Balkan Tour In The Middle of Yugoslavia - 10 days

DAY 01
BELGRADE

Start of service. Arrival, welcome dinner. Overnight.

DAY 02
BELGRADE

Breakfast. Belgrade City tour, panoramic and walking sightseeing: Belgrade Fortress on the confluence of Sava and Danube River, with tennis courts where Belgrade-born tennis player Novak Djokovic used to train as a youngster. Visit to Saint Sava's Temple, biggest Orthodox Christian church in the world by volume. Visit to Yugoslavia History Museum and Mausoleum of Tito, president of Yugoslavia and leader of Movement of Non-Aligned Countries during Cold War. Lunch in national restaurant in downtown. Visit to Nikola Tesla Museum, that keeps more than 160000 original documents, devices and other personal items as original legacy of this Serbian - American inventor. Cruise on Sava and Danube River. Overnight in Belgrade.

DAY 03
BELGRADE - OPLENAC - ZLATIBOR

Breakfast at hotel. Transfer and visit to Topola Town and military base of Karadjordje or ”Black George in Turkish language”, who led the 1st Serbian uprising against the Turks in 1804, and established Serbian Royal Dynasty of Karadjordjevic. Visit to Oplenac Hill with the complex of Serbian Royal Dynasty: Museum of King Peter the 1st and Royal mausoleum in the Church of St. George. Lunch. Now from royalism to communism. Visit to memorial complex Kadinjaca, dedicated to WW2 partizans that establised Uzice Republic as the first bigger liberated teritory in Europe in the middle of Nazi conqred Europe in 1941. Visit to WW2 Partizan gun and ammounition factory in tunnels beneath Museum dedicated to Uzice Republic. Overnight on Zlatibor Mountain.

DAY 04
ZLATIBOR - DRVENGRAD - VISEGRAD - TREBINJE

Breakfast at the hotel and an check-out. Visit to ethno village Drvengrad (wooden city), built on Mecavnik hill by Serbian film director Emir Kusturica, who won twice Palm d'Or on Cannes film festival. What follows is a train ride through Sargan Eight, which is an old touristic railway from 1925. It is a narrow-gauge railway that passes through 22 tunnels, over 5 bridges, and overcome the altitude difference of 300 meters. Lunch on Drina River bank. Sightseeing of Visegrad Town, located on confluence of Rzav and Drina River, with Ottoman-era bridge over Drina River, built at 16th century, now on UNESCO list. We will also visit touristic site Andricgrad, built in memory of Nobel Prize winning writer Ivo Andric, for a novel about this bridge and story about Bosnian history, menthality and causes of all the problems. Visit to Tjentiste memorial monument of Sutjeska Battle in WW2, 20 meter high carved megalit sculptures. Overnight in Trebinje.

DAY 05
TREBINJE - DUBROVNIK - TREBINJE

Breakfast at hotel, sightseeing of beautiful small Town of Trebinje, with small fortified old town. Quick transfer to Dubrovnik, with sightseeing of Dubrovnik Town, dated from 7th century. Dubrovnik Fortress with massive stone walls and old town on the UNESCO list, with Franciscan monastery with Europe’s third oldest pharmacy, the Rector’s Palace and other sites. Lunch in Dubrovnik old town. Overnight in Trebinje.

DAY 06
TREBINJE - POCITELJ - BUNA - MOSTAR - SARAJEVO

Breakfast at hotel, checkout and a Sightseeing of Pocitelj Town, small fortified medieval town from 16th century, with elements of Ottoman and Mediterranean architecture, located on Neretva River. Lunch on Buna River Spring, that is one of the biggest and most beautiful springs in Europe. Sightseeing of Mostar City, named after the bridge built on the Neretva River by the Turkish Ottomans in the 16th century, on UNESCO world heritage list. Overnight in Sarajevo.

DAY 07
SARAJEVO - TRAVNIK - JAJCE - PLIVA

Breakfast at hotel. Hotel check out and Sightseeing of Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, founded in 15th century. Because of its traditional cultural and religious diversity, with Islam, Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Judaism coexisting there for centuries, it was sometimes called the "Jerusalem of the Balkans". Follows visit to Travnik Town, former seat of Ottoman Turkish viziers (Bosnian governors) from 17th century, with 16th century fortress, and idyllic bridges over Lasva River. Lunch on the riverside. Visit to Jajce Town, first built in the 14th century as the residence of Bosnian Kings in medieval ages on the confluence of Pliva and Vrbas River with beautiful Pliva Waterfalls beneath the very down-town. Overnight in West Bosnia.

DAY 08
BOSNIA - PLITVICE - ZAGREB

Breakfast at hotel and, after check out, Sightseeing of Plitvice national park with 16 lakes bound together by magic waterfalls. Lunch. Sightseeing of Zagreb, capital of Croatia, with visit to the old Upper town and downtown: St. Mark Church, Stone Gate, St. Stephen’s Cathedral and down town. Overnight in Zagreb.

DAY 09
ZAGREB - PODGARIC - ZASAVICA - BELGRADE

Breakfast at the hotel and check out. Visit to stunning concrete Podgaric Monument, that commemorates WW2 Serbian communist’s uprising against occupying Nazi German and Croatian Ustase fascist forces. Visit to Zasavica nature reserve, with picturesque biodiversity mosaic of forests, meadows, river banks, rare plants and animals. Photo-safari cruise in Zasavica waterflow, the pasture, the flooded forests. Special lunch, stew made of old type of pork called Mangulitza, or beef called Podolsko Govece that were common in Serbia in 19th century. Sightseeing of Sirmium archaeological site with preserved Roman imperial palace. Sirmium City was one of 4 capitals of Roman Empire during period of tetrarchy in 3rd century. Drive to Belgrade. Overnight in Belgrade.

DAY 10
BELGRADE

Breakfast at hotel and check out, airport transfer. Departure. End of services.

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