The Tara National Park

In the Tara National Park.

Hay stacks in the Tara National Park.

Rainbow.

Picea omorika. It is a rare, local spruce,endemic to the Tara National Park. Picea omorika or Serbian spruce is of major importance in horticulture as an ornamental tree. "Omorika" is a Serbian word for "spruce".

Celebrating New Year 2010

Entertainment the Serbian way.

At midnight a group of Serbian "trubaci" surprised us.

Happy New Year!

The Mecavnik Hill

Above Mokra Gora on the hill Mecavnik the film director Emir Kusturica built a wooden village.

The village is called Kustendorf (from the name Kusturica and the German word dorf meaning village).

The wooden church in Kustendorf is dedicated to St. Sava.

It is a turist resort with a restaurant, art gallery, cinema ...

By Train, Old "Ciro"

This railway station Golubici was built in 2005 for Emir Kusturica's film Life is a Miracle.

Stop at the Golubici station.

View of the Mokra Gora village from the Golubici station.. On the hill is Kusturica's Drvengrad (Wooden Town).

Between Sargan and Mokra Gora the railway is making a path in the shape of number 8, thus the 300 m height difference was surmanted skillfully.
In the picture: view from the train.

The Sargan Eight

The Sargan Eight is a narrow gauge railway in Serbia, running from the village Mokra Gora to Sargan Vitasi station. We entered the train at the station Jatare.

This railway was an important part of the former narrow gauge main line from Sarajevo to Belgrad. It was closed in 1974.

Between 1999 and 2003 the section over the Sargan pass was rebuilt.

Inside the train.

Mt. Sargan

Our group on Mt. Sargan.

On Mt. Sargan, W Serbia.

Mt. Sargan.

The people on the left are looking down towards Mokra Gora.

Mt. Sargan

Old locomotive in Mokra Gora.

Walking on Mt. Sargan.

31 December 2009 on Mt. Sargan.

Mt. Sargan.

Mokra Gora

We spent the New Year at a railway station.

Happy New Year 2010!

The railway station Mokra Gora , turned into a hotel.

Mokra Gora is today a famous tourist resort.

Valjevo

A building in the old part of Valjevo - Tesnjar. Tesnjar was the commercial part of town in the old Turkish times, the "carsija".

A restaurant in Tesnjar, Valjevo.

A street in the newer part of Valjevo.

Valjevo's National Museum. The scene in the underground shows Serbian dukes Aleksa Nenadovic and Ilija Bircanin in Turkish jail in 1804 before decapitation.