Kolašin/Podgorica

A very leisurely start this morning, 8:30am breakfast, 10am departure, so I had time for a swim in my bathtub!

We said goodbye to our minibus last night and today we piled into four 4×4 SUVs for a day of riding around backroads and rough routes up and down the Maganik mountains. We were a bit squished and it was a bit bumpy but there were beautiful views.

We stopped at a little monastery and church for a coffee break prepared by our drivers.  The church is interesting as it was built in the 1990’s by a grieving father after the death of his son. There used to be a school but there’s no children left in the area and there’s only 2 Russian nuns living in the big monastery.

There is a small number of chalets and cabins in the area but most are summer residences, very few permanent residents as they can get up to a meter of snow in the winter and it’s a pretty remote area.

We had a nice lunch riverside, then all highway to Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, which we reached around 3:30pm.

A few hours to chill, then an orientation walk around town at 6pm. Podgorica is known as a pretty boring capital city… it seemed pleasant enough but as we’re leaving again in the morning I won’t have a chance to find out.