Let me present a small tour through western Balkans, starting and ending in Croatia. I concentrated on roads and motorways, but I'll also put some pictures of sights along the way in this beautiful region. I have around 1200 pictures and I have to choose the best and resize them, so the report will be in several parts, starting with Croatia. Please don't mind if some pictures are not totally horizontal, I didn't have time to rotate them, and it's difficult to take a perfect shot while moving in the car.

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We start off in Croatia, near Zadar, with three pictures at the Marune service area at the Adriatic exit of the Sv. Rok tunnel.

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Continuing along the A1 and leaving it at its end, Šestanovac near Makarska.

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It just seems like East Adriatic tour.

BTW Where did you get the maps?

D39, the road connecting A1 and D8 ("Jadranska magistrala" - Adriatic coastal road). For more info take a look at www.viamichelin.com (near Makarska).

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We contionue along the D8:

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It just seems like East Adriatic tour.

BTW Where did you get the maps?

Yeah, but it's not only along the Adriatic, so it can be called western Balkans... The maps are from Viamichelin... :)

We pass by the construction site of the highway that will connect port of Ploče with the A1.

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Continuing along.

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Construction site of the bridge Croatia-Croatia (Pelješac bridge).

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Pelješac side:

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And finally approaching the Croatian-B&H border at the place where Croatia is cut in two pieces for a few kilometers:

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A map.

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Welcome to Bosnia&Herzegovina:

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After around five minutes, we're back in Croatia:

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The border crossing is a kilometer or two after the border.


On the way to Dubrovnik:

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What a marvellous pics, you had the best weather imaginable.

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Approaching Dubrovnik and the Dubrovnik (Dr. Franjo Tuđman) bridge:

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Here you would go off the D8 if you went to Dubrovnik:

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But we continue to the south:

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Leaving Dubrovnik behind:

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And we come to the charming town of Cavtat:

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After a break in Cavtat, continuing south, through the southernmost part of Croatia, Konavle:

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And we reach Croatia - Montenegro border:

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Montenegro coming soon to the computers near you :)

In the meantime:

Cavtat (http://www.croatia.hr/English/Destinacije/Destinacija.aspx?idDestination=29)

Dubrovnik (http://www.croatia.hr/English/Destinacije/Destinacija.aspx?idDestination=40)

Makarska (http://www.croatia.hr/English/Destinacije/Destinacija.aspx?idDestination=76)


Croatian tourist board (http://www.croatia.hr/English/Home/Naslovna.aspx)

really beautiful scenery and pics. Well done! :cheers:

I wish highways here had 130km/h speed limits but we have the biggest speed nazis in the world. :ohno:

Stunning pics snupix :applause: the weather was great...:okay:
can't wait to see rest of them ;)

Wow! Great pictures! Now this is what I call a holyday!

An Holy day or holiday? :D

Oops :lol: :nuts:

WOW, supper stuff Snupixc, awesome pics 10/10 :okay: :cheers: :)

I am looking forward to your updates :) :cheers:

Montenegro


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Unfortunately, it's already been dark so the pictures through Herceg Novi are not good. This is what you first see when entering Montenegro from Croatia:

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Through Herceg Novi

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Snupix, I must agree with everyone else, this is some fu*king awsome stuff in every aspect! :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

What kind of camera?


BTW in Macedonia (judging by your map), it seems that you didnt take the main road between Ohrid and Resen, but insted have taken the montanous road through Mount Galicica :rock:

Realy eagar to see the rest of your pics! :okay:

The beach of Jaz; here's where Budva hosts music concerts (The Rolling Stones, Madonna etc...)

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Riviera:

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BTW in Macedonia (judging by your map), it seems that you didnt take the main road between Ohrid and Resen, but insted have taken the montanous road through Mount Galicica :rock:

Realy eagar to see the rest of your pics! :okay:

Thanx :)

Exactly, after sleeping in Oteševo I took the road through Mt. Galičica with fabulous views to the Ohrid lake... We'll get there. :)

Camera I have used is Nikon D80. :cheers:

Welcome to Budva, Montenegro's most beautiful coastal town I visited (haven't been to Kotor, though):

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Like from the James Bond movie http://zeljeznice.net/forum/images/smiles/icon_mrgreen.gif

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Continuing along the coastal road, views from the car:

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Sveti Stefan, unfortunately closed to public:

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Sveti Stefan and Budva in the background:

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With the road:

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Montenegro has excellent tourist signage on all the roads:

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Tunnel Sozina (road from Podgorica) - coastal road intersection:

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To Podgorica:

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Just before Bar, on the left the famous Beograd - Bar railway line:

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Amazing pics snupix!! Montenegro is beautifull, waiting for the next part :cheers: :)

Entering Bar:

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And passing it by:

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Between Bar and Ulcinj:

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And finally a few pics around Ulcinj:

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Notice the donkey :)

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And we're leaving Montenegro for now at Sukobin/Muriqan border crossing to Albania. Some pics along the way:

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Next: Albania

Beautiful pics snupix, looks like you had quite an adventure!:cheers:


The beach of Jaz; here's where Budva hosts music concerts (The Rolling Stones, Madonna etc...)

