I enjoyed this journey through Montenegro, a country with very nice landscapes (seaside, mountains, lakes) and very interesting activities.
Let's begin with the tourism: about 1,5 millions of visitors each year: Mirko Krdzic of Budva is organizing boat tours for the visitors, Mirko Lutovac is a mountain guide and organizes hiking tours: they hope that other young people of Montenegro will return to the country and begin touristic activities.
After 1990 all touristic activities were privatized except the viticulture: we see the vineyard and then the great cellar ( a former military base) and Bojan Bracanovic, the wine specialist organizes wine-tasting in the huge cellar.
We travel to Ulcinj, near the Albanese border: a multicultural place: Senad Cungu , a chef takes a boat , meets the fishermen in the sea and buys them fishes: then back to the town Senad eats a burek (or börek) , pastry made with thin flaky dough and fillings of onions and meats (a adaptation of a Turkish recipe): we visit the market of Ulcinj and later Senad meets Fatmir Sadiku , an olive trees grower and taste his olive oil.
In the mountains of Montenegro Zeljko Peovovic and Djoko Djinovic are discovering new rocks and cliffs to climb (there are so many mountains to discover in this country). Besides Goran Barovic, speleologist says that there are many unknown caves in Montenegro and we can see when he is exploring a cave with his visitors.
In the National Park of Durmitor (Unesco World Heritage site) we see alpine patures: Veljko and his wife Ljeposa are breeding sheep and producing sheep cheese: they use solar panel for their energy supply.
At the north of the country the Tara river is the border between Bosnia and Montenegro (over 200 kilometers) : Mico Danilo Grubac has come back to this region and organizes rafting tours.
Stanica (from Bosnia) and Lidjo (from Montenegro ) have met at the Tara river and tell their love story: Milos enjoys crossing the suspended bridges over the Tara river and explains that bridges are eternal , they help the people of different places to communicate with each other.
I enjoyed also the zoom bout the "Yugo- nostalgics": people of who remember the time of the Yugoslavia (the health care, the education and the steady jobs): Nebo is proud of his Zastava 750 and remembers the good moments of his childhood.
In a supermarket of Podgorica a lady shows the cookies made in the time of the Yugoslavia, but explains also that now they find Serbian, Crotian or Bosnian products in the shop.
I enjoyed the encounters of Tiga with Dolores Fabian in Kotor (the old town, the Church of Our Lady of the Rocks and the kayaking), , with Mila (the embroidery of Dobrota), with Catherine Coq (the market in Bar, the canyoning and the restaurant of Lazar Medigovic), with Igor Rudoviv and his folkloric dance group in Cetinje, with Vesna Pajnovic and Sanja KOvacevic in the mountains near Berane, with Andrija Dabanovic (boat tour on Skadar Lake) , with the sister of the Orthodox monastery,and with Vesko Vuceranovic and his family (eating fish at the Skadar lake): very nice encounters with very kind Montenegro men and women.
Let's begin with the tourism: about 1,5 millions of visitors each year: Mirko Krdzic of Budva is organizing boat tours for the visitors, Mirko Lutovac is a mountain guide and organizes hiking tours: they hope that other young people of Montenegro will return to the country and begin touristic activities.
After 1990 all touristic activities were privatized except the viticulture: we see the vineyard and then the great cellar ( a former military base) and Bojan Bracanovic, the wine specialist organizes wine-tasting in the huge cellar.
We travel to Ulcinj, near the Albanese border: a multicultural place: Senad Cungu , a chef takes a boat , meets the fishermen in the sea and buys them fishes: then back to the town Senad eats a burek (or börek) , pastry made with thin flaky dough and fillings of onions and meats (a adaptation of a Turkish recipe): we visit the market of Ulcinj and later Senad meets Fatmir Sadiku , an olive trees grower and taste his olive oil.
In the mountains of Montenegro Zeljko Peovovic and Djoko Djinovic are discovering new rocks and cliffs to climb (there are so many mountains to discover in this country). Besides Goran Barovic, speleologist says that there are many unknown caves in Montenegro and we can see when he is exploring a cave with his visitors.
In the National Park of Durmitor (Unesco World Heritage site) we see alpine patures: Veljko and his wife Ljeposa are breeding sheep and producing sheep cheese: they use solar panel for their energy supply.
At the north of the country the Tara river is the border between Bosnia and Montenegro (over 200 kilometers) : Mico Danilo Grubac has come back to this region and organizes rafting tours.
Stanica (from Bosnia) and Lidjo (from Montenegro ) have met at the Tara river and tell their love story: Milos enjoys crossing the suspended bridges over the Tara river and explains that bridges are eternal , they help the people of different places to communicate with each other.
I enjoyed also the zoom bout the "Yugo- nostalgics": people of who remember the time of the Yugoslavia (the health care, the education and the steady jobs): Nebo is proud of his Zastava 750 and remembers the good moments of his childhood.
In a supermarket of Podgorica a lady shows the cookies made in the time of the Yugoslavia, but explains also that now they find Serbian, Crotian or Bosnian products in the shop.
I enjoyed the encounters of Tiga with Dolores Fabian in Kotor (the old town, the Church of Our Lady of the Rocks and the kayaking), , with Mila (the embroidery of Dobrota), with Catherine Coq (the market in Bar, the canyoning and the restaurant of Lazar Medigovic), with Igor Rudoviv and his folkloric dance group in Cetinje, with Vesna Pajnovic and Sanja KOvacevic in the mountains near Berane, with Andrija Dabanovic (boat tour on Skadar Lake) , with the sister of the Orthodox monastery,and with Vesko Vuceranovic and his family (eating fish at the Skadar lake): very nice encounters with very kind Montenegro men and women.