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Birdwatching
Visit our pages about birdwatching. Serbia is a combination of dominant cultures and civilizations with a charming mix of traditional and modern ways. Leaving behind its history of hard times, Serbia is a dynamic country which desires to accept the contemporary values of Europe. During this tour you will have opportunity to visit Belgrade and Novi Sad and most important cultural and natural values in theirs surrounding. For gentlemen- birdwatching and for ladies – historical excursion, shopping and wellness programs. One of the oldest cities in Europe, Belgrade has existed for almost 2000 years. It is a city rich with cultural activities such as concerts, theatre performances, galleries and an active night life which ends at dawn. National and international restaurants may be compared with the most prestigious in the world. A river dining experience on a floating restaurant or ship will guarantee an unforgettable experience. ’’Skadarlija’’, the bohemian quarter similar to the Montmartre in Paris, is filled with skilled cooks who will not disappoint in bringing you the best Serbian cuisine. During your meal you may choose to be serenaded by the violin or a traditional Serbian folk band, if you wish you can listen until the early morning. While in Belgrade do not miss shopping for bargains or catching basketball game, water polo or volleyball match! Also called “The Serbian Athens”, Novi Sad is famous for its art treasures and rich cultural history. Internationally recognizable by the Petrovaradin Fortress and Exit Festival, Novi Sad is divided by the Danube into the city plain and the hilly Fruąka Gora. With its almost 300 years of existence, it is one of the youngest and the most settled cities in Serbia. Novi Sad is most ethnically and culturally diverse city in Serbia. It is a charming yet noble city with a rich history of the Austria-Hungary Monarchy. Novi Sad is a place in which you will wish to stay ever. Novi Sad is also famous for elegant international and national restaurant. Many will enjoy the active night life in Novi Sad. Cultural events take center stage and give the city a distinctive artistic feel. Short description of Birdwatching destination: Deliblatska pescara (Deliblato Sands) This unique wilderness comprises 33,000 hectares of steppe and mixed forest growing on the largest area of sand in Europe, once part of a vast prehistoric desert. It is bordered by the Danube, Tamiš and Karaš rivers and includes extensive flooded wetlands along the Danube. The region is famed for its high degree of endemism, including many unique plants, reptiles and insects. It is also home to one of the greatest variety of mammals in Europe, with such rarities as European Molerats, Marbled Polecats and at least three packs of Grey Wolves. Birds include: Glossy Ibis, Bittern, Little Bittern, Squacco Heron, Great White Egret, Spoonbill, Ferruginous Duck, Garganey, White-tailed Eagle, Imperial Eagle, Marsh Harrier, Osprey, Goshawk, Saker Falcon, Scops Owl, European Nightjar, Black Woodpecker, European Bee-eater, Hoopoe, European Roller, Wryneck, Sand Martin (up to 18.000 pairs), Tawny Pipit, Red-backed Shrike, Barred Warbler, Great Reed Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Northern Wheatear. Obedska Bara Bird Sanctuary Floodplain oak forest on the north bank of the Sava River, inside an old oxbow with some open water, reed-beds and adjoining wet meadows, lies 65 km west of Belgrade. Birds include: 219 bird species are recorded, breeding Black Stork, White-tailed and Lesser Spotted (Aquila pomarina) Eagles among them, as well as 250-pairs strong heronry (Night, Little, Grey and Purple Herons). Other characteristic birds include Great White Egret, Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia), Little Bittern, Bee-eater, etc Carska Bara (and surrounding fishponds) well-known bird sanctuary east of Novi Sad receives special protection as a Ramsar site. 260 species have been recorded here. The reserve consists of flooded forest with large seasonal pools and extensive reedbeds (the largest in Serbia), fringed with willow and poplar woodland. The surrounding fish ponds are the largest in Europe and host significant concentrations of waterbirds. The area can be