glitch_oz 181 Posted Tuesday at 02:49 Share Posted Tuesday at 02:49 Maybe there's someone here with some tips or experiences of the Peloponnese, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo etc. Not the tourist stuff, coast and islands etc, but mainly the backcountry and Greek "Alps". This 3-week caper was originally planned for 2020 (dooh)...2021 (doooh!) and now postponed to Sept/ Oct 2022 Small group, fly into + start in Athens on a bunch of well setup and serviced DR650s/DRZ400s rentals trucked from a known contact in Zagreb/ Croatia.... Ride the Greek northern mountains and National Parks of the Balkans with some emphasis on historic stuff and food/ drink/ scenery/ local folks and customs/ markets etc Looking for routes and places, points of interest, up to 1/2 day hikes and back-country attractions etc. The first part is roughly a 9-day expanded version of the Greek ACT-route https://www.adventurecountrytracks.com/act-greece/ by adding a bunch of historical sites, a 2-day stay with a local family in the mountains south of Patras and more dirt + gravel of the High Country. I'm looking for places and routes from around Ioanina/Greece into southern Macedonia's lake district Lake Prespa/ Lake Ohrid to the Mavrovo National Park. Eastern Albania along the Drin River Gorge into the Valbona NP/ Theth etc. and Montenegro's Backcountry / Northeastern NP's into Serbia/ Croatia somewhere. Mixed surface ADVriding, no Hard-Enduro, no main roads, no tourist hives. Drop off bikes in Zagreb 3 weeks later and fly back to AUS/NZ via the Middle East. Finally dug up some pretty decent 1:200.000 maps from a tiny publisher in Athens some months ago. Ideas? Takers? Sure... lots of TT fluff here, but also some exceptional shots and filming. (English and subtitles), 65mins 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Grasshopper's Ride 3,208 Posted Tuesday at 04:06 Share Posted Tuesday at 04:06 Wow, all of a sudden I feel so small sitting in my hole in the world. Sounds like an amazing trip, sorry I can not offer up any information, I'll just sit here and watch you be awesome. Link to post Share on other sites
glitch_oz 181 Posted Tuesday at 05:00 Author Share Posted Tuesday at 05:00 Same here That CoVid hole sure is getting tighter and tighter. And it better be a great trip, it's been in the making for long enough 1 Link to post Share on other sites
XTreme 7,463 Posted Tuesday at 06:32 Share Posted Tuesday at 06:32 Looks amazing! Link to post Share on other sites
Buckster 892 Posted Tuesday at 07:08 Share Posted Tuesday at 07:08 Weirdly on the map it looks like Yugoslavia. Link to post Share on other sites
glitch_oz 181 Posted Tuesday at 07:59 Author Share Posted Tuesday at 07:59 49 minutes ago, Buckster said: Weirdly on the map it looks like Yugoslavia. Link to post Share on other sites
Bruce 3,512 Posted Tuesday at 10:39 Share Posted Tuesday at 10:39 Zaghori mountain park 1 Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 494 Posted Tuesday at 11:49 Share Posted Tuesday at 11:49 7 hours ago, Grasshopper's Ride said: Wow, all of a sudden I feel so small sitting in my hole in the world. Sounds like an amazing trip, sorry I can not offer up any information, I'll just sit here and watch you be awesome. back to riding the himalayan 2 Link to post Share on other sites
glitch_oz 181 Posted Tuesday at 23:24 Author Share Posted Tuesday at 23:24 12 hours ago, Bruce said: Zaghori mountain park Thanks. Each time that map comes up there seems to be another bag of goodies to be found 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Tym 5,170 Posted Wednesday at 08:50 Share Posted Wednesday at 08:50 Drop me off on Lesbos and i;ll hold the fort down, water the dogs stuff like that! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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