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
- 5 July Belgrade
BT Welcome meeting preparation of event of next day
- 6 July Belgrade – Criticall Mass through Belgrade center
- 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 center towards 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
- 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.