Travel & Fun Agency | Serbia Arrangements Meet Serbian Highlights Telenet Marketing Center Phone: +38164 5558581; +38161 6154768; www.booking-hotels.biz/holidays/ [email protected] Meet Serbian Highlights Day 1th: Meeting of passengers and representatives of the agency at the airport Nikola Tesla - Belgrade. Transfer to the hotel. Sight - seeing of the city with a professional tourist guide. Itinerary: the City Parliament, the Federal Parliament, Terazije Street, Republic Square, Students' Square, Belgrade Fortress - Kalemegdan, City Gate ["Varos kapija"], New Belgrade, Topcider Hill, Dedinje, Oslobodjenje Square, Slavija Square, Nikola Pasic Square. In the evening organized visit to the Belgrade Bohemian Quarter - Skadarlija. Dinner in the national restaurant with live music. Overnight.. Day 2nd: Breakfast. One - day excursion - "Reveal romance". Itinerary: Belgrade - Novi Sad - Petrovaradin Fortress - Sremski Karlovci - Salash 137 - Belgrade. Visit to the old city lake of Novi Sad [Sloboda Square, Orthodox Church, Vladicinski Palace, City Hall, Cathedral, Dunavska Street, Nikolajevska Church, Serbian National Theatre, Mladenacki [Newlyweds] Square, bridges on the Danube, Sahat Tower], Petrovaradin Fortress. Sremski Karlovci, the center of Serbian spiritual and secular power. Visit to Orthodox Church, Patriarchate Court, Main Square and Gymnasium of Karlovci. Visit to the one of famous wine cellars in this town. Visit to " Salas 137 " and lunch with good dining table of Vojvodina. Return to Belgrade. In the evening, dinner is organized on the boat restaurant on Sava and Danube rivers. Overnight. Day 3rd: Breakfast. Check out from the hotel. Departure to Zlatibor and Mokra Gora. Itinerary: Belgrade, Zlatibor Mountain, Mokra Gora - Ethno village Sirogojno. Visit to the film city of Emir Kusturica - Drvengrad. Watching the projection of the latest documentary film by Emir Kusturica, after which lunch is planned in the ethno restaurant of this unique film city. Boarding the train "Cira" and driving along the famous "Sarganska osmica" - the narrowest narrow - gage railroad which has on its 15km long route 22 tunnels, many viaducts and bridges and it represents the greatest tourist attraction in Europe at the moment. Breaks on the places with pretty views and on the place where film "Zivot je cudo" ["Life is a miracle"] by Emir Kusturica is made. Departure to ethno village " Sirogojno ". Accommodation in ethno houses and dinner in national restaurant of this unique village. Day 4th: Breakfast. Check out and departure to tourist center " Vrnja?ka Banja" [Vrnjacka Spa]. Itinerary: Village Sirogojno - Ovcarsko-kablarska Gorge - Kraljevo - Vrnjacka Spa. Visit to few of the ten monasteries of the Ovcarsko - Kablarska Gorge which are referred to as the Serb Athos. Over centuries these ten monasteries safeguarded the ancient manuscripts, out of which some were also written there. Continuing the trip and visit to monastery Zica and Ljubostinja near Kraljevo which are some of the holiest sites in Serbia. Lunch in national restaurant. Arrival at tourist center " Vrnja?ka Banja ". Accommodation in hotel. Sightseeing of tourist center and dinner. Overnight. Day 5th Breakfast. Check out from the hotel and departure to Belgrade. Itinerary: Vrnja?ka Banja - Kraljevo - Kragujevac - Oplenac - Country Club hotel Babe - Belgrade. Visit to the Memorial park "Sumarice" with Museum of the Genocide in Kragujevac town. This is the place where in World War II, Germans killed 7000 citizens of Kragujevac. Among them were three hundred pupils. Continuing trip to Topola - Oplenac were we will visit Memorial complex of the Karadjordjevic royal family. Lunch is planned in the exclusive vacation area " Country Club hotel Babe " at the foothill of the nearby mountain Kosmaj, where you will be specially attracted by the herd of thoroughbred horses and many else. Arrival at Belgrade. Accommodation in hotel. Dinner. Overnight.. Day 6th: Breakfast. Transfer to the airport and departure of the group. Arrangement includes: - transfers by high tourist class bus / mini bus during the travel, - accommodation [3 nights in Belgrade hotel, 1 night in ethno houses of the village Sirogojno 1 night in hotel in Vrnja?ka Banja tourist center,]. Type of service: Bed & breakfast [BB], - 4 lunches, 5 dinners, no drink included during the travel, - all tickets and sightseeing included in the program, - a guide speaking the native language of the group provided during the trip, - organization and running the trip. With this arrangement general travel conditions of Vekol Tours Travel Agency are to be applied. page 1 / 4 Vojvodina tours Serbia Arrangements Novi Sad is a town on the river Danube, located in the middle of the Vojvodinian part of Panonian plain and is the second largest city in Serbia. It is located between the 19th and 20th degree of the eastern longitude and the 45th and 46th degree of the northern latitude, on 72 to11.79 80 m of altitude. Novi Sad is located on the international road, which connects Budapest and page 2 / 4 Vienna, Thessalonica, Athens, Bucharest