Ahhh feeling very tired after another shoddy nights sleep. The apartment we had rented for the night was brand spanking new and very nicely done up, but wasn't entirely finished...no toilet paper or towels, and crucially no air con installed - not a fun thing when it was 35C and humidity was 60%. There was also a lot of road noise coming in when we did open the windows to try and get a bit of a breeze - I guess that's what you get when you book a place right next to the bus station. But at least it had a tiny lift to get us from the fourth floor.
We were up at 8 and off to the bus station for the bus to Zlatibor - but again it was a real battle walking to the station as its just so damn hot. Jackie hypothesises that the Serbians are so tall to deal with the heat - more surface area to dissipate it. They seemed to be coping a lot better than we are, even in their jeans.
The four hour bus ride tracked a similar path to the train we caught from Montenegro - in fact it cut through some of the same towns we passed through. The arrival in Zlatibor was a bit of a shock, it was much more developed than we had imagined. Huge hotels, pools, clubs etc. All very overdone, and very different from Zablijak, which is what we had imagined it to be. We grabbed our bags and walked to the apartment we had rented, then walked over to the town centre to grab some early dinner/late lunch. We had done a bit of googling and found there wasn't much to do in town itself, so we would have to find a way of getting out to the tourist attractions. Car rental was pretty exxy and it's very hilly so bikes would be tough, so we asked at one of the many tourists agencies what they could offer. For tomorrow there was a minivan going to some nearby caves, so we signed up for that. Seems like most tourists to the area are. Serbian, so they have their own transport.
We wandered around town for a bit, jackie buying a huge crepe with nutella and orange jam for sustenance, but we were pretty tired from all the lack of sleep so we went to bed fairly early.
We were up at 8 and off to the bus station for the bus to Zlatibor - but again it was a real battle walking to the station as its just so damn hot. Jackie hypothesises that the Serbians are so tall to deal with the heat - more surface area to dissipate it. They seemed to be coping a lot better than we are, even in their jeans.
The four hour bus ride tracked a similar path to the train we caught from Montenegro - in fact it cut through some of the same towns we passed through. The arrival in Zlatibor was a bit of a shock, it was much more developed than we had imagined. Huge hotels, pools, clubs etc. All very overdone, and very different from Zablijak, which is what we had imagined it to be. We grabbed our bags and walked to the apartment we had rented, then walked over to the town centre to grab some early dinner/late lunch. We had done a bit of googling and found there wasn't much to do in town itself, so we would have to find a way of getting out to the tourist attractions. Car rental was pretty exxy and it's very hilly so bikes would be tough, so we asked at one of the many tourists agencies what they could offer. For tomorrow there was a minivan going to some nearby caves, so we signed up for that. Seems like most tourists to the area are. Serbian, so they have their own transport.
We wandered around town for a bit, jackie buying a huge crepe with nutella and orange jam for sustenance, but we were pretty tired from all the lack of sleep so we went to bed fairly early.
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