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High N' Dry in Durmitor National Park
1st September 2012
We caught the very early bus (5:45am) to the town of Žabljak on the outskirts of Durmitor National Park. The bus took about 5 hours to reach Žabljak and passed through a very mountainous region. At first, the view was very smoky due to all the forest fires but it soon cleared up and we were greeted with clear …
Tara Canyon
... another sole around, it was as if we had the whole National Park to ourselves; in every direction as far as the eye could see natures best work was on splendid show. Then nature did in fact call and break my spellbound state in need to squat and pee.
It was difficult to tear our eyes away but eventually we made our way back down to the path, and then followed the road along an 8km route through forest (didn't spot any bears!) and out onto fields ...
Ridiculous hike
... getting anywhere. It was also probably fairly dangerous as we were still just free styling it and it was almost practically vertical with some pretty unstable rocks. And we were both getting dizzy. Mum would have been having kittens if she'd seen us :D
So, gracefully as ever, we slid down a lot of it on our bottoms which was great fun (until I hit a rock on my ****!) Then got lost again in the woody bit but somehow stumbled out ...
Journey into the mountains
After a terrible night sleep for me (because all the guys in our dorm had a snoring competition) we got the bus to Niksic, which actually went on a very roundabout way via the capital Podgorica (which looked like a **** hole) But the coastline we went along first was breathtaking (some hairy roads though on the edge of sheer cliffs)
There we had to wait for our next bus which would take us to Zabljak, our base to explore Durmitor National ...
Day Ten - Part II
... that we would enjoy the views, but as we crawled along the goat track at 10mph, we thought that it would be dark before we left these mountains. We had laughed at the advice we had been given previously; don't even get out the car for a pee break, but we realised it was no joke, as we literally drove through the minefields of the Bosnia-Montenegro border.
As we came nearer the border crossing, after about four hours we saw two policeman this ...