Route 2009

FIRST DRAFT ROUTE PROPOSAL!

Serbia

• 6 July Belgrade – event

take a train to Skopje [1]

Macedonia

• 7 July Skopje –

  BT participants arrive by train.

  Event on rent-a-bike

  Ride to sleeping place near Katlanovo, in tents.

• 8 July Veles

  Ride to Veles.

  Event on the smelter [2]

  Sleepover near Veles.

• 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 or in Scout camp)

• 10 July Debresta

  Ride to Debreste.

  Visit of the conservation project of water bufalows.

  Ride to sleeping place t.b.d.

• 11 July

  Ride to Bitola

  Sleeping place t.b.d.

• 12 July Bitola

  Event in Bitola on REC “Bitola”

  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.

  Event in Struga t.b.d.

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.