Our new tour leader Nenad loves getting off the beaten track whenever he's hiking in Montenegro, the stunning country from where he hails. The more remote the location, the more likely he is to be exploring it! We asked him about some possible new additions to our Montenegro walking holiday. He's come up with something pretty amazing - the mountain of Maganik in central Montenegro; a place seldom visited by Montenegrins, let alone tourists! Nenad writes: "Undiscovered Balkans is about travelling where only a select few people have ever been. If it is accessible only by foot, so much the better! If I had to make a list of the most spectacular locations for hiking in Montenegro, though, at the very top I would put a place with the highest level of wilderness; somewhere special that you would never find without local knowledge – like Maganik. I'd always been curious about Tresteni Vrh. It's a legendary rock massif on Mount Maganik, better known to foreign speleologists than local hikers, but notorious in our country as the site of a tragic plane crash in 1973. To reach it, you have to travel to the heart of the stunning Moraca canyon in Montenegro's mid-line of mountains. The day I went there to explore, we left our motorbike at a shepherd's “katun” hut with two goals - ascend the highest peak, then descend to the plateau I'd heard was filled with hundreds of spectacular natural rock sculptures. An Empire of Karst Tresteni Vrh is not one of those classic sharp mountain peaks. Its landscape is totally unreal - more like the backdrop to a video game where a huge plateau of karst rock opens up to gigantic, deep cracks and fissures, some of which lead to caves to explore. On this day, I'm
Our new tour leader Nenad loves getting off the beaten track whenever he’s hiking in Montenegro, the stunning country from where he hails. The more remote the location, the more likely he is to be exploring it! We asked him about some possible new additions to our Montenegro walking holiday. He’s come up with something
