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Montenegro, Crna Gora, Black Mountain: the name itself conjures up romance and drama. up romance and drama. name itself conjures Crna Gora, Black Mountain: the Montenegro, Given its natural assets, tourism is vitally important to Montenegro’s future. In that In that is vitally important its natural assets, tourism future. Given to Montenegro’s Going it alone is a brave move for a nation of this size – its entire population of 678,000 – its entire for a nation of this size move Going it alone is a brave

wild herbs, conifers and Mediterranean blossoms. Yes, it really is as magical as it sounds. is as magical really it Yes, blossoms. and Mediterranean wild herbs, conifers There are plenty of both on offer as you explore this perfumed as you explore land, bathed in the scent of of both on offer plenty are There a country where wolves and bears still lurk in forgotten corners. bears still lurk in forgotten and wolves a country where towns and villages where ordinary Montenegrins go about their daily lives. This is, after all, is, after This about their daily lives. go ordinary Montenegrins towns and villages where mountains of Durmitor, the primeval forest of Biogradska Gora National Park or in the many of Biogradskamountains of Durmitor, the primeval forest Gora National Park The upshot for intrepid travellers is that you can easily sidestep the hordes in the rugged is that you can easily sidestep travellers for intrepid upshot The two months of each year, while serving up the rest of the country as bite-sized day trips. while servingtwo months of each year, day trips. as bite-sized of the country up the rest respect it’s done spectacularly well filling its tiny coast with Eastern European sunseekers for European it’s done spectacularly its tiny coast with Eastern well filling respect the current borders. the current as Switzerland’s, canyons nearly as deep as Colorado’s, canyons nearly as deep as as Switzerland’s, smaller than much of years in a mountainous enclave for hundreds the Ottoman Empire Imagine a place with sapphire beaches as spectacular peaks as dramatic as Croatia’s, rugged with sapphire a place Imagine resisting national identity is built around in. Their had plenty of experience people have Црна is something these gutsy city – but toughing it out fill a medium-sized would barely Montenegro Montenegro of Wales and you start two-thirds of Montenegro. the size an area to get a picture towns as old as Greece’s and then wrap it up in a Mediterranean climate and squish it into and climate up in a Mediterranean and then wrap it towns as old as Greece’s MONTENEGRO 576 HIGHLIGHTS Trebinje CROATIA

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