You're very much up to date;)

Welcome to Budva, Montenegro's most beautiful coastal town I visited (haven't been to Kotor, though):

:lol:

Snupix :applause::applause:

What a stunning photos :cheers: I am speechless :drool::master:

:lol:

Am I wrong about Budva? :)

Welcome to Albania!

First impressions...

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Shkodër fortress

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Crossing the Bunë (Bojana) river:

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The road Shkodër - Tiranë

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"Eso" :lol:

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Near Lezhë

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Entering Tiranë

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The road from Tiranë to Durrës

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Not only Egypt and Bosnia have pyramids :lol:

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Entering Durrës

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Some impressions from Durrës

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Entering Tiranë from Durrës

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Some shots from Tirana, before we continue south:

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The university

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Train station

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From Durrës to Fier

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This is signed as motorway, but it's more an expressway with roundabouts in a few places:

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Surroundings

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They continue to bulid the expressway to the South, I guess it's a part of the Adriatic - Ionian motorway from Slovenia to Greece, but unfortunately this will obviously not be a real motorway:

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Fier

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Fier to Vlorë and beyond

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Vlorë

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And now the most spectacular part, over Llogara to Dhërmi beach :)

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And after this curve...

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...faboulous view to the Ionian!

Here it is...

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This is funny, in Croatian it would mean something like "Don't go further with your car" :) And this is the place where, as you can see, the road becomes much worse, but not for long.

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Dhërmi beach

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WOW :master: :master: :master:

Trully great pics snupix, looking forward to the rest :okay:

BTW do you know roughly how many KM's you did and how many hours (just the driving)

WOW :master: :master: :master:

Trully great pics snupix, looking forward to the rest :okay:

BTW do you know roughly how many KM's you did and how many hours (just the driving)

It was about 3200 kms, going from Rijeka and to Rijeka using A1 nad A6 in Croatia, and the average speed was 55 km/h, which makes roughly 58 hours of driving :)

From Dhërmi to Saranda

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A beautiful stop by the road:

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Last view to Dhërmi beach:

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Fantastic scenery

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Vuno:

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The road is being rebuilt and widened all the way long, with some parts still in a bad shape:

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Beaches along the way:

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Borsh beach:

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Welcome to Saranda!

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Obviously an international ferry port

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And finally the road from Saranda to the SH4 Kakavië (Greek border) - Gjirokaster - Fier - Durrës and the SH4 to the Greek border itself.

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Just before the border:

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Last view back to Albania:

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Next: Greece

Welcome to Greece

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A bit too much information...

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Neápoli

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Motorway A29 being built between Siátista and ???

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A29

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A2 direction Thessaloniki

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A27 direction Florina

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And the last few kms of Greece:

Florina

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Next: Macedonia

greeat pictures man....I am looking forward to your update.....THats my dream tour lol

great pics man.!!!

Amazing pics, indeed.:cheers::banana: I went this summer to corfu on A2.
Why didn't you prefer Neapoli-A2-Florina insted of Ioannina-GR2-A2-Florina?
Looking for your update!

Amazing pics, indeed.:cheers::banana: I went this summer to corfu on A2.
Why didn't you prefer Neapoli-A2-Florina insted of Ioannina-GR2-A2-Florina?
Looking for your update!

Well, no real reason, it seemed (and it turned out so) that this road was very scenic and nice!

nice one snupix, I really liked Albanian landscape and coastal towns, glad to see things are improving there, Dures looks really nice :) :okay:

Excellent pics, best report by far :)

I also think you made the best chioce. It seems to be a scenic road indeed.:cheer:
Until Neapoli did it have serious hairpins or tight curves?

Welcome to Macedonia!

We ride through Bitola, unfortunately it's starting to get dark so the pictures are of a lower quality.

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Bitola - Ohrid, very good road with nice speed limits (100km/h) :)

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Motorway A29 being built between Siátista and ???

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Maybe a vertical axis of Egnatia motorway :dunno:

Nice photos, btw :okay:

Until Neapoli did it have serious hairpins or tight curves?

