What an exciting, interesting jam packed time we are having in Istria. We were extremely lucky to enjoy a lovely boat ride over to the island of Brijuni. This is where Tito built his personal summer residence where he resided for six months of the year. It is now a national park that still houses this residence. It is also home to an animal safari that is occupied by exotic animals that...
Our first day in Croatia has been absolutely amazing!!! We are in the beautiful Pula in Istra. Our morning was spent partaking in a lovely walking tour through Pula town which included a visit to the spectacular Pula Arena, a colosseum from Roman times. This was very welcome after being on the bus for 12 hours the previous day. The increase in temperature has also been very noticeable and the clear blue...
We have now left Kragujevac to head across the border to Croatia and on to Pula, stopping at Beograd for a short visit on the way. Farewell Serbia, it really has been a wonderful five days. The first photo below shows our Tarara Folklore Ensemble, Nenad our teacher, Robert our trip leader and Bojan our guide and chief organiser during our time here in Serbia – Mara Blucher. The dancers, Nenad, Robert...
Our last full day in Serbia has been absolutely amazing. We got to spend the day in Topola on the day of their village slava (celebrations). This area is known as a quality vine growing and wine producing region and therefore we began the day by visiting the King’s Winery (and shop). We then went into Topola town where we hiked through the town markets up the hill to Oplenac where...
What an exciting full day in Čačak! We started off the day with some sightseeing around various historical sites learning about the history of this region in Serbia. This included a stop in the middle for a delicious traditional Serbian lunch. We then had the pleasure of performing alongside some amazing local kolo groups on a beautiful outside stage to a courtyard full of locals. The highlight of this performance being that...
Our time here in Serbia is not disappointing us. We left Kragujevac for the day and took a little trip to Mečavnik. This included a lovely ride on a steam train through spectacular mountain scenery, lunch at a beautiful mountain village and then a visit and subsequent shopping at Zlatibor Market on the way home. We then had a little down time to rest up before the massive day we have planned...
First CONCERT of the tour. Thank you Kragujevac for being an amazing audience. We loved being immersed in so much culture and talent and we loved the reception we received from our performances. It was very nerve racking for us to perform back home for the first time, but we did it and we feel like we did it well!! We also got to perform the New Zealand Dalmatian Kolo in the...
We have had an amazing FIRST DAY of our tour. After the longest journey to arrive (4 hour prior to flight check in for costume inspection with customs ~ 18 hour flight to Doha ~ 7 hour lay over in Doha ~ 5 hour flight to Beograd ~ 2 hour bus trip to Kragujevac) we finally made it. When we arrived in KRAGUJEVAC it was around 2pm local time. We had around...
This time next week, we will be on the other side of the world beginning our tour 🌍 Meet the crew: Zoran, Ella, Daniel, Elena, Andras, Vanya, Nenad (tutor), Roland, Nina, Marin, Mara, Kivić (mascot), Nataša, Bojan, Natalie, Pero, Dunja, Aleksandar & Sara Day 1 : And we have arrived! Click here to read all about it. ...
