Skies Over Serbia as Blue as Spiritual Freedom
Information
- Location:
Serbia tour
- Duration:
- 7 days
- Price From:
- $960
Skies Over Serbia as Blue as Spiritual Freedom
7 Days Tour $960
General Information
Included Features
- Transportation with luxurious coach or van
- Services, accommodation in hotels of 3,4 stars on B/B basis, double occupancy, or monastery lodgment (special regime of behavior)
- Lunches and dinner by the program with extraordinary traditional meals, as well as all tasting mentioned
- Show performance “Karadjordje koje kude”
- Boat ride on the Uvac Lake
- Train ride in Mokra Gora
- Professional guidance
- Services of local guides and fees for sites mentioned in program
Sightseeing
- Belgrade
- Novi Sad
- Uvac Lake
- Mokra Gora
- Ovcar-Kablar Monasteries
Note: Visit to Serbian Orthodox monasteries and churches are one the program free of charge, but people traditionally donate sums of their choice.
Key Features
- Tour Duration: 7 day(s)
- Group Size: 6 - 27 people
- Destination(s): Serbia
- Specialty Categories: Cultural Journey Pilgrimage/Spirituality
- Season: May - August
- Airfare Included: No
- Tour Customizable: No
- Minimum Per Person Price: 960 Euro (EUR)
- Maximum Per Person Price: 1250 Euro (EUR)
Departure from Novi Sad / Belgrade, drive by Corridor X to Velika Plana and visit to Pokajnica log Church and Radovanjski Lug, a place where the Great Karadjordje was murdered. In an authentic environment actors perform the show under the name ,,Karadjordje koje kude…,, Traditional lunch. Continue driving to Topola and visit to Oplenac, the Church, the Mausoleum of St. George, the foundation of the royal family… Drive via Kragujevac to Vrnjacka Banja Spa. Accommodation in hotel, dinner. Overnight.
After breakfast pleasant walk through the beautiful spa gardens with visit to the mineral water springs. Trip to the Mountain Goc;, trim track, relief walks in the fresh air and possibilities to enjoy the beautiful scenery. Traditional lunch. Visit to the typical village landowner family who breeds cattle and produces the fine cheese, yogurt, famous kaymak and other traditional products. Tasting. Drive to Studenica Monastery and accommodation in Monastery Dormitory /special regime of behavior/ . Dinner, overnight.
After breakfast, Studenica Monastery tour - The Church of The Virgin Mary, The King’s Church, the Treasury, Church of St.Nicola, dinning room… This splendid foundation was built by Stefan Nemanja before the renunciation of the throne and leaving into the friars 1195. to Hilandar Monastery. It is the most important Serbian Monastery regarding its cultural and spiritual values. Drive along the “lilac valley – King’s valley” through Raška to Djurdjevi Stupovi Monastery, dominating from the hill over Novi Pazar, the place where the heart of the Serbian medieval state was established between 11th and 14th century. Tour of the ecclesiastical complex and presentation of the St.Sava life and his holy Orthodoxy, who was born in nearby village Deževa, in the middle of the surrounding Deževo valley. Drive to the source of Raška River to Sopocani Monastery , with the most brilliant masterpieces of fresco-painting from 13th century. Refreshment and lunch. Drive to Zlatar Mountain, one of the most beautiful mountains in Serbia. Hotel accommodation. Dinner, overnight.
Application: 60 days prior departure.
Departures:
01 June 2010 - 07 June 2010
13 July 2010 - 19 July 2010
Minimum Per Person Price: 960 Euro (EUR)
Maximum Per Person Price: 1250 Euro (EUR)