Hotel Jezera Durmitor National Park

... all the time, and sleeping in the hammock is a sweating thing... But cheap, to now i just spent around 200 euro (including both excursions with 80 euros...) Unfortunatly i had to buy a new camera in Budva, because this one cannot focus any more, and that was 164 euros and is even more weight.<br><br>I am looking forward to Podgorica!!<br><br>

... mountain. Big houses had personalities that could handle winter, and they claimed lonely spots on the endless plateau. Snow clung to far-away, black mountains. The air was fresh and black with clouds. In one spot, a river cut through mountains like a knife cuts cake, to make a foggy valley which resembled Alaska, and it seemed strange that this valley should be overflowing with white, red-roofed houses. It also seemed like the whole country of ...

... so it was really stunning and cool and no once else was around so it felt like I had the whole place to myself, it really truly was beautiful. The photos I have taken do not do the park justice. I took a hike around the rim of the lake which gave me some other great views. The water is so crystal clear it is amazing and you can see everything in the lake all the fish and toads just swimming around. I managed to get to some waterfalls that were blocking the way of the path so I had to ...

... you have to do it 3 times to them. It is amazing that they just seem to get it that you have no idea what they are saying but they are conntent to keep talking away to you. I had this a few times when I was waiting for the bus at the station. The weather has being really up and down recently, there was a storm last night in Budva and it poored down and again today when we were getting to the national park it started to tip it down and there was also thunder and ...

... right like we were told to, and walked to the ski resort. When we got there there were no signs or markers, so we asked around to find the "well-marked" trail to Black Lake. Again, this did not seem as "easy" as the information girl led us to believe. We walked for another 45 mins or so...and finally came to some markings (red dots with white centers). We found an actual trail after a good 1.5 hours of walking. When we finally found the Crno jezero (Black lake ...

... here have one compartment in which the front half is for nonsmokers and the back half for smokers. Yup, as if smoke stops midway down the open compartment. Oops, got off on a tangent. I was dropped off at Bogetici, the town below Ostrog Monastery. It is the main pilgrimage site for Serbian/Montenegran/Croatian Orthodox Catholics and has two levels, lower and upper monasteries 3 kms apart. The upper monastery seemed to be carved out from the canyon ...

... appointment; four other people had cancelled. It was a one-on-one rafting experience. We went over some rapids, hiked to where Utica River formed from underground sources, but most of the time was spent on chatting and learning about Montenegran culture and words. It was the first time I ever rafted with my ski gloves, hat, jacket, socks, and 2 wetsuits. Though it didn't snow ...

... 2.5 hrs), other viewpoints (7km OW). Then he added enthusiastically that on "this clearest day of the summer," he would hike the mountains, Savin Kuk, Kulina, Bobotov Kuk (peaks of 2500meters). Hearing it would take at least 4 hours one-way, I was tempted but decided to do easy circuit around the lake. Becuase I am all about S-A-F-E-T-Y (that's for my parents). And 8 hours on the mountain when the weather is inclement tonight does not sound safe. I head out. I was ...

The Gulf of Kotor in southwestern Montenegro, is a winding bay on the Adriatic Sea. The gulf, sometimes called Europe's southernmost fjord, is in fact a submerged river canyon of the disintegrated Bokelj River which used to run from the high mountain plateaus of Mount Orjen. It is an important tourist attraction in Montenegro. The gulf has been inhabited since ...

... first, the other with the cyrillic) and three heads of state, each serving eight months at a time. All a bit messy really. And a pain in the **** if you're near the Bosnia/Hercegovina station and want to get to the other one. My grumbling aside, I had anticipated a difficult journey as I was crossing a border and attempting to reach somewhere a little out of the way, and after my experiences with awful connections in the more developed Slovenia and ...