Peja is a small city in Western Kosovo near the Rugova Canyon. The city is located in a strategic position on Peja’s Lumbardh, a tributary of the White Drin to the east of the Accursed Mountains. The medieval city was possibly built on the ruins of a Roman Siparant. The city became...
This church and nunnery complex on the outskirts of Peja is a raw slice of Serbian Orthodoxy. Outside on the landscaped grounds, all is bright and colorful, but once inside the church it feels more like you’re within a dark cave with magnificent faded frescoes covering the walls and...
We spent one rainy and cold day in Rugova Canyon. It is a 25 kilometers long river canyon in the western part of Kosovo near the town of Peja. It was created by the water erosion and the removal of the glacier of Peja. In some spots, it’s very narrow and up to 1000 meters deep. The...
The whole afternoon we drove slowly around Mokra Gora Mountain (part of Rogozna range) on a steep, narrow, and mostly unpaved, totally deserted R221 road in the direction of Rugova Canyon. The road offers scenic views and still unspoiled nature. It has two peaks higher than 2000 meters...
We drove in cloudy weather around Kosovo’s largest and most beautiful lake. It was formed by the damming of the Ibar River, which flows into the lake. As a project of former Yugoslavia, the damming of the Ibar for the creation of a reservoir and thus the generation of hydroelectricity...
We couldn’t visit Kosovo last year because of the blockade at the Jarinje border. Now, on our way to Greece, it was a very smooth crossing with friendly procedures on both sides, but it took us more than 30 minutes to get insurance for our truck (KIB / 15 EUR / 14 days) because the guy...
Arad is located in Western Romania in the lower Mureş River valley close to the Hungarian border. The town traces its history back to the 11th century, it developed as a major trading post during the Turkish occupation, between 1551 and 1699. After 1699, the city was ruled by the Habsburg...
After visiting “Czech Banat” villages in Romania, we have decided to give also chance to the smallest Czech settlement in the Vojvodina district in Serbia. We met friendly Emanuel Veverica, who is very active in the promotion of the village and its development. He is working hard to...
Sitting in a grassy field are the ruins of Arača, a 13th-century Romanesque church which was once surrounded by an entire village, but after repeated razing across the hundreds of years of its existence now stands hauntingly in the middle of cornfields, with birds nesting in the old walls...
Kikinda is a city and the North Banat in the province of Vojvodina. From 1774 to 1874 Kikinda was the seat of the District of Velika Kikinda, an autonomous administrative unit of the Habsburg Monarchy. In 1893 Kikinda was granted the status of a city in Habsburg Monarchy and it became...