Montenegro

Montenegro: Durmitor and Lovćen

The world's second-deepest canyon after the Grand Canyon, then a mausoleum perched at seventeen hundred metres honouring the country's greatest poet

Montenegro

Montenegro: Durmitor and Lovćen

A journey far from the Bay of Kotor and Budva: Durmitor National Park, a UNESCO-listed mountain massif home to Tara Canyon, the world's second-deepest canyon after the Grand Canyon at up to thirteen hundred metres deep, as well as eighteen high-altitude glacial lakes locally nicknamed the "eyes of the mountain," then Lovćen National Park, whose Jezerski Peak summit is home to the mausoleum of Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, prince-bishop and Montenegro's greatest national poet, reached after climbing four hundred and sixty-one steps carved into the rock.

When

June to Sept

Price

From 2 000€ excl. flights

(based on 2 people sharing)

How long

5 nights

Ideal length

Durmitor and Tara Canyon

Days 1-2

The first chapter unfolds in Durmitor National Park, a mountain massif UNESCO World Heritage listed since 1980, whose Tara Canyon plunges to thirteen hundred metres deep, making it the world's second-deepest canyon after the Colorado's Grand Canyon and the deepest in Europe. The Tara River that carved this canyon ranks among the continent's purest waterways and also feeds the massif's eighteen high-altitude glacial lakes, locally nicknamed the "eyes of the mountain" for their characteristic circular shape and remarkably clear waters.

Day 1

Rafting through Tara Canyon

A rafting descent on the Tara River, through the world's second-deepest canyon and Europe's deepest, between dizzying rock walls.

Day 2

A hike around the glacial lakes

A hike around the Durmitor massif's glacial lakes, nicknamed the "eyes of the mountain" for their circular shape and clear water.

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Lovćen and the Njegoš Mausoleum

Days 1-2

The road to Lovćen National Park, Montenegro's sacred mountain whose Jezerski Peak summit, rising to sixteen hundred and fifty-seven metres, is home to the mausoleum of Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, a 19th-century prince-bishop regarded as the country's greatest national poet for his epic work The Mountain Wreath. The mausoleum, designed by Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović and inaugurated in 1974, can only be reached after climbing four hundred and sixty-one steps carved through a tunnel bored into the rock, an effort rewarded with an exceptional panorama stretching in clear weather as far as the Adriatic Sea and neighbouring Albania.

Day 1

The climb to the Njegoš Mausoleum

A climb up the four hundred and sixty-one steps carved into the rock to the Njegoš Mausoleum, atop Jezerski Peak.