Nikola Tesla Tour 2

The story of Tesla Ways begins more than a century ago, when the production of electrical energy opened up a new chapter in the history of the modern world. One of the best-known museums in Belgrade is the Nikola Tesla Museum which preserves the valuable legacy of the famous inventor and visionary genius. However, the story of the great friendship between Nikola Tesla and Djordje Stanojevic which left a deep impression on the overall industrial development in Serbia, is less known. Professor Stanojevic was one of the leading scientists of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, as astrophysicist, meteorologist and rector of the University of Belgrade. It is thanks to Djordje Stanojevic that Tesla spent a famous day in June of 1892 in Belgrade. Their friendship generated the small and impoverished nation of Serbia to follow the path of modernization by establishment of the hydroelectric plant “Pod gradom” in Uzice only four years after construction of the large plants at the Niagara Falls. 10 hydroelectric plants have been built in Serbia by Stanojevic along Tesla’s principles of poly-phase electricity, which had illuminated Serbia and are nowadays true living museums. Thanks to his tremendous powers and delightful ideas Nikola Tesla left fascinating legacy – he believed we would develop ways to see thought and that people would communicate with their thoughts, described means of tapping the sun’s energy with an antenna, suggested that it would be possible to control the weather with electrical energy, predicted machines that would make war an impossibility… and made possible groundbreaking achievements and discoveries which changed the research landscape for future generations.

“There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exiting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb. Long live Serbdom!…” NIKOLA TESLA

“One should do good to the point of exhaustion, one should terrify the universe with goodness  as we are horrified by the amount of evil in the world. One should do goon to the point of stupidity. And beyond it. And when there is no reason, one should do good. One should intentionally, every day, melt someone. The Universe should be confused. The good should be done even when the good does not return to the good it should, in spite of everything it should, because it is the only thing and because nothing makes sense. And the only blow to nonsense is the good, it should be done well and when let’s think that doing good doesn’t make sense either. Only meaningless good smells to me in some sense. Perfect, pure good, without any meaning.” Slobodanka Boba Đuderija

“The energy of a single thought could determine the movement of the Universe” Nikola Tesla

Be a part of the tour packages which best evoke the life, secrets and creative works of Nikola Tesla and Djordje Stanojevic back a century in time.

Nikola Tesla Tour 2 – West Serbia

Day 1  Belgrade – HE Vrelo  Perucac Lake – Drvengrad Mecavnik

Morning visit to the Nikola Tesla Museum. Drive by bus via Valjevo direction West Serbia and tour of the tiny Vrelo Hydroelectric plant in Bajina Basta. Refreshment and traditional lunch in the restaurant overlooking the beautiful Perucac Lake. Drive to Mokra gora and accommodation at the Drvengrad Mecavnik traditional settlement and film Academy established by famous director Emir Kusturica. Traditional dinner, overnight.

Day 2  Sargan Train – HE Pod gradom – HE Turica – Ivanjica

After breakfast Sargan train ride along gorgeous scenery of the Sargan Mt and Mokra Gora Nature park surrounding the Drvengrad. Drive to Uzice and tour of the “Pod gradom” Hydroelectric plant, the first one in Serbia constructed in 1898 on Djetinja River, according to Tesla’s principles of poly-phase electricity. Walk through the intact nature to the magnificent waterfalls and dam of the old Turica HE. Lunch. Continue to Ivanjica and accommodation in luxurious chalets of the traditional settlement. Traditional dinner with folklore performance, overnight.

Day 3  HE Moravica – Saint Achilles Church – Belgrade

After breakfast tour of the Moravica Hydroelectric plant on Moravica River, constructed in 1911. Break for lunch at the wonderful waterfalls on Moravica River. Drive to Belgrade with break for visit to the St Achilles Church in Arilje which features wonderful Medieval frescoes. Late evening arrival and end of program and services.

Price per person – minimum 6 participants : 355 EUR /double occupancy/

Included : high tourist class AC bus transportation, entrance fee for the Nikola Tesla Museum, tour of the Vrelo HE Plant in Bajina Basta with refreshment and lunch, 1 HB at the Drvengrad Mecavnik, Sargan train ride, sightseeing tour of the “Pod gradom” HE plant and “Turica” HE plant, traditional lunch on day 2, 1 HB at the traditional settlement in Ivanjica, tour of the Moravica HE plant, lunch in the restaurant on Moravica River waterfalls, sightseeing of the St Achilles Church, 24 hours Panacomp support, logistics and professional guidance