The team decided to postpone November yet for another week end....
...and did so extremely successfully!
The circular walk starting at Novo Hopovo Monastery comes highly recommended. Cross the ditch at the end of the little valley (steep dirty trail for 10m!) to the right of the Monastery to reach the well heart sign posted trail. Follow it up all the way mostly in a small valley, until reaching the ridge where a few coffee places mark Iriski Venac (to your left, when climbing, the road can be heard, but not seen). Follow the path to the right and then left of the ridge road direction East, passing the Planinarski dom (good capuchino) and the big Partisan memorial sight. After a descent, spot the poster on the right sight of the road. From there, the trail, again well heart signposted, seems to return into the direction you came from, and climb up, but this is only to reach a beautiful ridge, leading all the way down to Stara Hopovo Monastery. There is a sign posted short cut leading to the spring some 200m away from the Monastery where locals come to fetch water. Reaching Novo from Staro you either follow the tarmac road as the locals do, or again continue on the well heart sign posted trail. Do not miss the well sign posted turn off to the right just ouside a Vikiendi settlement, but leading off the dirt track! Should take about 3 hours, it is 10km long. A map is despite the panels still very useful, as no directions are indicated!)