Not really, the road was really good and very scenic, especially after Konitsa. And it's in a good shape with very little traffic. :)

Great pics Arno. :applause: I really enjoyed watching them. :okay:

Greek highways are stunning!

nice one snupix, I really liked Albanian landscape and coastal towns, glad to see things are improving there, Dures looks really nice :) :okay:

exactly my opinion mic ;)
really stunning pictures. :applause: btw...greek roads look nice. they look totally western european :lol: :lol:

We take off to the left at Prespan lake direction Oteševo.

Prespan lake

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And now the beautiful road over Galičica that will take us to lake Ohrid

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Lake Ohrid

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Stunning views. In the background Pogradec in Albania, nearer Sv. Naum monastery in Macedonia:

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The route

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Visiting the St. Naum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveti_Naum) monastery


PR Albania :lol: Some signs really need to be changed :)

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St. Naum church

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Along the Ohrid lake

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City of Ohrid

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Btw. Macedonia has (okay, after Croatian ones) the prettiest girls in Europe :)

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Okay, now back on road - to Skopje

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Gostivar - Skopje

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Entering Skopje

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New signage:

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The train station destroyed in the earthquake in 1963, now a museum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje

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A few shots of Skopje

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And we continue towards Priština, last couple of shots in Macedonia:

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Next: Kosovo

Definetely one of the best tours i've seen, You must be very patient to blur each and every licence plate but then you missed one in Skopje and then removed it :lol:

Regarding girls well all i'll say is Croatian chicks rock :D

Definetely one of the best tours i've seen, You must be very patient to blur each and every licence plate but then you missed one in Skopje and then removed it :lol:

Regarding girls well all i'll say is Croatian chicks rock :D

:lol: Yeah, I don't want to make trouble to anyone, for example if a wife recognizes her husband in a car with some other woman :lol:

Welcome to Kosovo

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Surroundings

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In Kosovo there is a big lack of electricity

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Welcome to Prishtinë/Priština

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Prom Prishtinë/Priština to Peć/Peja

Bill Clinton boulevard

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35 km/h :lol:

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Peć/Peja

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Patriarchate of Peć (Pećka patrijaršija) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C4%87ka_patrijar%C5%A1ija)

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Now we'll climb back from Kosovo to Montenegro (Kula). Map:

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Montenegro vol. 2 :)

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Again, the famous BG-Bar railway

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And now we're on the main road between Serbia and Montenegro that goes through spectacular Morača canyon

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Great pics Arno. :applause: I really enjoyed watching them. :okay:

Greek highways are stunning!

Tnx everybody :)

Yay, Arnavutluk has no motorways but nice highway infrastructure.
The red band on plates reminds me red band replacers in Turkey.

And why the hell they has LOW speed limits?

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Welcome to Podgorica

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Now we're proceeding to Nikšić and then back to Croatia over Bosnia & Herzegovina, but before, we'll stop at the fascinating Ostrog monastery

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The road up is scary :)

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But it's worth it.

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We proceed from Nikšić to the MNE-BH border, unfortunately some fire is burning...

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And welcome (again) to Bosnia&Herzegovina!

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Passing by Trebišnjica river

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And passing through Trebinje

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E27 ???

WTF???

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E27 ???

WTF???



Don't know, Michelin says E65 :dunno:

No signs in Latin script... Also, no sign for Dubrovnik...

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On the way to Croatia

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And the last few kms before Croatia, the coast and lights you see is Croatia, but we're still in B&H. Here is where we have a problem with building the A1, because HR is really narrow here... :)

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And the last picture from B&H. Župa Dubrovačka in Croatia is where you see the lights, but the place where the photo was taken and the mountain are in Bosnia&Herzegovina. From these positions our neighbours used to bomb Dubrovnik region, you can see how vulnerable it was.

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:master: Bravo!

I'm speechless. This is the best thread ever!

And welcome back to Croatia, but this is still not the end :)

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Two more shots of Dubrovnik in the morning Sun

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With the D8 road

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:master: Bravo!

I'm speechless. This is the best thread ever!

Thanx :)

Again, Dubrovnik/F. Tuđman bridge

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For some time we go back the same way as we came at the beginning.

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At the Neretva river, a lot of fruit sellers:

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Komin

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Great stuff snupix. Thanks for sharing.

Snupix excellent pictures!! Some you took from Vlora and Llogara look to be the same pictures I took a couple of weeks myself over there ;) (link to my album here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12817974@N04/ )

:) same picture as yours
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One question though about your excellent pictures...How do you take a picture from inside a car and make it look so good?? I guess for starters...a clean windshield (mine was covered in waterspots)...but maybe you have some good technique...and editing...to make them look so good?? (as in unhindered by the glass inside the car and the movement)

Any tips for us amatours??

