If you climb up the Stara Planina, Prokletije, Rudnik, Jastrebac, Golija
and Cer mountains you might say you have reached the top of world since
all these peaks taken together are higher than Mount Everest. And all you
need to climb them is a pair of comfortable shoes.
Nature took great pains to bestow many hills and valleys to this country,
to sculpture the mountain chains, to chisel the canyons and the gorges.
If art takes after nature, then it is possible, on every slope in Serbia,
for art to be jealous of its master.
Every walk you take can end with an armload of flowers or herbs and a
basket of mushrooms or forest fruits.
Kopaonik and Tara never get time off for resting. In
spring and summer, you can enjoy tennis, horseback-riding, swimming,
mountain
climbing... If you do your climbing up in summer, do your climbing down
in winter, using the skis. The 100 square kilometers of verdant Kopaonik
turns into a modern ski center in winter.
Brezovica, a locality on the northen side of the Sara mountain, offers
skiing above the clouds, at more than 2,000 meters above sea level. Once
the skiers leave Brezovica, the
hunting and angling enthusiasts occupy it.
Prokletije, the Alps of the Southern Europe, has the highest, the
steepest
peaks in Serbia.
Divcibare, a plateau on the
Maljen mountain, is white throughout the year, half a year because of the
narcissuses, the other half because of the snow...
On the slopes Zlatibor, a large
recreation center, sports teams practice for strenuous competitions, while
the skiers show their skills on the tracks of Tornik. The Zlatibor village
of Sirogojno, a unique ethnic park in Serbia, famous for its knitters who,
for generations, pass down the ancient art of wool spinning and
knitting.
Have you ever tried the Stara Planina hard cheese, or walked down the
flowering valley of Goc?
Climb the peaks of abunndance and contrast. Climb the mountains of
Serbia...
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