Route 2009

DRAFT ROUTE PROPOSAL! dates, places and activities can still change a bit. Big cities are easiest to start joining biketour: Belgrade, Skopje, Ohrid (Struga), Durres (as we are there a few days and only one afternoon in Tirana), Podgorica, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Zagreb.But of course you can be adventurous and join us from other places - AS LONG AS YOU LET US KNOW WELL IN ADVANCE!

Serbia

• 6 July Belgrade – event

take a train to Skopje [1]

Macedonia

• 7 July Skopje –

  BT participants arrive by train.

  Event on new rent-a-bike system in Skopje

  Ride to sleeping place near Katlanovo, in tents or perhaps in school building in Skopje.

• 8 July Veles

  Ride to Veles.

  Event on the smelter [2]

  Sleep over near Veles (Mlados Lake?).

• 9 July Smokvica – t.b.c.

  Take a train/bus to Smokvica.

  Event on the building of the highway and the destruction of the IBA.

  Return with a train/bus to Veles.

  Ride to sleeping place in Teovo (either in Monastery, Scout camp or unused school)

• 10 July Debresta

  Ride to Debreste.

  Visit of the conservation project of water buffaloes (http://www.biosfera.org.mk/)

  Ride to sleeping place t.b.d.

• 11 July

  Ride to Bitola

  Sleeping place t.b.d.

• 12 July Bitola

  Bike parade in Bitola centre toward the new Info and Educations Centre on sustainability "Volvox" which offers projects on renewable energies

       (http://www.biosfera.org.mk/)

• Ride to sleeping place t.b.d.

• 13 July

  Ride.

  Swim in Prespa lake.

  Ride to sleeping place t.b.d.

• 14 July Struga (Vevcani)

  Ride to Struga.

  sleep over at scouts in Struga or etno village Vevcani

Albania [3]

• 16 July Albania

Route suggestion: Via Ignatia, [4], [5], hint from SNV Balkans in Tirana.

• Librazhd
• Elbasan
• Dürres
• Tirana / Fushe Kruje / village up the hill with base camp
• Shengjin
• Shkodër

Montenegro

• Virpazar
• Podgorica - 31/07/09
• Nikšić
• Plužine

BiH

• Ščepan Polje
• Foča/Srbnije
• Trnovo
• Sarajevo -- 09/08/09
• Visoko
• Kiseljak
• Zenica
• Travnik
• Skender Vakuf
• Banja Luka -- 16/08/09
• Omarska
• Prijedor

Croatia

• Hrvatska Dubica
• Sisak
• Zagreb -- 25/08/09
• Jagnjedovec -- 28/08/09 - arrival at MuM camp - END OF BIKETOUR 2009!

See it on google map (1st version) to satisfy the geek in yourself.