Let's dance the Balkans: A 12-stage cycle tour. Stage 3 from Mojkovac to Durdevica Tara. The night before we stayed at the Tara Valley Ecolounge, a bucolic site with clean bungalows, where if you ask in advance they can prepare dinner for you in an outdoor area, offering you the products they produce on the farm. We arrived a little late and went by bike to the Most restaurant on the river, riding a few romantic kilometers with the lights on.
Stage 3 is quite easy, we allow ourselves a relaxed start after a hearty breakfast in the outdoor area in the still warm morning.
Today's stage follows a stretch of asphalt road along the Tara River, starting to enter the Durmitor National Park. As you climb, you enter a magnificent centuries-old conifer forest, grown boldly on rugged pinnacles and limestone walls, which little by little completely surrounds us. At the bottom of the valley, the Tara flows ever further away. The road, also due to renovation work, is not used by cars. We meet a Dutch cycle traveler who has been traveling for six weeks (I would not want to be between her legs). Lots of photo shots and we arrive at the historic reinforced concrete trellis bridge over the Tara River, built between 1937 and 1939, it remains a daring construction that crosses the river gorge with a height of almost 180m. Despite the years it shows off and is a regular destination for tourists passing through.
We thought of dedicating the next day to rafting, which we had already booked not without difficulty via internet/phone from home. It was interesting, but also due to the season the current was not strong and we also rowed at times. If you were interested in this activity, perhaps it would be better to try further north, where, in Bosnian territory, the 2 rivers Tara and Piva join to form the Drina River. Perhaps the flows will be more satisfying for a nice rafting, in the Bastasi area (BiH), where there are also several rafting centers.