Serbia and Montenegro
Travel Blogs from Serbia and Montenegro
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Appealingly ugly
... , but even that was overshadowed by the rediculously flambouyant Raichle Palace. A monstrosity of a building, far too elaborately decorated and styled, I couldn't help but smile when I looked at it. I was really disappointed to discover the gallery within ...
from Belgrade with a smile
... to get settled for my upcoming 9 hour train adventure which took me out of Bosnia into Croatia and then to Serbia thus adding tons of new stamps to my passport interestingly enough Bosnia and Croatia never ...
The Csada Homeland
... was the only alternative. - Getting lost on the back roads and hills outside of Novi Sad while searching for a monastery and eventually finding a different monastery, which was just fine with us. Once you've seen one 12th century fresco, ...
Soooo hot....want to touch the heiny....aaaaoooooo
... . At night we tried to go to the floating clubs on the river, but we went at midnight, which was apparently a few hours before people start showing up so we had a few overpriced cocktails and left. ...
Crna Gora
Montenegro is no longer politically connected with of Serbia, but Travelpod seems a bit behind the times. Of course, they didn't check our passports between the two ...
Serbian Slog
Not much to report here, long hot ride across into Serbia, Border crossings now a doddle, roads suprisingly good with some beautiful countryside along the ...
Budva
... decided to relax in Budva after last two days of productive sightseeing. Enjoyed sitting out on the deck staring out at the Adriatic Sea and little island "Sveti Nikola" in front of me and Old Town walls to the right. Ate my beef jerky from Taiwan, the ...
Kotor town on the coast of Montenegro
Old habour town with an old castel. For me mor impressive than ...
Kotor Bay
... was not as dramatic as Iceland's fjords but it was very beautiful. The sea was an indigo blue as is most of coastal Montenegro. I decided to climb the 1500 steps to the old fortifications on the mountainside above Kotor. It gave me good views of ...
Refurendum Success!
... ready for the worldcup, Montenegro was going through its 2006 referendum that officially made them separate state from Serbia. (Serbia and Montenegro played together through the tournament) We jetted through Albania, knowing we had to meet Greg in ...
Kotor Bay - frickin' beautiful!
... eh well, we survived. In the evening we went to an amazing floating restaurant where I ordered absolutely NO cheese, and sampled Montenegro's token vegetarian dish (I'm actually glad they had one as it was unflappably delish), vegetable risotto. It was a ...
Great old city
En-route from the Croatian-Montenegro border we stopped at the monastery and church on the islands across from Perast. I stopped next to the lake when I saw a spear-fisherman on his little aluminium boat going out to dive. We chatted briefly and I ...
Dinars anyone
... stay there unpleasant! However I would like very much to go back someday and have a more favourable experience! Some interesting things about Serbia though: Most tourist related establishments are monitored by the government to protect tourists ...
Serbia
... and snacks for the road and the staff seemed nice. They allowed their two year old child to run around behind the counter and play with the cigarette packs during our cash transaction. Remember when cigarettes were in plain view in stores in Quebec? Think ...
The Belgrade massive
... , my couchsurfing host has a whole host of his Serbian friends here as well as about 8 people who are travelling. We are drinking rakija and cooking good food which cost no more than a euro. I cant believe just how cheap it is here. Tonight looks like its ...
Belgrade Beanie!
... in it and it tasted incredible!! Chatted for quite a bit with the owner and her son Goran who was very passionate and opinionated about Serbia and it's history and the rest of the world's treatment of Serbia throughout history. Walked around rest of Zemun ...

