Transfagarasan Light in Serbia

After our stop in Lepenac we approached the mountains and realized that the roads are winding on the hillsides and have pretty much the same kind of curves that on the lovely Transfagarasan in Romania! The road took us up to a skiresort – which naturally was closed for the season – and then down on the other side heading towards Montenegro. We only made it to Novi Pazar before it got dark so we found a hotel there and went out for some food. Strange place though, lots of people all over but the town still doesn’t really live. Can it be because they don’t serve alcohol here huh? I wanted a glass of wine to my dinner but had to stick to water! 😦 Well they had wine at the hotel though.

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Stacks of hay, seen all over in this area, also in Romania and Bulgaria

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Just another stop by the side of the road

On this cliff there is a cemetary, houses in the valley

On our way up

Love these curves! 🙂

My Lumix ran out of power so I had to use my iPhone camera but the pics turns out pretty well.

Almost there

At the top at the ski resort. This almost ready built hotel gave me a strange association to the Overlook Hotel in the movie The Shining. It got accentuated because there were no people here, only a few carpenters.

The picture doesn’t reveal how high up in the mountains we are but the altitude is actually 1780 meters right here according to Jan’s GPS.

Feels distant with snow right now…

Wish I hade a wider wide angle lens — this scenery stretched at least 180 degrees!!

Curvy roads

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So nice

We found a nice hotel very central in town. It was probably very fancy when is was built but now it is a little worn out but the rooms are nice and clean. We asked if they had a garage for the bikes which they did, the “garage” is actually the hotels lobby!! Felt a little strange to roll in the bikes on a marble floor through fancy glass doors… oh well 🙂

Serbian dish for dinner.

Another wedding at hotels we stay at! The same thing happened in Poland too. The whole restaurant were booked for this private event and people were dancing and dancing and it seemed like they played the same song for hours…

So we ended up in the “bar” at the hotel instead! Only men, talking, smoking and watching text-tv!