Travel Blogs from Serbia and Montenegro
Jumping Around
Sorry a long one... if your not a reader, just look at the pictures. Firstly why is the Serbia and Montenegro team all black apart from one guy? There is not one african guy here! Montenegro is as of a few weeks ago seperate from Serbia. To ...
We have a car!
... of Filipovic. He died for his communist beliefs and is thus considered a hero to older generations. In the newer nationalistic era of Serbia, their love for this man is not so strong, but the monument is now a piece of Valjevo's history and thus it ...
Happy Feet
... for an ethereal experience. It is one that resonated very deeply in me and I will not forget it... So one more day in Serbia and then it's back to Germany...this was a very eye opening experience. I had never traveled east before but now I would ...
Belgrade
... has become famous, but in my solitude I had failed to embrace it, and it too had failed to reach out to me. And so I would leave Serbia with tepid memories, but equally with the feeling that on another day I might just have had the craziest fun night of ...
A surreal school reunion
... to the ongoing tensions in the area, we were forced to change our route due to growing problems between Kosovo and Serbia. Entering from the Macedonian border, however, had still been slow and nerve-wracking. Such geopolitical manoeuvres and wranglings ...
rafting down Tara River
... of bed. My muscles were swearing at me for yesterday's hike. When I finally got up, I pulled open my curtains and couldn't believe what I saw! Everything was covered in snow and miniscule flurries showered down. While day 1 Durmitor National Park ...
serbıa. the most dangerous place ı ever
hıtched all nıght long and made a late nıght border crossıng at 2am ınto serbıa, acordıng to everyone except cute lıttle croatıon vıktor, the most dangerous place we could go, especıally at ...
My son, do not put the cat in the car.
... of his ashes. Next we checked out St. Sava's church which, when finished, will be the largest in Serbia... But it's already been 100 years in the making and there's a long way to go! When we first stepped foot inside the church the head priest approached ...
just a daytrip from Sarajevo
The streets in Bosnia are horrible, so the tour was quite exhausting, but I was rewarded, the bay of Kotor is a great ...
I hate water
... another little box that show in or out. Bay of Kotor- Kotor is the main city we visited in Montenegro. The bay had quite interesting history and story. The strait for the bay is quite narrow (ferry across takes less than 5 mins). ...
Transitions
... since a bit of political tussles) girl - "Oh no, it's very beautiful here" (I focus on the future and the hopes of Serbia and not on the past) lady - "Yeah, I even went to Montenegro, but it's so rocky over there, you know?" (I hope you like that ...
Kotor between the Serbs and Albanians.
(C) I've had a very romantic image of Montenegro that goes back many many years and at least as far as the last James Bond movie where they played the million dollar poker game in a place called Montenegro actually filmed in Vancouver. But seriously ...
Beautiful Montenegro and rain again
... . I remain hopeful, however. We're here until Sunday, so there is bound to be at least one day of sunshine. Right? *Update: The country of Serbia and Montenegro was formed on February 5, 2003, when the former Yugoslavia Republic disbanded and ...
Belgrad / Serbia
... . Of cause Knez Mihailove is a "must see". Kalemegdan-park is a great place, from there you can see the junction of Save and Duna. One thing we disliked was that it is allowed to smoke EVERYWHERE, in restaurants and cafés and so on and EVERYONE ...
Belgrade Pt. 1
First time in Belgrade. I was there for about 10 minutes. Got a taxi from the station to the airport for 200 dinar. From Bratislava I had to go to Milan to collect my luggage that was a friends houes, then 18hrs on the train to Belgrade. Was ok, shared a ...
Ostrog Monastery
Hallo zusammen, habe zwei Naechte in Budva uebernachtet, die Saison ist zum Glueck schon vorbei, so dass dass die Technodiskotheken etc. alle schon zu sind. Habe einen Tagesausflug zum Ostrog Kloster im Landesinneren gemacht. Da gibt es keinen ...
Riding
Got to the Happy Hippo Hostel in Budva, Montenegro where I would set up camp for the longest stay this month (6 nights). I'm a sucker for free internet and DVD library. It's pretty much the only formal hostel in ...
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 ...
Sole Survivors in Montenegro
... comes a time in every long time backpackers travel journey when it seems you've seen every cave, church, beach, sunset and tourist site imaginable. Montenegro was "it" for us. A group of alien midgets with 8 arms and cone heads could have landed in ...
Don't judge a book by it's cover
... it's own unique way! So during the day Me and Seb saw the temple and most of the city! In the evening, we went out and experienced the nightlife, which weirdly enough is all on boats! Yes clubs on boats! So the next day as we were leaving Belgrade ...
One big happy family
... flew by and I found it unbelievable how well I clicked with everyone. Marko in particular entertained me with his insights and philosophies on life, something which I enjoy formulation hypothesis's on as well. This is of course not forgetting Janja the ...
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 ...
Belgrade
... fried cheese which was quite nice. Took a train 100kms out of Sofia, which cost 2.90 Lev. Got to a small town 50kms from the Serbia/Bulgaria border. Walked for a while to the freeway to try and get a ride. Was there for an hour or so before I was picked ...
Starting the process for my İranian visa
... I would arrıve and leave Iran. I learned that I could make changes to my ıtınerary whıle I am ın Iran but the arrıval and departure dates couldnt change. So I pıcked Sept 5 as my arrıval date and I would leave about 3 weeks later. I could actually ...
Tara Canyon
... . Eventually it came out to a clearing and after climbing another hill we were rewarded with a view, our first glimpse. And wow it was stunning!! A ridiculously steep drop that looked to go on forever underneath us and some more towering mountains the ...
One beautiful moment
... guard. It seemed quite strange to see these places, often just skeletens of buildings, protected by large fences, armed guards and occasionally tanks. There not being an awful lot to see around town as such (though pleasant enough to stroll aimlessly ...