explored on foot and by boat, and a number of platforms and hides allow views over the pools and reedbeds. Birds include: Bittern, Little Bittern, Great White Egret, Squacco Heron, Spoonbill, Ferruginous Duck, Garganey, White-tailed Eagle, Marsh Harrier, Water Rail, Corn Crake, Little Crake, Whiskered and Black Terns, Lesser spotted, Middle-spotted and Syrian Woodpeckers, Wryneck, Red-backed Shrike, Penduline Tit, Bearded Tit, Great Reed Warbler, Marsh Warbler, River Warbler, Savi's Warbler. Ribnjak Bečej (Bečej fish ponds) and Biserno Ostrvo (Pearl Island) This is an extensive area of artificial lakes to the north of Novi Sad, surrounded by arable farmland and grazed steppe. The lakes are managed for the commercial production of carp, and are home to a large resident and migratory population of waterbirds. They also hold one of the largest heronries in Serbia. Biserno Ostrvo (Pearl Island) is a nearby area of alluvial farmland, reedbeds and riverine forest trapped between the Tisa river and Mrtva Tisa (a long oxbow lake). Birds include: Bittern, Little Bittern, Great White Egret, Spoonbill, Ferruginous Duck, White-tailed Eagle, Marsh Harrier, Goshawk, Black Kite, Honey Buzzard, Water Rail, Whiskered and Black Terns, Barn, Little, Scops and Tawny Owls, Syrian and Lesser-spotted Woodpeckers, Tawny Pipit, Crested Lark, Red-backed Shrike, Great Reed Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Savi's Warbler, River Warbler, Penduline Tit, Bearded Tit, Bluethroat, Serin, Corn Bunting. Slano Kopovo (saltwater lake and steppe) This nature reserve, located in the very centre of Vojvodina, is the best place in the Pannonian Basin to observe the spectacular annual migration of Common Cranes. It consists of a large saltwater lake, fringed on one shore by extensive reedbeeds and surrounded by an arid region of saline steppe. The region is home to a large number and variety of breeding and visiting waterbirds. Birds include: Spoonbill, Bittern, Garganey, Northern Pintail, Ferruginous Duck, Montagu's Harrier, Saker Falcon, Red-footed Falcon, Common Crane, Black-tailed Godwit, Spotted and Common Redshanks, Greenshank, Green and Wood Sandpipers, Eurasian Curlew, Whimbrel, Avocet, Black-winged Stilt, Kentish Plover, Short-eared Owl, Bluethroat, Leser Grey Shrike, Northern Wheatear. Fruška Gora (mountain ridge) This national park protects a picturesque ridge of hills that extend 78 kilometres west from south of Novi Sad towards the Croatian border. In prehistoric times the hills were an island in the Pannonian Sea which covered the whole of northern Serbia. They also have a rich cultural history: no fewer than 16 orthodox monasteries are located here, and traditional farmsteads (Salaš) provide a hearty welcome to visitors. The hills comprise a variety of habitats, including mixed forest, grazed steppe, farmland and meadows. Birds include: Imperial Eagle, Goshawk, Honey Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Hobby, Saker Falcon, Wood Lark, Crested Lark, Black, Grey-headed, Syrian and Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Hoopoe, Golden Oriole, European Bee-eater, Short-toed Treecreeper, Collared Flycatcher, Hawfinch, Ortolan Bunting, Black-headed Bunting. Programmes: Day 1 Budapest - Novi Sad Arrive at Budapest Airport and transfer to Palić (near Hungarian border). Visiting Ludaš Lake (for birdwatching) and Palić Lake (famous resort). Time for lunch. Arrive to the hotel in Novi Sad. Walking tour through street of Novi Sad and visiting the most important monuments (Orthodox church, Catholic cathedral, museums, galleries).Visiting Petrovardin fortress and Military underground gallery and City museum. Free time for walking and shopping. Optional: Dinner in national restaurant. Overnight. Day 2 Novi Sad Option 2:
AFTER THE EXIT FEST