Bridge over Neretva river

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Construction of the A1 - Port of Ploče road:

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Ploče Junction:

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Extremely enjoyable thread, thanks! :)

Snupix excellent pictures!! Some you took from Vlora and Llogara look to be the same pictures I took a couple of weeks myself over there ;) (link to my album here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12817974@N04/ )

:) same picture as yours


One question though about your excellent pictures...How do you take a picture from inside a car and make it look so good?? I guess for starters...a clean windshield (mine was covered in waterspots)...but maybe you have some good technique...and editing...to make them look so good?? (as in unhindered by the glass inside the car and the movement)

Any tips for us amatours??

Hehe, it's a great road, really fascinating scenery. I'll take a look into your album.

About the pictures, first of all I tried to have the windshield as clean as possible all the time, but more important, I used a polarizer all the time to remove reflections on the windshield, which was more or less done well. Sometimes I pushed the camera out of the window to make a better picture...

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About editing, it's just resizing, changing the gamma a little bit, and sharpening, and that's it, the same process automatically on all the pics.

Now these are the last two pics on the D8 road before we turn inland behind Biokovo mountain and on the construction sites of the A1 (see the map above).

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The last part a bit later... :cheers:

Stunning pictures. Thank you. :cheers:

Don't know, Michelin says E65 :dunno:

Maybe because of the old numeration system.
Istanbulites still call TEM as E5.

:applause: nice trip :applause:

Spectacular pics and thread:cheers:

What a fantastic thread! :okay: Thank you for this, Snupix. Since I'm very interested in roads, this was extremely interesting for me.

I have a few questions for you, if you don't mind.

1. Could you tell us what car were you driving? I know it's a bit off-topic, but I'm really interested.
2. How do you manage to drive and take such a good photos?

Again, thank you for such a great thread! :cheers:

I also have a question; where did you spend the night?

What a GREAT thread and GREAT pics :speechless:
A few questions:
- did you need visa for Kosovo, Montenegro and Albania?
- was it difficult to get into Kosovo?
Thanks :cheers:

Awesome pictures snoop!! you never dissapoint me dude!!!!

just two questions: do you guys from Croatia need a visa for Albania?? (cuz we do :bash: ), and why only passing by thru BiH :(

in all, awesome as always snoop!!! :okay:

What a fantastic thread! :okay: Thank you for this, Snupix. Since I'm very interested in roads, this was extremely interesting for me.

I have a few questions for you, if you don't mind.

1. Could you tell us what car were you driving? I know it's a bit off-topic, but I'm really interested.
2. How do you manage to drive and take such a good photos?

Again, thank you for such a great thread! :cheers:

Thanx :cheers1:

1. Everything on this route was doable with any type of car, all routes were paved, except only the constructions sites which look like in the pictures... You'd just need a car wash after the Dhërmi - Saranda route, but these are to see in Albania every 10m :)

2. I wasn't driving :)

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Awesome pictures snoop!! you never dissapoint me dude!!!!

just two questions: do you guys from Croatia need a visa for Albania?? (cuz we do :bash: ), and why only passing by thru BiH :(

in all, awesome as always snoop!!! :okay:

No, no visas for Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo. We need Visas only for Ukraine for some dumb reason :ohno:

I also have a question; where did you spend the night?

Which night? :)

It was camping sites (none in Albania), hotels and friends. :cheers:

None of the camps or hotels were fancy, but it was relatively cheap and just okay :)

Btw. Macedonia has (okay, after Croatian ones) the prettiest girls in Europe :)

Hahaha well you're welcome to join us :D
Anyway very nice tour, cheers!

What a GREAT thread and GREAT pics :speechless:
A few questions:
- did you need visa for Kosovo, Montenegro and Albania?
- was it difficult to get into Kosovo?
Thanks :cheers:

We didn't need a visa anywhere, and the easiest of all borders was to get to Kosovo, it was like it was between HR and SLO in the good old days...

Yeah btw. the Albanians charge €10 per person to get into Albania, and in Montenegro you need to buy an eco-sticker for the car for €10 which is valid until next summer.

