“Mon­te­ne­gro High­lands”

The expe­di­tion starts in the nor­t­hern Mon­te­ne­grin town of Pljevlja, where we will refuel and get our first sup­plies before we drive around Mount Lju­bišnja (2238 m) for some breath­ta­king views over the Tara Can­yon. The first day ends at the offi­cial camp near the famous Đurđe­vića Tara Bridge. The next day beg­ins with an optio­nal 3‑hour raf­ting tour on the Tara River (not included in the expe­di­tion price). If you don’t want to go raf­ting, you can enjoy the sce­n­ery around the camp and do some photo shoots of the very attrac­tive bridge, or zipline across the can­yon (three dif­fe­rent zipli­nes are available). After lunch we con­ti­nue to Dur­mi­tor Natio­nal Park, where we visit the most famous view­point before we settle in a camp­site near Žabljak, the main seat of the natio­nal park. Optio­nally, if there is still time, we can do the 80 km long round trip through Dur­mi­tor — many fasci­na­ting views and two moun­tain pas­ses almost 2000 m high. Finally we leave all traces of civi­liza­tion behind and embark on a three-day, pure wil­der­ness expe­ri­ence in the cen­tral part of the Mon­te­ne­grin high­lands. So before we leave Žabljak we have to refuel and refill for the next three days, as there will be no way to do so until we reach Pod­go­rica, the capi­tal of Mon­te­ne­gro, on the fifth day in the after­noon. During a jour­ney of more than 200 kilo­me­ters we will never drop below the 1300 m alti­tude (the average ride height is 1500–1800 m), and our camp­si­tes will reach heights of up to 1760 m (so it can be quite cold at night towards the end of Sep­tem­ber , with occa­sio­nal free­zing tem­pe­ra­tures). But it will be worth it, because crossing these moun­tain ran­ges will pro­ba­bly be the high­light of the tour, both in terms of the beauty of the land­scape and the dri­ving plea­sure. After refue­ling in Pod­go­rica, we meet up at a beau­tiful wild camp­site on Lake Rika­vac, right on the Alba­nian bor­der. The last 15 kilo­me­ters of access to the lake are really extra­or­di­nary, very simi­lar to the most attrac­tive trails in the Wes­tern Alps. Day six takes us fur­ther to the south side of the Komovi Moun­ta­ins and ends on Bjel­asica, pro­ba­bly the best moun­tain for cycling tours in Mon­te­ne­gro. In seve­ral places on the grassy rid­ges of Bjel­asica it is pos­si­ble to reach over 2000 m on bikes, which is not nor­mally pos­si­ble in the rocky land­scape else­where in Mon­te­ne­gro. The next day is enti­rely devo­ted to explo­ring the trails and views of Bjel­asica and ends near ano­ther excep­tio­nally beau­tiful lake at an alti­tude of almost 1800 m. On the eighth day, we then take the ridge link to the north side of Komovi Moun­tain, before des­cen­ding shortly after­wards to the small town of Andri­je­vica to refuel and refill. Our route con­ti­nues to Mokra Moun­tain, a place where nature has been rich in vege­ta­tion and the tree line rises well above 1900m! We camp at a local noma­dic sett­le­ment at an alti­tude of 1750 m, have the oppor­tu­nity to expe­ri­ence real Mon­te­ne­grin moun­tain life with the ani­mals and taste fresh milk, cheese and other local dis­hes pre­pared by the she­p­herds.…. During the tour we mostly sleep on beau­tiful natu­ral camp­si­tes in com­plete wil­der­ness, often near lakes, at alti­tu­des bet­ween 1300 and 1800 m, so prepare warm clo­thes — even in mid­sum­mer the nights can be cold at these alti­tu­des. For three days we will be in offi­cial camps. Our average arri­val time at the camp­site is bet­ween 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. and the mor­ning depar­ture time is usually bet­ween 8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Mon­te­ne­gro is a coun­try rich in wild­life (inclu­ding wol­ves and bears) but no attacks have been recor­ded on cam­pers so you can relax. To make cam­ping more com­for­ta­ble, you should bring fol­ding tables and chairs as well as coo­king uten­sils for food, mobile ref­ri­ge­ra­tor (12 V), etc. In Žabljak there will be a pos­si­ble bun­ga­low or hotel alter­na­tive to cam­ping — we advise the par­ti­ci­pants of the tour and if you want to inter­rupt the cam­ping rou­tine for a day, it is pos­si­ble to spend the night here (not included in the expe­di­tion price). You will receive a GPS track in good time on how to get to the start­ing point (Pljevlja) from your home town, as well as the phone num­ber of your guide. Please make sure you have tra­vel insu­rance before start­ing the tour. We expect you to arrive with a vehicle in good tech­ni­cal con­di­tion that can with­stand ten days of mode­rate off-roa­ding. This tour does not require a high level of off-roa­ding expe­ri­ence and skills. There will be parts of the tour where we will not be able to refuel for seve­ral days, so you should have a fuel tank (optio­nally with addi­tio­nal fuel tanks) that gua­ran­tees a range of 250 km wit­hout visi­ting a gas sta­tion. All major cre­dit cards (Visa, Mas­ter, Maes­tro, etc.) work in Mon­te­ne­gro (eit­her at ATMs or to pay for goods), and the offi­cial cur­rency in Mon­te­ne­gro is Euro. It is recom­men­ded to have at least a small amount of cash for small expen­ses in the moun­tain areas. The average dif­fi­culty of the tour is easy to medium. In prac­tice, this means that most of the time we will be on high qua­lity slo­pes with only the occa­sio­nal chance of mud. There will be parts of the rocky ter­rain where care should be taken not to damage important parts of the sub­soil (espe­ci­ally if we take short­cuts com­ple­tely off-road, it is neces­sary to watch out for rocks hid­den in tall grass). We won’t have deep water crossings on our route (so no snor­ke­ling is requi­red). Our ope­ra­tio­nal com­mu­ni­ca­tion during the tour takes place via CB radio. We look for­ward to this ulti­mate high­land tour with you. Let yours­elf be enchan­ted by the uni­que charm of this into­xi­ca­ting nature.

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