Highlights of Serbia

Day 1   Belgrade – Topola – Arandjelovac   

Arrival to Belgrade and welcome by Panacomp Travel professional tourist guide. Drive to Topola/Oplenac (ca 1,20 hours). Tour of the Royal Mausoleum and the Saint George Church with beautiful mosaics. Wine tasting. Visit to the Sculpture park in Arandelovac Banja Spa park /UNESCO/. Accommodation and dinner at the Izvor Hotel, spa/wellness services available.

Day 2   Arandjelovac – Ovcar-Kablar Gorge – Potpec Pecina Cave – Mecavnik Drvengrad

After breakfast drive direction West Serbia. Break for quick walk along the Ovcar-Kablar Gorge and boat trip to visit the St Nicholas – Nikolje Monastery, introduction on monastic lifestyle with the nuns, refreshment /homemade honey or juice/. Drive on to the Potpeć pećina Cave and visit, followed with lunch – grilled mountainous trout. Dinner and overnight at the Mećavnik – Wooden Town hotel.

Day 3   Sargan train ride – Tara National Park

After breakfast Sargan train ride along beautiful landscape of the Mokra Gora Special Nature Park. Traditional lunch. Afternoon easy walk along the Tara National Park breathtaking scenery to one of the observation points from where spreads magic panorama. Return to the Mecavnik Wooden Town – Kustendorf hotel, dinner, overnight.

Day 4   Gostilje Watefaslls – Staro Selo Sirogojno Open air Museum – Zlatibor 

After breakfast drive to Gostilje Waterfalls, easy walk through the pure nature. Continue to the Staro Selo Sirogojno Open Air Museum and sightseeing. Traditional lunch /with wooden spoons/. Visit to the Knitters Museum of the Sirogojno Company, presentation of handwork and tasting of exceptional dried fruits, that are all exported worldwide. Accommodation and dinner in 4 stars hotel in Zlatibor /spa/wellness services available/.

Day 5   Uvac Special Nature Reserve – Studenica Monastery 

After breakfast in Zlatibor, we depart direction south /ca 30km/ to the Uvac Nature Reserve, and easy invigorating walk to the edge of the Uvac Canyon, from where you can see the nests of the griffin vultures predator birds. Rich homemade lunch in rural household /buckwheat pie/. We continue via the Zlatar lake to Ivanjica to the Studenica Monastery, UNESCO heritage site, if applicable accommodation and dinner in the monastic dormitory /monastic or traditional food, and glass of red wine produced by monks/.

Day 6  Zica Monastery – Avala Mountain

After breakfast drive to Belgrade, with short sightseeing of the Žiča Monastery. En route traditional homemade brunch – lepinja with kaymak and prsut /homemade bread with kaymak and smoked ham/. Avala Mountain visit, easy walk to the TV tower, lift ride while enjoying wonderful panorama of the Serbian metropolis. Hotel accommodation – 4 stars central hotel in Belgrade. Dinner in Skadarlija Restaurant. Overnight.

Day 7   Belgrade 

After breakfast morning visit to the Tito Museum – Museum of Yugoslav History or the Beli Dvor compounds /if applicable/. Afternoon sightseeing tour of the historical Zemun quarter of Belgrade, farewell dinner on the boat-restaurant in Zemun. Overnight in 4 stars central hotel in Belgrade.

Day 8   Belgrade departure 

After breakfast transfer from hotel to Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport. Departure flight and end of program/services.

Package price per person/twin-double room occupancy/ : FROM 1185 EUR   Minimum 12 participants;

Single supplement: 280 EUR

Included : transportation with high tourist class AC bus; entrance fee for the Oplenac Royal Mausoleum; wine tasting; entrance fee for the Arandjelovac sculpture park; 1 HB at the 5 stars Izvor hotel Arandjelovac, /wellness/; boat trip in Ovcar-Kablar Gorge; donation for visit to the St Nicholas Monastery; entrance fee for the Potpec pecina Cave; rustic lunch – mountainous trout in Potpece village; 2 HB at the 4 stars Drvengrad Mecavnik Hotel; Sargan train ride; traditional lunch at Mokra gora train station; entrance fee for the Tara National Park; entrance fee for the Staro selo Sirogojno Open air Museum with traditional lunch and entrance fee for the Knitters Museum with presentation of handwoven cardigans and tasting of dried berries on Day 4; 1 HB at the 4 stars hotel Zlatibor with spa/wellness services/; entrance fee for the Uvac Special Nature Reserve; traditional homemade lunch on Day 5; 1 HB at the Studenica Monastery Dormitory or nearby 4 stars hotel; homemade lunch on Day 6; tour of Avala Tower with lift ride; traditional dinner in Skadarlija restaurant in Belgrade; entrance fee for the Museum of History of Yugoslavia or the Beli Dvor compounds; 2 BB in the 4 stars Belgrade hotel; farewell dinner in the Zemum restaurant in Belgrade; 24 hours support and professional English-speaking tourist guidance of Panacomp Wonderland Travel LCC Serbia