Zabljak - Mojkovac - Zabljak

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Nicki!  What could be a better way to start the day than with a dozen roses, champagne and breakfast in bed?  

Too bad we're on holidays so Nicki had to settle for a box of Serbian chocolates and some dodgy €3.00 bottle of Montenegran red wine.    

As the weather was still bad today (but not as bad as yesterday) we bummed around the house for a while before deciding to go for a drive.  We wanted to see more of the Tara River and the canyon that we’d only seen 8km of two days ago when we were rafting so we packed our wet weather gear and away we went.

Tara Bridge

The drive from Zabljak to the river itself took about 1/2 an hour and then, after making a right hand turn, we drove alongside the Tara River to a town called Mojkovac about 70kms away. (Or halfway across Montenegro.)

Unlike the day we went rafting the river today was a muddy brown colour due to the heavy rain overnight.  Still the deep canyon walls shrouded in fog and mist were a sight to see and we were glad to get out of the house. 

We came across a tributary from a canyon perpendicular to the Tara and the weather had let up sufficiently for us to get out of the car and go for a walk up river.

This river was much smaller but pumping with crystal clear water due to the overnight rain.  We walked along that for a while trying to follow a track to what sounded like a waterfall off in the distance but with the banks broken the track upstream wasn't visible.  Nevermind it was still an impressive sight.   

Bushwalk.

Finally arrived at Mojkovac and had the cheapest lunch we have found thus far in Montenegro mainly because it was well and truly off the tourist maps. 

Massive palacinke (crepes) for desert loaded and folded over with Nutella and some cinnamon sugar thing that the kids couldn’t get enough off.  Total price per crepe €0.50 or €2.00 for the four of us.  (Nicki not being a big palacinke fan.) 

We drove back down the canyon after that marvelling at the canyon walls again and went out for dinner to celebrate Nicki’s birthday.

Dinner was great and came in at a massive €40.00 including drinks and local specialities. (I say local specialities but what I mean is what we were allowed to pick from the menu.)

Birthday dinner.

After spending 10 minutes deciphering the broken English on the menu and settling on a few meals the waiter came over and said not everything is available.  When we asked what wasn't available he pointed out about 90% of the menu.

So we asked him what was available and got that instead.

Stray observation:  Just because it's on the menu doesn't mean it's ON the menu.