Leaving civilisation

This sunny day is the begining of a long serie of modified version of Pierpoljaks song "Pierpoljak" where after the chorus sings something like "Pierpoljak what are you doing, the plane is gona take off soon" he sings: "No, go ahead, i m staying here, i want to leave that crazy civilisation, live in nature, far from polution"


This song, besides remembering us both of our time at school, listening this on the bus, onm Tv, on radio stations or at home in our stereo (yes i did listen to this guy, but i belive he has done less ridiculous songs in his early days... :). Well besides this, it was very addapted to our hike to Durmitor, the national park in the north of Montenegro and we started adapting this song with my co-hitchhiker/trecker/camper Alain and sing about our trip to the park. So we where singing about leaving Podgorica, getting into wilderness and nature in the park, asking cars to stop and take us along, far from this crazy town...

Alain is almost my neighbour, he lives right next to Annecy! He is a funny guy, a good travel compagnon and this is the begining of fun times and some great adventures! For both of us it is the first time we try to hitchhike with an other guy. Thoght it might be a little more difficult but in fact a guy driving a 4x4 Yugo (funny Nelly, who kindly drove us to the city outskirts, told us we d see plenty of those in the parks...) rapidly pulls over. Vladan is a sculptor, about 50-60 years old, hel tells us about his work/passion/art and shows us his small book. He is an orthodox like many people around here and has a very nice philosophy of life. He also works as an art teacher in Belgrade and for this to has a very nice aproach i tought.
Speaking about his work, the various asignments, i asked him what was his craziest job. He laughts and say "tombs". He then tells us about this rich guy with some crazy ideas. The man wanted to be able to see arc angel Gabriel once he would be buried in his tomb... So he asked the skulpter to make an icon so it can be buried above him and that he can see it for eternity ! Our driver said that it would be not able to see it in the ground, the coffin and earth between them would hide the icon so the work was usless... The client said he had the solution to this! His cousin, working in Germany is selling paint and has this very special fluoerescent paint! Ok said Vladan, so before i do the sculpture, we do a test, we both get in the coffin, burie some piece of marbour painted with your paint above us and if we see the bloc, i do the sculpture! "Bastard!!" said the client, loosing the illusion of seeing his arcangel for eternity....

Vladan also made us visite an orthodox monastary on the road:

Maraca Monsatary

He then droped us in Mojcovac where we have a long avaited luch, a classic, burek and jogurt! cheap, nutritive, fat n tasty! After this meal we get to the road driving up to Zabljak (hat on the z, speaks jhabiak). This is the start of 70 kms on an almost desert road, few cars pass and half of them are taxis offering us there services the othere half locals offering us there taxi servises... Finally a local, hudge guy stop and want to driv away when we say zabljak, I manage to hold him back and explain to him we will get there "malo po malo" its a good thing if he can just help us for a couple kilometers, there is only one road anyway... So he drives us 5 kms...
He dropes us next to the place where a farmer is cuting his grass using his sickle. After 40 mins the first car drives by and... does not stop :) we eat "duo keks" some sort of local prince and keep on singing stupid verions of Pierpoljak and other songs. Good times but slight desparation in this spot:

Deserted road....

End of this epic jurney tomorrow :)