Awesome pictures snoop!! you never dissapoint me dude!!!!

just two questions: do you guys from Croatia need a visa for Albania?? (cuz we do :bash: ), and why only passing by thru BiH :(

in all, awesome as always snoop!!! :okay:

No visa (except the €10), and this time the goal was Albania so Bosnia&Herzegovina I'll do some other time more thouroughly... :)

Although I did a trip Slavonski Brod - Split over Sarajevo and Mostar 2 months ago, but I didn't have my camera with me... :(

And now we're going to the inlands of Dalmatia, behind Biokovo mountain:

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My fav:

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Vrgorac

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Another one that I like:

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Construction of the A1 near Ravča

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Unusual clouds

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New section of the D62 under the motorway

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Some very old signage

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A1 viaduct

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Probably a service area and a viewpoint on the A1

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We continue towards Zagvozd

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Some deviation after Zagvozd

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Finally in Šestanovac, wher the A1 ("Dalmatina") currently ends

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And back on the same place where we have a picture from in the first (or first few) posts...

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Few shots of the A1

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This is why this motorway is so important - industry and business zones are starting to grow along the A1:

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Tunnel Konjsko

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A typical service area:

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Under Trtar by Šibenik

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:applause::applause::applause:

:master:

:cheers2:

Normally, this would be a bad situation... but in our case it was a winning situation... in the next (and last) part of this journey...


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...because we got a chance to take this (white) magnificent road above Sv. Rok tunnel (with 7km queue before it) over Mali Alan pass and Tulove grede on the Velebit mountain...

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View over the Sv. Rok tunnel south portal:

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The same service area (Marune) where we began our photoset:

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Or if you prefer

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We continue up

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Again, from a different perspective

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spectacular photos - amazing trip :applause:

:cheers2:

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Unfortunately, this was a heavy battles area and many Croats defending our country died here...

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Aaaand, this would be it, from Sv. Rok to Sv. Rok in 6 days, exactly on the holiday of St. Rok :)

Here is a picture for the end, taken from the road to Mali Alan. Hope you enjoyed! :cheers:

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Very nice, snupix! I planned to do such a trip myself... but now, there is no need for that! Thanks!
I immagine you have ZG Croatian plates. Was it scary to get through some places... for exemple Trebinje?

Motorway A29 being built between Siátista and ???

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Between Siatista and Kastoria towards Albanian border. Than you go to Korce in Albania and than to Tirana via Elbasan. A Greek motorway from Grevena via Trikala to Lamia is going to connect Tirana and Athens over the shortest route. So, also Croatia and Athens. It is shorter than via the Adriatic-ionian route.

Very nice, snupix! I planned to do such a trip myself... but now, there is no need for that! Thanks!
I immagine you have ZG Croatian plates. Was it scary to get through some places... for exemple Trebinje?

Do it yourself, it's really worth it :)

p.s. pogledaj PM...

Between Siatista and Kastoria towards Albanian border. Than you go to Korce in Albania and than to Tirana via Elbasan. A Greek motorway from Grevena via Trikala to Lamia is going to connect Tirana and Athens over the shortest route. So, also Croatia and Athens. It is shorter than via the Adriatic-ionian route.

So I thought. But it seems a bit early to build that since Albania is still far from building that motorway, and the road between Korce and Pogradec is, I guess, not perfect.

What an amazing effort. One of the best threads that I've viewed in a long time (one that pertains to Balkan motorways). Great scenery and landscape. It seems that Albania has the worst roads, and seeing sheep and cows on main roads is absolutely shocking, same with that donkey in Montenegro. :D It's good that situation in AP KiM is improving as well.
To fully accomplish your Balkan journey, hopefully we'll get to see another trip of yours more eastwards (Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia). ;)

PS. Don't make me go back looking for it, what camera did you use again?

He used a Nikon D80 if I'm not mistaken.

What an amazing effort. One of the best threads that I've viewed in a long time (one that pertains to Balkan motorways). Great scenery and landscape. It seems that Albania has the worst roads, and seeing sheep and cows on main roads is absolutely shocking, same with that donkey in Montenegro. :D It's good that situation in AP KiM is improving as well.
To fully accomplish your Balkan journey, hopefully we'll get to see another trip of yours more eastwards (Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia). ;)

PS. Don't make me go back looking for it, what camera did you use again?

Tnx... I'd like to do a trip to the East. I'm especially interested in RO&BG infrastructure (bc. Serbian infra. looks similar like the rest of the exYu so i know what to expect). And never been there, so...

Albania has the worst roads, but I was really surprised how good they are actually, much much much better than I expected. It's really developing fast and once they finish the main roads, tourism industry will definitely boom, especially in the beautiful south... We have to remember, 15 years ago they had nothing, absolutely nothing.

Sheep and cows were fun, but it wasn't really problematic or dangerous... And it happened only a few times, the ones caught on the camera...

