Wild Balkans

Wolves hunt their prey in the valleys between highranging dunes bears and lynxes wander through dense primeval forest and the big lakes are a magnet for hundreds of bird species That is the socalled Balkan Today the Balkans stand for a Europe that hardly exists elsewhere The mountains of Montenegro harbour one of Europes last primeval forests with trees over 400 years of age In the difficultly accessible hinterland we find the Tara National Park with the deepest gorge in the Karst Mountains the 1300 meters deep Tara gorge Nearby Lake Skadar is home for 270 species of birds no other lake in Europe can claim such diversity Europes last coastal forest area can be found in Albania and in Bulgaria and Romania huge bat colonies live in the cavedotted mountains In Serbia one can cross the European Sahara a desert covering a surface of 30000 hectares