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May. 29th, 2005 @ 06:22 pm Žabljak, Tara Canyon, and Kupac
floatiness-meter: drowsy
in my head: Montena Radio
Well, we packed today. It was pretty depressing. And, all my flights have changed, so I’m going through customs in Philly, which means I have to somehow lug that monster suitcase (you know, the one that I could smuggle Michael Jordan’s body in?) around the airport and get it through security and everything. Just getting it off the conveyor belt will be a challenge. I think I’m definitely going to invest in one of those rolling cart thingies.

It’s raining again here, as usual in the afternoons. Go figure, the one day I decide to wear a tank top, the good weather breaks. It’s a nice early-summer rain; the kind that brings out the smell of warming asphalt.

I am going to try to finally tell you about Žabljak. It is a town in the northern part of the country which is extremely beautiful, and boasts of Crno Jezero—Black Lake. Peter was insanely kind to take us (in his little 2-door VW—I could go for a car like that). We went straight north (or as straight as you can go on the roads of Montenegro) to Žabljak, had lunch by the lake, and then drove to Tara Canyon, and along it in an easterly-ish direction, coming back by way of Podgorica. You must understand that there was so much new scenery to see, so much to take in, that my brain went into overdrive towards the end of the trip, and simply refused to absorb any more, which is the main reason I haven’t written about it until now—I’ve been giving my brain time to thaw. I’m copying what I wrote about it in my journal, which is basically just snapshots of landscape that are burned in my mind, put together in the order that they happened. So bear with me.

Okay, wow, that ended up being longer than I thought it was going to be. Soo... I’m going to make these lj-cuts. If you really want to read more, go right ahead. Basically, it was gorgeous. Everywhere. If you do read all this, bear in mind that double spaces aren’t paragraph breaks, and the next section isn’t necessarily going to be related to the one above. The spaces are just breaks between photos, if you will.

( Žabljak )

( Tara_Canyon )

In other news, yesterday we went to Kupac, the same lake that we went to the other day with Peter and Amy. It was for the church picnic, and there were about 18 or 20 of us, I think. It was insanely fun, a day of soccer, volleyball, and frisbee. And lunch. Oh my gosh. You wouldn't think 20 people could eat so much food, but we managed it somehow. Every two minutes, somebody was offering us something else to eat, even if we already had three other things in our hands. It was good. I got a lot of pictures of the countryside and of the amazing people I've met here.
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