The Balkans offers excellent opportunities for overlanders, 4wd touring and more adventurous road trips. As overland travellers based in Europe or passing through on the way to or from Europe, the Balkan states are a great place to explore, without going to far afield. You will experience very diverse cultural scenes and a decent amount of modern history and friendly people.
In our blog you will see that there are many routes through the region, our first trip was by road entering via Slovenia to Croatia to head to Serbia and onto Montenegro, before using the Croatian ferries to explore the Dalmatian coast.
On later tours we explored the area further either entering using ferries from Italy to Dubrovnik or leaving via ferries to Italy from Albania.
However you choose to explore the area, you are guaranteed to have an awesome experience, for a fraction of the cost of Western Europe. I’d suggest you get off the beaten track, travel slowly and see what happens.
The drive was not long from Jajce, but was a hot one. As we entered the city, we found it hard to navigate with our large scale map and the guide book’s city centre map. Wish the Garmin GPS was still working. Eventually managed to get onto a road that was shown on the map […]
Jajce is a UNESCO candidate and well worth a visit. It was our next stop on our short overland road trip in Bosnia-Herzegovina, on the way to Sarajevo. We were looking forward to seeing the Watermills and relaxing next to lake Plivsko Jezero before exploring the town tomorrow. Over the last few years of doing
Well we had a surprisingly quiet night. We thought we would be woken up, having seen and heard the action at the bar, but managed to sleep through. We packed up promptly and made for a café in Duga Resa. The plan was to have some coffee and find something for breakfast. Duga Resa is
We decided that today we needed to get cracking and head south. I would have loved to have stayed longer in Bovec, but the campsite was fully booked over the weekend, so we had to either find another site, or move on. Yesterday, we spent sometime trying to work out where to head, without driving
Whitewater rafting in Bovec, Slovenia on the Soča river.
Bovec is the perfect spot to relax on any Overland Trip travelling europe. Before your road trip
So tomorrow we depart for our next trip. Yet again I am nervous, this time we are once again unaccompanied, and heading to new territory. Why do people keep asking if we will be safe? We have spent the last two evenings getting stuff together, packing the boxes and making sure we are organised. What
I have been in touch by chance via Horizons Unlimited with a chap called Matthew over the last few months. He is planning on travelling to Albania at a similar time to us. Anyway via Matthew I have found this book which I thought I would recommend, about routes in Albania. The reason I like the book
Just been playing with the iPad iMovie app. Last year when we were passing through Serbia on our overlanding trip, we were following the GPS to go from the Studenica monastery to Durmitor, in Montenegro and ended up going along an unpaved gravel road. This as it turned out, was the foundation for a section
We continue our balkan overlanding journey to explore the area around the Plitvicka National Park in Croatia, where we discover the beautiful crystal clear waters and hiking trails.
DAY 22: SATURDAY 20 AUGUST 2011 Camping Costs: Camping Al Pez €26.80 – 1 night We were up, packed up and gone by 8.30hr! We had decided to miss out Venice as most of the campsites wanted a weeks booking, we only wanted to stay for 2 nights. Instead we were going to head for