The camera was Nikon D80 + Nikkor 18-70 lens, except on the last pictures from above Sv. Rok, that one was Panasonic FZ18 :)

:cheers:

great tour adventure snupix

do you have any update about peljesac bridge project,is ti really finaly accepted or it is still in the doubtfull process ?

Such an amazing journey. Really great effort....
Croatia is so beautiful...its definitely on my 'to visit' list really soon....
Well done..im speechless :D

I hope to see a report like this from RO-BG Snupix (as you said you intend to do), you'll have lots and lots of gorgeus places to shoot with your camera. :cheers:

Thank you Snupix for sharing these wonderfull expirience with us.Judging by your photos your journey was really worth to take.Scenery is really amazing and road infrastructure is much better than I expected.
At the end what are your overall impresions about the countries and people you've visited?
PS What are prices?Where was costliest and where cheapest?

PPS Great report once again :okay::applause::cheers1:

Thank you all :)

I was mostly impressed with Albania because they're really obviously moving forward (ofcourse, it's still one of the poorest european countries and you can see that). I think the problem is the mentality of the people, because I've seen several times people throwing trash out of the car (plastic bottles) through the window - and Albania would look so much more better if it were cleaner... Nevertheless, all the Albanians I met were really one of the nicest people I know.

About the prices, they are, let's say, 20% cheaper than Croatia, which is more than you would expect... I mean the prices in cafes and so... Don't know about the food and the rest. Rooms seem to be cheap.

And yeas, Albania drives very good cars, better than other countries (exc. GR), it's probably because they have cars only in the last 15 yrs so there are no old cars on the roads... And Mercedes is the official brand :)

The most expensive on the trip was definitely Croatia and Greece, but I haven't stayed long in Greece to know in detail... Cheapest... Hard to say, maybe Macedonia, but they're all close.
I did eat barbecue (roštilj/skara) in a local bar/restaurant in Macedonia near the Alb. border for a very good price - two meals (ćevapi/chicken and so), 3 beers, coca-cola, salad, pommes frittes, all for around 9€.. But well, that was in the village...

For example, a cocktail in a fancy cafe in Skopje costs around 4€, which is more than 2 times cheaper than the ones in HR... And so...

P.s. we didn't pay motorways in Greece, I guess they're free?

great tour adventure snupix

do you have any update about peljesac bridge project,is ti really finaly accepted or it is still in the doubtfull process ?

From the latest informations I've heard in the media, the bridge is being built with the schedule as planned (2012). We'll see.

Great, amazing pics Arno. :bow: :master:
I really enjoyed watching them ;)

Fantastic Snupix, thanks! :master: :master: :cheers:

P.s. we didn't pay motorways in Greece, I guess they're free?
The Egnatia Motorway hasn't yet tolls, but until the end of the project there will be 13 toll stations across 670km of the main axis (and the circa 300km of the vertical axes).The southernmost Athens-Thessaloniki motorway has toll-stations, but from what I saw from your map you passed only from a small part of Greece (btw, loosing the city of Ioannina was kind of mistake :D).

No, no visas for Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo. We need Visas only for Ukraine for some dumb reason :ohno:

And for Russia?

We dont need for Macedonia or Kosovo, but we need for Albania :lol:

Ye.. Russia as well, but they are approved instantly if i'm not wrong.

Krasne slike! Beautiful pictures! I cannot wait to do a similair trip on my own.

Amazing landscapes, perfect photo travelogue – it should be published as a guide or something

Yay, Arnavutluk

Who the hell are the "Arnavutluk"?

And for Russia?

We dont need for Macedonia or Kosovo, but we need for Albania :lol:

Ye.. Russia as well, but they are approved instantly if i'm not wrong.

generally for Russia we need visas, but if you go with plane from Zagreb to Moscow and don't intend to go out of city, you don't need it, guarantee letter is enough

bombastic thread! :nuts:

every country has it's own wonderful landscapes... :)

Arnoooo . . . :nuts: :nuts: :cheers:

Bravooooo :banana: :banana:

So I thought. But it seems a bit early to build that since Albania is still far from building that motorway, and the road between Korce and Pogradec is, I guess, not perfect.

Tirana-Elbasan-Pogradec-Korca-Greek border is not planned as a motorway in Albania. It operates as a highway, somewhere with 3 lanes. But the road between Korca and Pogradec is still in bad shape, although an upgrade is going to be made soon.
Here is a map of the Greek motorways: in red are operating motorways, in green motorways u/c (the part you show in your picture is almost ready to be commissioned).
Another motorway in Greece between the Egnatia (A2) is going to be built via Kalampaka, Trikala to Lamia (in greeen: the so-called Central Greek motorway).
http://files.homepagemodules.de/b211118/f11734815t508006p7497992n1.jpg

Nice trip, nice adventure, great pics !
Excellent thread !
:applause::applause::applause:
:cheers::cheers::cheers:

Who the hell are the "Arnavutluk"?

