The Bohemian Quarter is well known in Belgrade. It sits in the old part of the city. Around it are quiet, tree lined streets of older buildings, small cafes and local shops. Some of the buildings are quite dilapidated and great to shoot.
On the main pedestrian street in the Bohemian Quarter, the walls are painted to look like grand houses. Alongside them are smaller pieces of art, including this portrait.
Serbia is certainly great value for money coming from western Europe. We stopped for a Coffee and a Coke in the Bohemian Quarter and the price was very reasonable.
Driving through Serbia you stumble across small farms and haystacks everywhere you go.
Haystacks are a permanent feature in the Serbian countryside in late Summer. This field is just outside Tara national park to the south of Bajina Basta.
Dotted around the Tara-Bare area are numerous viewpoints. We decided to get a shot of the two of us in this one, looking north, over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Tara National Park is full of hills and pines, with the most dominant feature Zaovine Lake.
There are over 20 marked trails in the park, some more "marked" than others. This is trail no. 14, up a hill overlooking the village of Galine. It went almost vertically up the hill and was VERY difficult to follow, with only the occasional splodge of paint on a tree every 50 feet. We lost it on the way down but had both map and GPS so went (slightly hairy) cross country on the way back. A good hiking/sights map can be found in the tourist office at Mitrovac in the park.
After "mislaying" trail 14 on the way back down we came out overlooking the village of Galine and found a stunning view waiting for us.
This house in the Drina River, Bajina Basta, is a regular tourist attraction in the area. We sat down for dinner overlooking it and waited for the sun to set for this photo.
Our trip was ending and we headed back to Belgrade. As with everywhere we went in Serbia there were picture postcard views.

Photo Essay: A short break in Serbia

May 9, 2015

Many of us only know Serbia for one thing and that is the Kosovo conflict. While searching for somewhere to go for the August Bank holiday we stumbled across flights to Belgrade at the right time and (reasonably) right price… So we organised a 5 day trip out of it, at fairly short notice. The more we looked into Serbia the more we realised there was far more there than we ever dreamed of; a modern western capital, castles in the east, mountains and bears in the west.

We only had a short time so chose west and headed for Tara National Park, on the border with Montenegro. We certainly weren’t disappointed!

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