Keep on feeling the energyEach year, at the beginning of July, the Petrovaradin Fortress becomes a unique, extraordinary music state of positive energy emanated from young people and adorers of rythm. Its significance is best proved with the facts that Music and Seven Magazines characterised the Exit and Novi Sad as a destination which have to be indicated on the list of the places that must be visited and that the MTV has provided coverage and promotion for this event. After the Exit Fest we offer you a possiblity of experiencing the energy of the Serbian and Montenegrin natural beauties. Day 1 Departure from Novi Sad at 11.30 p.m. from the arranged point. Night ride with short breaks. Day 2 Arrival at Šćepan Polje. Breakfast. Rafting downstream the Tara’s most exciting section containing 22 rapids of which Brštanovica, Borovi, Celije and Vjernojevića Buk are the biggest ones on the total course of the Tara River stream. The descend length is 18km, and the difference between the sea level at the start and the sea level at the finish is 100m. Accommodation. Evening dinner at Šćepan Polje with having fun and playing the music. Night-time for sleeping. Day 3 Breakfast. Deaparture for Zlatibor. An enjoyable journey by steam-powered train going through beautiful countryside not far away from Zlatibor and Tara. The train is called ‘’Šarganska osmica’’ or ’’The Figure of Eight of Šargan’’ which is a narrow railroad shaped as number eight. Arrival at the railway station built in 1925. Paying the visit to Mećavnik - the ethno-village of film director Emir Kusturica. On the way to Belgrade a break on Zlatibor will be made. Arrival to Belgrade in the course of the evening. Departure: Price: 159 € 10th July 2006 3 days/ 1 night Per person in a double room. Additional payment for an extra night in Belgrade after this Programme can be arranged. This price includes: - 1 board & lodging - journey by steam-powered train called ‘’Šarganska osmica’’ - rafting on the Tara + equipment - transfers according to the Programme - costs of organizing - local guide - other costs not offered in this Programme
A Wine Tour of the Timok Region
Saturday: Depart from Novi Sad at 08.00 am, from Belgrade at 09.15 am. Visit the small wine cellar of Radovanović in the village of Krnjevo. Lunch in a log-cabin on the banks of the river Morava. The tour continues on to the small town of Knjaževac. Dinner at a famous restaurant in Knjazevac, including wine-tasting and food specialties of the Timok region. Overnight at Pension Barka.Sunday: Knjaževac, a visit to the museum and city, and the vineyard Jović. An opportunity to taste traditional regional specialties in the ethno-park, Ravna at the archeological site of Timacum minus. Afterwards, a visit to Rajačke pimnice, a small traditional village with 270 wine cellars dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. Lunch and wine-tasting. Return at 4.00 pm with a visit to Lepenski vir. Price: 85, 00 Euro – incl. transport Price: 72, 00 Euro – without transport Price includes: - Transport by bus - Overnight with breakfast - Dinner with wine-tasting - Lunch with wine-tasting - Entrance-tickets - Tourist-guide - Organization expenses Payment in dinars (daily rate according to Delta Bank) Knjaževac is a small town in Eastern Serbia, surrounded by mountains. Its rich cultural heritage is displayed in a number of examples of national architecture. There are plenty of green forests, streams and rivers, pure nature with a moderate climate, numerous cultural monuments, mineral springs and healthy food. According to data from the archeological site at Timacum Minus, wine-growing and wine-production in the vineyards of this region dates back to Roman times. At this site a statue of Dionysis, Roman god of wine, was excavated. Overnight in Motel Barka. The motel has 28 beds. All rooms have WC, telephone and TV. The motel has pleasant surroundings and is relatively new. Near the village of Ravna the Roman fortification of Timacum minus, with its excavated walls and parts of a civilian settlement, demonstrates the historic period in this region from the times of the Middle Ages on. There are also excavated remains of another ancient town, Timacum maius. Rajacke pimnice are a unique architectural accumulation of 270 wine-cellars, built from the second half of the 18th century up until the 1930's. The "pimnice" are built from trimmed stone and beams. The houses are connected by streets and small squares. The cellars are partially underground and on the ground floor there are rooms to live in during the grape-harvest. “Wine has always lived in this unique stone town." The general terms of travel of the Agency Magelan Corporation, Novi Sad are valid for this program. |
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