Only reopened in 2010 (after it was destroyed in the course of the NATO bombings in 2000) it needs definitely some courage to climb this 129m high platform overlooking Belgrade to the North, and rolling hills to the South. Legend has it that the Argonauts with their Goldern Fleece, who travelled on the Danube from Greece to Georgia, rested on Avala mountain. So no doubt that one of our first trips out of town had to be on Avala!
Views to the North are to Belgrade...
...but right under us into fantastic beech and oak forests, and rolling hills to the South!
And what did we spot there? Maybe a great restaurant to explore?
So the chief biker of H3 set off and was hardly to be stopped, following a well marked trail with an A on!
Leading us straight to the Avala Mountaineering hut Carapicebrest (www.brest.co.rs)! What a discovery! A great terrace with good (substantial) food (filet for three with all it came with for less than 15Sfr.), and in the first floor simple rooms to rent! Surrounded by lush forests, many marked trails, and many of them to bike or cross country ski in winter.
All of this only 12km out of Belgrade (take tram 9 from the railway station to the end, and then swap onto any of the Nr. 400 buses (except 402) to the foot of Avala, from where it is an easy 45min well marked hike onto the summit; from May 1st onwards there is also a bus climbing straight to the summit); From the restaurant it is an easy and again marked descent along an asphalt road to Beli Potok village, form where bus 402 returns to the final station of tram 9. See below the time table attached to the village shop! Beli Potok can also be reached by train, and thus WITH the bikes!!!
Only reopened in 2010 (after it was destroyed in the course of the NATO bombings in 2000) it needs definitely some courage to climb this 129m high platform overlooking Belgrade to the North, and rolling hills to the South. Legend has it that the Argonauts with their Goldern Fleece, who travelled on the Danube from Greece to Georgia, rested on Avala mountain. So no doubt that one of our first trips out of town had to be on Avala!
Views to the North are to Belgrade...
...but right under us into fantastic beech and oak forests, and rolling hills to the South!
And what did we spot there? Maybe a great restaurant to explore?
So the chief biker of H3 set off and was hardly to be stopped, following a well marked trail with an A on!
Leading us straight to the Avala Mountaineering hut Carapicebrest (www.brest.co.rs)! What a discovery! A great terrace with good (substantial) food (filet for three with all it came with for less than 15Sfr.), and in the first floor simple rooms to rent! Surrounded by lush forests, many marked trails, and many of them to bike or cross country ski in winter.
All of this only 12km out of Belgrade (take tram 9 from the railway station to the end, and then swap onto any of the Nr. 400 buses (except 402) to the foot of Avala, from where it is an easy 45min well marked hike onto the summit; from May 1st onwards there is also a bus climbing straight to the summit); From the restaurant it is an easy and again marked descent along an asphalt road to Beli Potok village, form where bus 402 returns to the final station of tram 9. See below the time table attached to the village shop! Beli Potok can also be reached by train, and thus WITH the bikes!!!
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