We have just published two photo albums with more than 400 assorted images from two most impressive and picturesque tours, which were the crown of the season – Montenegrian Highlands 2017 and Balkans Wild Tracks 2017.
Two new photo albums
South Serbian Nomad’s Adventure 2017
Explore the images from the greatest nomadic experience you can have in Serbia – edition 2017, which took place from July 16th to 22nd 🙂
Carlo and friends exploring the Dinaric Alps
A memorable 4-day overlanding (4×4) tour through the unbelievable scenery of southwest Serbia and north-central Montenegro, which took place between July 2nd and 5th 2017. Guided by Serbianoutdoor4x4 / Rustika Travel
Eastern Serbian Nomad’s Adventure 2017
Photo album from another epic overlanding adventure in the Serbian Carpathians with a small, but inspiring group!
Iron Gate and the Stone Arches 2017
The album from the Iron Gate and the Stone Arches 2017 tour has been published – take a look. It was not only a memorable tour through the Iron Gate gorge, but we’ve also captured some really great photo material!
Land Rover club Slovenia discovering Serbian Carpathians
Photo album from the eastern Serbian tour of Land Rover club Slovenia lasting for 4 days + one video revealing a great little 4×4 river trail from the tour.
Romanian tours suspended
Yes, we have made the difficult decision to suspend Romanian tours in 2017, and we are not planning any in 2018 either (which does not mean that we will not tour Romania unofficially, in small scouting groups). We reserve the possibility to reenact our Romanian tours in the future, if the circumstances change.
Serbia 100% safe
You’ve probably seen reports about demonstrations in Serbia these days, and you might have thought “oh, what am I going to do, will I get killed if I go to Serbia?” Keep calm, because nothing violent, dramatic or drastic is happening, and certainly nothing that could endanger either yourself, or your vehicle. We’ve been very busy these days conducting the tours, and taking nice photos of our adventures like the one you see here. However much we’d like to, we haven’t found time to attend the demonstrations so far and, believe it or not, although our headquarters are in the centre of Belgrade, we haven’t had the opportunity to even see the demonstators live. So, even if you’re only a few kilometres away from the national parliament where everything is taking place, you’ll hardly notice that anything is going on, unless you look at news web sites. And the places where your tours will take place this spring are not a few, but rather a few hundred kilometres away – being there, you wouldn’t even notice if a war errupted in Belgrade, and there is 0% chance of that happening.
So be cool, pack your stuff, take your passport and come to Serbia totally relaxed. Everything is functioning normally – the supermarkets, the restaurants, the hotels, the gas stations, everything is still 100% safe, and for us it’s just business as usual 
Offroad in Romania revisited – safe or forbidden?
Exactly three months ago we’ve tried to give an analysis of what is going on in Romania, and the future of offroading in this, probably most popular European country for organizing offroad tours (we’ve covered the theme in this post). In the meantime we haven’t become much smarter or better informed about the subject, so the essential dilemmas still exist. There have been people doubting that there is any truth in what we’ve written, with the key argument “but tour operators are conducting business as usual in 2017?”
Well, if you analize the Romanian tour market carefully, it’s not exactly “business as usual”, or at least not the way it was done some years ago. Of course, the big tour operators, especially those whose main focus of business is on Romania and Carpathian tours, have a vital interest to keep the tours functioning as normal as possible, hiding all the efforts they’re investing to achieve that. But subtle changes in the tour spectre can be seen.
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Otvaranje kamp sezone 2017
(local event for Serbianoutdoor 4×4 members and friends – announcement in Serbian)
Kako smo to već uobičajili, prvi sunčani vikend proleća iskoristićemo da našu malu družinu okupimo na nekom skrovitom mestu duboko u šumi za dva dana opuštenog, apsolutno hedonističkog druženja.
U tim našim okupljanjima nije poenta u vožnji, i u načelu vrlo malo vozimo, iako je ponekad potrebno uložiti solidan napor i tehničko umeće da bismo do svog šumskog skrovišta uopšte mogli da stignemo. Fokus je na uživanju u prirodi pored logorske vatre, a društvo raspoloženo za pripremanje raznoraznih đakonija to obično pretvori u pravu gastronomsku feštu. Pogledajte kako je to izgledalo prošlog proleća na Tisnici (kliknite na fotografiju da otvorite putopis u novom prozoru):
Plan je da se u kasno popodne i predvečerje u petak, 24. marta okupimo na našem supertajnom mestu duboko u Homoljskim šumama i postavimo logor sa prvim mrakom (neki od nas će stići malo ranije, kako bismo blagovremeno pripremili zalihu drva za prvo veče – lokacija obiluje drvima za vatru). Učesnici će dobiti koordinate logora i GPS trek kako do njega da stignu iz dva različita smera.
Evo fotografija lokaliteta kada smo prošli put tamo kampovali, da malo osetite atmosferu…
U subotu i nedelju ćemo uživati u raskošnoj prirodi Homolja, istražujući unaokolo na razne načine, a nije isključeno i da ćemo nekog od tih dana upriličiti i neku 4×4 vožnju po okruženju, kako bismo eventualno otkrili još neku novu, zanimljivu stazu (mada u tom kraju slabo ima nečega što nismo već prošli). Obe noći ćemo logorovati na istom mestu.
Broj mesta je ograničen, a prednost imaju prijatelji koje već dobro poznajemo. Ako vidite sebe u ovoj našoj opuštenoj priči i ako smatrate da bismo se lepo družili, javite se na serb4x4nomad@gmail.com .
Napomena: ovo druženje organizujemo ISKLJUČIVO ukoliko vremenska prognoza za taj vikend ostane nedvosmisleno povoljna. U protivnom ga odlažemo do daljnjeg.
