We spent 6 days driving through Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro to arrive in Shkoder, Albania.
Slovakia was really wonderful. We loved what little we saw and the people we met on our drive and our 2 overnight stops. It is definitely somewhere we would come back to explore.
In Dolný Kubín we stayed in a traditional wooden Slovakian guesthouse. The food was great (something a little spicy at last) and the people were very friendly.
We spent our second night in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Banská Štiavnica which is a beautiful preserved medieval town and is famous for the Calvary v Banska Stiavnica, an important pilgrimage site.
protected the people from the plague.
Hungary was just an overnight stop before we drove through Croatia and stayed the night near the Bosnian border.
We had one more stop near Foca, Bosnia just before the Montenegrin border. It was a beautiful area and we stayed on the River Drina which forms a large part of the border and is renowned for wild rafting.
The cows love it as they have roadside greenery to graze on.
There was not much grazing land – all mountains.
This was on the best section of the road from hell.
We followed the River Drina (on the road from hell) to the border crossing into Montenegro. And then followed the River Piva through the Canyon rijeke Pive and out into the valley. It was a spectacular drive.
Lots of tunnels in this region but they have no lights, markers or anything really just earth walls. The short ones were OK but the long tunnels were super creepy as we could hardly see where we were going.
We were relieved and happy to arrive at last in Shkodër on a very hot hazy afternoon where we will base ourselves for 1 month to explore Northern Albania.
Hazy from lots of wildfires in the region.
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