Đerdap National Park is also known as the Iron Gates of the Danube. Gorges, canyons, river valleys, and over a thousand caves of extraordinary beauty are hidden on the right bank of the river, from the Golubac fortress to the ancient fort of Diana. The deepest, largest, and most...
Lepenski Vir is one of the largest and most significant prehistoric archeological sites from the Stone Age (entrance 500 RSD). It is located on the right bank of the Danube in the Djerdap gorge (The Iron Gates of the Danube). The rich cultural layer reveals the traces of a highly...
The Golubac Fortress (entrance 600 to 1200 RSD) is located on the right bank of the Danube, 4 kilometers downstream of a nowadays settlement. It is situated on high cliffs, on the very entrance to The Iron Gates. It is cut into a rock which acted as an obstacle to enemies attacking from...
Evocatively named after its shimmering surface, Silver Lake in Serbia’s east was for us a good stop on the way to Đerdap National Park. The 14 kilometers long and 13 meters deep, oxbow-shaped lake was created by damming (1971) an arm of the Danube and is well-populated with fish. It...
We have crossed borders to Serbia like a Speedy Gonzales, we made it through both immigration and customs controls within 10 minutes. After the border, we stopped at Vršac to buy the diesel (162,90 RSD / liter), Telenor sim cards (500 RSD / 10 GB / 15 days), and some food. Later, in the...
We made a short stop on the outskirts of Timișoara, where on a 17 hectares area lies the Banat Village Museum (entrance 5 ROL). The richness and diversity of rural civilization in the region had been noted ever since the eighteenth century by Western travelers. Multiculturalism is one of...
Timișoara, the largest city in western Romania, lies along the canalized Bega River. Over the years, Timișoara has been influenced by many cultures. The Romans used it as an important crossroads fortress until the Tatars destroyed it in the 13th century. Conquered by Turkish armies in...
We have parked on the banks of Danube in the village Coronini, from where it took us just a few minutes ride on our scooter on a good paved road to reach Sfânta Elena, which is the best known of the six Czech villages in the Banat region (could be easily reached also by truck). About...
Today we planned to visit Ravensca – one of six Czech-inhabited villages in Romania’s Banat. We have parked near the gasoline station at Liubcova, where according to Google starts the unpaved road to the village. We took our scooter, the first few kilometers we drove on an...
The ethnic Czech villages of the Romanian Banat – today home to around 2,000 inhabitants – are a unique cultural phenomenon. They are located in the mountains above the Danube Gorge and are surrounded by populations of Serb and Romanian origin. The villages’ years of isolation have helped...