Serbia
Nice little town with a crazy skull tower and a fortress and a concentration camp. Everyone has something to say about me going to ...
Nis
... cheap! Pedestrian streets in the center and a historically important fortress adjacent just across the river, where one of Serbia's heroes sacrificed himself and 4000 of his men to kill 10000 Turks during the Battle of Cegar. See the Skull Tower entry ...
Lapovo - Nis
20.05.2011 31. Etappe Start: Lapovo Raststaette Startzeit: 6:15 Uhr km: 133 Gesamt km: 2386 Ziel: Nis Hostel The Garden Ich bin auf dem Weg nach Nis, dem Tor zum Orient. Kennt jemand die flirrende Hitze an der Adria? Ich habe heute einen Durchsatz ...
Oct 06, 2010
The Balkan Countries
... . Half the time during that ride I didnt know what country I was in. Took a local bus from Nis to the border of Serbia and Bulgaria. I have noticed that when I do ask for help people are very friendly and the younger generation seems to know ...
Falling in love with Montinegro
... drivers to give you a hoot to let you know they are passing, and occasionally people coming from either direction would honk and wave. In Montenegro however it was a very common occurrence (maybe one in 5 cars would wave and smile) they were so friendly ...
Constantine's Birthplace
... out by reading a Serbian travel guide (in Serbian) in a bookstore, and going from there. Not that there is much to see here, and if Nis hadnt happened to be directly on the Belgrade - Sofia train line i wouldnt have come here at all, but since it is i ...
dark rails into serbia
... train ride into the town of Kolasin, where I would rest briefly before taking the overnight train to Nis (a connection point in Serbia, pronounced "Neesh", which has services onwards to Bulgaria). Kolasin was the base for Beth's volunteer workcamp, ...
Just a different weekend
... work a bit earlier than we should, me, the friend mentioned above and an other one that wanted to visit Serbia forever. Got into the car in Athens and started heading to Thessaloniki and from there on to the borders with FYROM. While on the road we talked ...
Nish to be here
... we were going to be in Pristina or on an overnight train - nut reports of Kosovo stamps meaning refusal at Serbia border, plus stories of massive delays and uncomfortable journeys on the train, we opted to go from Ohrid to Nis - and we were glad we did! ...
Nis (prononcer Niche)
... dire qu'on est au rendez vous. Quelques discussions et conseils de back paper nous fon attendre le bus...qui finalement déboule dans Nis et s'arrete comme convenu. C'est parti pour 9h de bus (départ a 21h), passeports en poche pour traverser 2 ...
.:balkans:.
just a stop during a journey between sofia and skopje. tried to find the skull tower that lonely planet was talking about, but later we discovered it was around 5km out from the centre and so we didn't have time to see ...
Nis
... les douaniers sont allés chercher à la Rochelle ! (pas le jour même bien sûr, quoique ça expliquerait l’attente !) Nis, grande ville, grandes artères, peu d’indications pour trouver la forteresse, et nous voilà garés en plein ...
Skull Tower
... or from the removal of skulls for burial by relatives of killed rebels. In 1892, with donations gathered from all over Serbia, a chapel designed by the Belgrade architect Dimitrije T. Leko was built to enclose what was left of the tower. Today, only 58 ...
Constantine's palace at Mediana
One of the most historically influential Roman emperors (see my blog intro!), Constantine the Great was from Nis. The site at Mediana is a short city bus ride from the Skull Tower, where they have found the remains of a palace built here in the 4th ...
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