Depends who the hell is Turkki.

great tour...too bad some of u road freaks take pictures of roads mostly :)

stari, svaka ti dala...:)

@Seagull
The part of Maliakos in PATHE (center of the map) is nearly constructed (most of it is already used) and it's one of the most spectacular so far (click 1 (http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/2851/06042008co6.jpg), 2 (http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/9659/06042008003om4.jpg) , 3 (http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7930/06042008004ae0.jpg)). Also the most recent update of Egnatia's progress is this (http://www.egnatia.gr/files/images/Project_Status_ENG.jpg) (June '08). :)

@snupix: video sam albanske i kosovske slice u threadu od vas. hvala lepa isve najlepse u zivotu. zeli vam.


Thanks for sharing those amazing pictures!

Snupix thanks for sharing your photos with us. Your camera is very clear.

It seems that Croatia has the best roads in whole Central Europe. I am impressed by the good quality of roads.The Albanian scenery from Llogara to Saranda is very beautiful. I was in Dhermi in 2006 and they have plans to fix the secondary road that lead down to the town.

Great Job for the pics

Photos aren't visible any more. :(

Wait until Monday.:naughty:

Why?

New month! ;)

It's a pity that the pics are no longer visible...

Try to upload the pics again at imageshack.

Tomorrow they will be visible again.

Photobucket.com account has monthly bandwidth limits. That's why it works much better than imageshack and many other counterparts.

Photobucket.com account has monthly bandwidth limits. That's why it works much better than imageshack and many other counterparts.

:dunno: my photos from photobucket are allways visible

^^ So fewer people actually watch it apparantly. I wonder if the Picasa albums ever get down. I have over 2 GB in pics uploaded so far (3rd account :D )

Ok, I'm back, so I'll transfer the pics to another album...

Okay, so the pictures are back! :cheers:

Please tell me if any links are still broken.

Finally the pictures are back! But I have now saved all the pages to my hard disk!
Are they going to build a motorway in Montenegro towards Serbia through the Morača canyon? It is going to be a hard work!
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=24201018&postcount=105

excellent report!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing trip, I must repeat what others have said. We're planning something similar for our next Europe trip, including Slovenia, but probably not Greece.

Seagull, that motorway is supposed to bypass the canyon, but it won't be much easier. Almost a half of the first 50 km section is to be tunnels/bridges. It's planned to be built first, as it removes a serious bottleneck, both in the summer (traffic) and winter (unpredictable weather). But the current road will become an awesome scenic drive with all trucks and heavy traffic gone.

Excellent tour and photos, Snupix!

WoooW...koje super slike! Svaka čast! :master:

I've finally looked at all pictures! What to say? I guess the fact itself that I needed so long tells how interesting the thread is. Seriously, one of the best threads ever, snupix! :) So most of main roads in Albania are really as good as seen on SSC, not just a few patches here and there. And the nature... breathtaking.

Thanks for sharing my dream tour with us! :cheers:

Thank you Snupix for providing us an in-depth overview of the whole infrastructural-tourist-economical overview of the "Western balkans". One of the best photo diaries I've ever seen. SO many new backgroud info: Pevec chain in Macedonia, VIp.
I had the feeling of travelling fo only 60 Mb :)

Did you write an essay (English or Croatian) about your impressions? Any kind? Will you publish it somewhere?

Tnx everybody again. I didn't write anything apart from this thread, maybe I will if I find some time for it, but you can freely ask me any questions... :)

came in this thread few weeks ago and pics were missing... after i was avoiding it knowing it would take me hours to look all this :)
and now i've seen them all... magnificent trip... well done...
i always wanted to go south toward our neighbors, but never really had the chance... now these pictures serve me as excuse to delay my trip even longer :)
but i sure hope of going down there some time in future...

well done Arno :banana:

after i was avoiding it knowing it would take me hours to look all this :)

Yeah, me too. :D

Amazing pictures. Thanks so much for sharing them with us. I would love to do a road trip from Slovenia all the way down to Macedonia.
Not so much for the roads, but to see the whole region. I've been everywhere in the world but never around the 'old country'.
Thanks again.

Amazing trip, I must repeat what others have said. We're planning something similar for our next Europe trip, including Slovenia, but probably not Greece.

