Thursday, August 6, 2009

Pluzine -> Scepan Polje

After swimming a bit in the (artificial) huge lake, we cycle to the border in an amazing road, we passed more than 40 tunnels and the water of Piva river was so transparent and blue it loareoked photoshoped in nature :p..
some hitchhikers we met in the way, trying to count how many secopnds a rock take to fall from the high bridge (5 seconds!!!)...
We then camped in a rafting camp where Piva river and Tara River meet and starts Drina River... seeing Bosnia i Herzegovina in the other side of the river...
the intersection of the three rivers
The owner of the place was (too much) friendly and offered us the dinner, patatoes cooked in a traditional metallic pot in coal for hours.... really tasty...
saving moritz from the possibility of the dum to open...
before the dinner, Isabella and Jagna, gave a really interesting workshop about Jugoslavia history really helpful to understand the way borders and cultures were built around here...

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Zabljak -> Pluzine

it was raining hard all night, most of the people just stayed insied their tents till late, but me and yo went to a walk under the crazy weather to see the Crno Lake (black lake) inside Durmitor natural reserve...
We then left to cycle in the beautiful and peaceful mountains (i passed the highest point ever by bike :D... 1907 meters from sea level)...
Moritz, 1907 meters above the sea level
all the way was specially beautiful and as the weather was not hot it was quite nice to pedal in the mountains, almost with no traffic at all...
arriving to Pluzine, in a crazy road with tunnels in the curves was quite crazy and exciting and the beautiful view to the lake in the middle of the mountains was surreal...
we camped in the back yard of a local restaurant... Ana and Eva (spain) joined the biketour :)

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Bukovica -> Zabljak

We cycle to Zabliak in the morning and had a free day there, unluckily it starting rain (heavily)... I stayed in a restaurant on internet and some people joined me to try some local food...
Our planed camp spot was inside Durmitor national park and we had to find a different one in order to make dinner on firecamp...

Monday, August 3, 2009

Savnik -> Bukovica

In the morning we left our stuff in the camp and cycle to the Komarnica Canyon where we passed almost all day...
eco-tourism camp, built with local materials
After a nice resting day near the canyon we went back to get our bags and cycle, few km to a nice spot to camp next to a coffee, were we had a night with some local workers offering us a bottle of homemade rakjia ;D

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Niksic -> Savnik

having a great waking up call by a bunch of sheep walking next to us we had breakfast in the city and i went to the local emergency room to let a doctor see my chin (no problem although j could have a stitch or two if it was after the fall)
We cycle all together UP till a small village where we had lunch... Andrea (italy) then continued alone in the main road, as he was in need of rest, and we took a mountain road to Savnik.
Lunch time ;) after a wild climb below hot sun...
In Savnik we camped next to the river and me and yolanda, by the night, when everyone else was asleep were invited by a nice guy for a coffee, after he had seen us in television because of Podgorica action... nice and weird (we could not comunicate at all...)...great road down to Savnik, where i passed the 5000km in my ciclometer

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Podgorica -> Niksic

We cycled following the old national road to Niksic, stopping next to the river for swim and lunch..barcha, ivona and Yarden left the tour after lunch, returning to podgorica, yarden was one of those great friends i made this trip...
Me, jagna (croacia), andrea (italy) and nizam (turkey) find a way to go to one of the most special monasteries in this country (me and jagna hitchhike there :p)... build inside the rock...
then we cycle the four in the night (only me had lights) to niksic passing some crazy tunnels...

after hiking to the monastery i twisted my foot (cycling was not a problem) and when we were arriving to the camp we stopped and as i put my foot on the floor to hold my bike all my leg failed and i hit my chin on the floor!!! (first "accident" on a bike in this trip)...after cleaning the blood myself we cycled to the camp and slept after a long day...