I love OATs: Outdoors, Art & Travel
The Old Town of Bar (Stari Grad Bar) is blessed with a privileged location: up on a hill, close to the Adriatic Sea, and guarded by the imposing Mount Rumija. It’s easy to figure out why so many rulers battled over its control. From this cliff, located only four kilometres (2.5 miles) away from the …
Welcome to Lake Skadar, the biggest lake in the Balkans, a national park and a protected area surrounded by mountains. It’s one of Europe’s largest bird reserves. The lake is shared by Montenegro and Albania and it’s known as Lake Skadar (Skadarsko Jezero) in Montenegro, Lake Shkodra (Shkodër) in Albania, and Lake Scutari (its historical …
What are your most favourite places that you’ve been to?, I get asked a lot. One place always makes the list: Durmitor National Park in northwest Montenegro. It’s impossible to leave out this UNESCO World Heritage Site thanks to its stunning landscape composed of rugged peaks, pine forests, and lakes. I spent seven days in …
If one day I woke up inside the Groundhog Day movie and I had to choose one place to hike and wander around in a never ending loop I would choose the hiking trails of Durmitor National Park. The park is located in northwest Montenegro and is part of the Dinaric Alps. 25 hiking trails …
No other scenic road in Montenegro pulled more Oohs and Aahs from me than the Durmitor Ring (Durmitorski Prsten), one of the four “Panoramic Roads” traversing the country. With mountains that seem to be jagged with a giant blade, deep canyons, and tiny villages sitting on expansive meadows, the Durmitor Ring offers wonderful sightseeing and …
Surrounded by more pines than bees around a honeycomb, Black Lake (Crno Jezero) in northern Montenegro, is a sight to behold. It’s the largest and most visited of the 18 glacier lakes in Durmitor National Park. Why? First, it’s a stone throw away from Žabljak, the main town inside the national park. Which means it’s …