Seagull, that motorway is supposed to bypass the canyon, but it won't be much easier. Almost a half of the first 50 km section is to be tunnels/bridges. It's planned to be built first, as it removes a serious bottleneck, both in the summer (traffic) and winter (unpredictable weather). But the current road will become an awesome scenic drive with all trucks and heavy traffic gone.
Thanks. It is going to be interesting.
But I'm personally more interested in the Adriatic-ionian motorway. What about that?

We contionue along the D8:

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Unfortunately, this forest is now gone for a long, long time... :cry:

:cry: :cry: :cry:

:ohno:

Unfortunately, this forest is now gone for a long, long time... :cry:

Why? What happened exactly? Fire :ohno: ?

Where was this forest, on the sea side or the inland?

I hope the scenery around Makarska is still intact! :cry:

Yes, a disastrous wild fire a few days ago almost reached the town itself. The town was defended but unfortunately the scenery has been radically changed.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCF7pR2ovDQ

i haven't really watched news in past few days...

how much forest has burned around Makarska?

http://www.jutarnji.hr/EPHResources/Images/2008/09/20/pozar.jpg

i haven't really watched news in past few days...

how much forest has burned around Makarska?

Cca 800 ha of pine forest

It was all over media, regular TV program has been interrupted several times that night with breaking news about events down there in Makarska, evacuations and stuff - how on earth you managed to miss it all

Cca 800 ha of pine forest

It was all over media, regular TV program has been interrupted several times that night with breaking news about events down there in Makarska, evacuations and stuff - how on earth you managed to miss it all


lol... let's just say i haven't watched anything on our TV for months :)
i just live on internet downloading what i want to watch and satellite programs :)
shame i still have to pay subscription for HRT...

Thanks. It is going to be interesting.
But I'm personally more interested in the Adriatic-ionian motorway. What about that?

As you can imagine, there's no point in having that one built before Croatia nears the completion of her part, as it doesn't do much for local traffic within Montenegro (unlike the north-south route). But some activities are underway, and from what I have heard, once construction starts, it should be completed fairly quickly. It has to be built in one piece to make any sense, and, surprisingly, the corridor is quite favorable, at least compared to the north-south motorway. It remains to be seen whether it would go through Bosnia as initially planned, or directly to Croatia.

E27 ???

WTF???

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nice pictures, and very nice trip...

bthw E27 is the road that connects Pristina with Skopje. The highway is under construction....planed to be finished next year. Tha pic is before entering to Ferizaje, the highway is almost there......

nice pictures, and very nice trip...

bthw E27 is the road that connects Pristina with Skopje. The highway is under construction....planed to be finished next year. Tha pic is before entering to Ferizaje, the highway is almost there......

on my map this highway is E65.

on my map this highway is E65.
E27 is earlier number for E65, like former E5/now is E75...

Fier-Lushnje road almost finished.
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Albania is too pre-occupied with building Durres-Kukes motorway but i think Adriatic-Ionian Motorway should be our governments priority. This area links the most beautiful parts of Western Balkans.

One of the best therads i've seen.

One of the best therads i've seen.

Thank you! Hopefully coming back this September with a new one ;)

By the look of the pics i can clearly see you had a great time.I F love traveling,especially to places with low tourist freqency ... it's priceless when a local shows you some peace of beauty that you would never have seen if you visited the country/region as a casual tourist.

snupix, you can also make a different balkan route , from croatia to serbia then to romania , then to bulgaria an turkey. LOts of km's , but it's a nice expierence

especially to places with low tourist freqency ... it's priceless when a local shows you some peace of beauty that you would never have seen if you visited the country/region as a casual tourist.

Definitely, I've always had the best experiences wehen it was like this. :)

snupix, you can also make a different balkan route , from croatia to serbia then to romania , then to bulgaria an turkey. LOts of km's , but it's a nice expierence

Oh I'd love to see Eastern Balkans, and I hope to do it sometime soon. :)

Best road trip thread I've ever seen. Amazing picures and really shows how much beauty each of the countries has.

After seeing this thread it just makes me work harder to get more money and go on a trip like this, because after seeing all these pictures, I feel almost pathetic being "stuck" in my regular daily routes and missing all this scenery.

I think there should be 11 deadly sins, with 11th one being "thou shall travel and will not stay in one place all the time".

:D

I think there should be 11 deadly sins, with 11th one being "thou shall travel and will not stay in one place all the time".

:D
There are 7 deadly sins actually :lol: :D

LOL I confused it with commandments :D sorry

A small kick because this thread is worth it :)

(I had to check some stuff about Macedonia)

:master: