Wet beautiful Tara

Today will once again not be the most successful hitchhiking day... After some reasonable time waiting and seeing hundreds of cars pass by, we get a ride out of Cacak (read Tchatchak), to Pozeda (read pogda, their should be a hat on the z) were it rains... After a hot tee we catch bus to Uzice (same, Ugize but i am not going to do a Serbian workshop now...) where we taste the very recommended Kompleta Lepinja, a fresh hot round bread sorta pizza like out of the owen, filled with kajmak (this creamy local cheese i can never get enough off) and cow meat. Tasty, very cheap and filling this is a must try local specialty.

After asking our way around we get to a tunnel where the road is heading through to Tara. The rain is now poring down and there are already almost 10 people waiting for a ride. A woman tells us there is a bus in a couple minutes to Tara, it turns out to be bullshit. Was it to get ride of us or a mistake... never mind, we are at the bus station and get a ticket to Kremna, the last place on the main road pretty close to our national park. The bus drives not along the main road but trough curvy roads in the mountains. The drive is shaky and curvy but the scenery is beautiful despite the rain.

Anyone wants to take a wet hitchhiker along??

Rural Serbia

Yeaaa rain!!!

Upon arrival, we go for a nice warm Turkish coffee you can feel we are somewhat higher in the mountains, it got real fresh. We buy a kisobran (umbrella:) and head to our park under the rain. We are singing in the rain, happy and in a positive state of mind despite the poor luck hitchhiking our way trough Serbia... Soon enough, a veterinarian picks us up and drives us some kilometers up the hill. The heat inside his car is on more boost to our motivation. And it will be needed since we walked a more hour under the rain, only slightly protected by the forest around. Again, everything around is beautiful and we don't mind the rain to much. But this will change as we get into a windy plain and learn from some locals that our destination is 17 more kilometers away...

beaa

The rare cars driving trough don't pick us up and and the first Sobe (room) refuses single night stays... Fortunately, once gain, Serbian hospitality (and maybe a bit of luck) saves us and we get to share the small, warm home of Dejan and Katarina.