and Istanbul The highway E-72 [Budapest-Belgrade-Nis] passes alongside Novi Sad while the highway E-70 [Zagreb-Belgrade] is in the close vicinity. The average distance between Novi Sad and the neighbouring countries [Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina] is 80 km while the nearest airport in Belgrade is 70 km away. The advantage of this town lies in its geo-strategic location. Novi Sad is on the water road Rain-Main-Danube that connects nine countries and six capitals of Europe, and which is 588 km long in our country. Novi Sad is also famous for its attractive picnic grounds in the surroundings of the town, around the banks of the river or on Fruska Gora. Population Novi Sad has 300 000 inhabitants [298 139 according to the census in 2002]. Novi Sad is a multi-ethnic place [Serbs, Hungarians, Montenegrins, Slovaks, Ruthanians, Croats, Hebrews, Romany people and others] where national communities are equally presented in the political, public and cultural life. Languages Serbian language and Cyrillic alphabet are officially used in the town. Hungarian, Slovakian and Ruthanian languages and their alphabets are also officially used according to the law and the specific decision of the town's Assembly. Vojvodina is known for its enormous cultural value not only for the Serbs but for all the nations that comprise it [the province is consisted of 6 constituent nations and 30 other nationalities, the most diverse area in Europe after Greater London]. - Fruska Gora- a pilgramige site; located outside Novi Sad on a mountin overlooking Pannonian Plain, it posseses dosens of monasteries of Serbian Orthodox Church built between 15-19th centuries by Serbian settlers from the south. Combining European reinassance with ancient Balkan culture these churches have a big cultural importance as a bridge between so called Southern and Northern Serbs. - Sremski Karlovci- today a town belonging to municipality of Novi Sad, has been a cultural seat of the Serbs in Austria for centuries. It contains the Patriarchate of Serbian Church [approved by Leopold von Austria], the oldest Serbian gymnasium [1791], and was the seat of the Cogress of Holy League in 1699, when great powers [Poland, Austria, Venice] have given this land to Austria for protection. One of the most picturesque sites in the country. - Dundjerski Castle- just like other regions that have belonged to Austria, Vojvodina has more than 20 castles from that period, belonging mostly to Germans, Magyars and some Serbian noble families in the past. Most of them are under protection of the state today. - Palic lake- the oldest tourist attraction in the country, dating back to 1840s, when it was a spa for European nobility. Today it faces its reconstruction trying to achieve its former glory. Most people in Vojvodina, especially the younger and in the cities, can speak and understand at least some English. German is also often taught at school, French is restricted to a very thin elite, but Hungarian remains native to 14 percent of the population and is spoken by many more. If you are studying Serbian, Vojvodina may be your best place to start using it. The speech there is slow and clear, indeed so slow that it has become the butt of jokes. But Serbian is by no means the only language you may hear in that province. With over three quarters of the population now claiming Serbian as their mother tongue, it is true that Vojvodina is no longer the linguistic mosaic that it used to be. But it remains ethnically diverse and many Vojvodinians take pride in preserving their various native languages. No less than six are considered official: Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Croatian, and Rusyn. They may soon be joined by the Serbo-Croatian dialect spoken by the Bunjevci, an ethnic group from northwestern Vojvodina, which is a controversial matter as both Serbs and Croats claim the Bunjevci as their own. German, or rather its dialect called Danube Swabian, was native to one quarter of Vojvodina's population before the Second World War, and spoken by many more. But most ethnic Germans were either deported or killed in the war's aftermath. With just over three thousand local Germans remaining dispersed throughout Vojvodina today, their dialect is all but extinct. Some members of other tiny minorities, hailing from various parts of the Habsburg Empire [the Czechs, the Ukrainians, etc.] and the former Yugoslavia [the Macedonians, the Albanians, etc.] also try to preserve their native languages. Vojvodina is home also to the Roma or Gypsies, many of whom speak their various mother tongues. Last but not least, some of the newest immigrants speak Chinese. Sremski Karlovci In the immediate vicinity of Novi Sad is the town of Sremski Karlovci, a typical town from the end of the 18-th and the beginning of the 19-th century, in the baroque and neo-classical style. The town had been the cultural and educational centre of the Serbs in the Austria-Hungary Empire, in which the peace agreement, between Turkey and Austria and its allies, was signed in 1699.