We're leaving on a trip from Budapest to Trnovacko lake. If we start walking from Dragos sedlo, is it possible to go through Perusica and get to the Trnovacko lake by the evening? Thank you for your advice! Cheers!
Hello!
Yes, it is possible. It will be a long day, but you can do it in one day. The only thing is that your car will stay quite far away and management of the park is not allowing entrance to Perucica without their guide..
The other option is to walk from Prijevor. You pass Dragos Sedlo and continue by dirt road to the first turning right and then you continue to the end of the road below Maglic peak.
Hope I was not too late to give you this information.
Great pictures! I am planning to visit Sutjeska and the surroundings soon, with a family. Is it possible to go to Dragos Sedlo and further towards Trnovacko lake by my own car? I've heard of some necessary guides...
Alternatively I will go with my MTB, but in this case I will have to leave my family in Tjentiste.
You can drive all the way to Dragos Sedlo and Prijevor below Maglic peak. The road is not the best, but still it is drivable. Anyway be careful, cause after every winter road is full of holes and needs certain reparations.
Prijevor is closest you can drive to reach Trnovacko lake and from there you have 2, maybe 2.5h walk to the lake.
It is great area, for hiking but for biking too.
Hi justahiker,
we are a group of italian scouts and we would like to go hiking with tents in Sutjeska for around 4-5 days this summer.
Is there any route you can suggest us that can be started and ended in a village/town with connection to Sarajevo or Dubrovnik?
We will not have a car (we are 28) so we need something that can be done by feet + bus only.
Thank you very much :)
Hello!
To reach Sutjeska Park is not very simple, because only regular bus line is one from Sarajevo to Trebinje and the other way (passing Sutjeska on its way).
If you do not have a vehicle, my suggestion is to walk from the valley of Tjentiste up to Suha and from there to Trnovacko lake. On the lake you can make a camp (you have a water spring there) and from there you can make some great hikes to Volujak, Trnovacki Durmitor and Maglic (highest Bosnian peak, 2,386m).
The only thing is that in that area are no shops or any possibility to buy anything, so you will have to carry all your food from the valley for all days of your stay at the lake. The only way back is to come down the same way you hiked to the lake.
I have a couple of questions:
- is there the possibillity of getting a map of the park?
- how can we treck from Trnovacko lake to Perucica forest, the idea is to have a "base camp" at Trnovacko?
- is it possible to buy food (cheese, slibovitz...)from the mentioned farmers in the area?
Thank you in advance!
Hi there!
1. Unfortunately, no regular maps of the park you can buy.
2. As you drive from Tjentiste to Prijevor (start hiking point for Trnovacko lake), you pass Perucica forest on your right.
Trnovacko lake is great base camp for ascents to Volujak (2,336m), Trnovacki Durmitor (2,246m) and Maglic (2,386m) highest Bosnian peak.
3. The food and any other supplies you should buy in Tjentiste valley or somewhere before. As you start driving uphill toward Dragos sedlo and Prijevor, no more shops!
Enjoy, but be careful.
No maps which complicates the visit to this gorgeous area.
However from Trnovacko lake to summits of Volujak and Maglic, you have a fairy good marked paths.
Hi there!
What is the best way to get there from Sarajevo (we are a group of 4 - 6 people without a car)? Bus Sarajevo - Trebinje should leave from Lukavica at 7:45, but we should arrive to Sarajevo by train from Budapest maybe at 21:15. I have heard about possibility to rent a combi for 8 person for 80€, but I don´t know where and how.
Second, I guess walking from Dragoš through Perucica to Skakavac and then to Prijevor is prohibited, but possible. The question is how to avoid the park guides ;-)
But my main question: Is it possible to walk from Tjentište to Donje Bare lake using any shorter path then the "official" paved one, which is 20 km long?
Thx, Pavel
Hello there, my friend!
I see you did some research about the transport and area, which is good. Unfortunately, there are no regular bus lines here. So as you said, first morning bus is a bit before 8.00am. If you arrive late by train, you will have to spend a night somewhere.
I will suggest you, to make your life easier, to rent a vehicle (obviously in this case you need van). The roads in Sutjeska park are all unpaved, so you would need somewhat higher vehicle.
To reach any hiking start point to any of the peaks or lakes, you have to drive about an hour from the valley. Which means on foot, you will need more than two hours walking, depending how much gear you carry with you.
Avoiding a park rangers?? It is possible, but as a mountain guide, I should not suggest you that... ;)
You have plenty of hiking options, beside Perucica, where you do not have to pay any extra money, except regular entrance ticket (2,5EUR)...
To save yourself a time, don't walk to Donje Bare. You have much more to do up there, instead of walking through the forest without much views... :)
Other option is to walk on opposite side toward Trnovacko lake, make a camp there, and then ascend Volujak or Maglic mountain (highest in the country).
It pretty much depends how long you plan to stay there...
Anyway, be smart and enjoy your stay there!
Justahiker.
I've read all the comments and first of all thanks for the lots of info!
Me and a friend of mine want to spend a couple of days in Sutjeska, en route from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik. Could you please help is with a few advice?
1) Our train arrives from budapest at 13th evening, and we plan to hitchhike from Sarajevo to Trestinje in the early hours of August 14th. Do you think we have real chance for succesful autostop to Tjentiste or is that a bald idea? If it is, how much is a bus fare if there is any scheduled bus?
2) Is Tjentiste the "entrance" of the national park? Can we pay for all the entrance fees there?
3) We don't have special directions, but we would prefer a trip which includes: Perucica forest, Trnovacko lake (where we may take a night of rest in tent, is it safe and permitted?), and then we would like to climb one of the closer mountains. Could you help us with a route-advice with approximated time confines?
(We aren't too experienced mountaineers but we've hiked before in mountain areas and we are able to cover 25-30 km/day with equipment on our back, is Voljak or Maglic a realistic option for us? How much time may it take?)
4) Are there any landmines in the area? :)
5) After we've checked everything we wanted, we would like to set fort straight to Dubrovnik. What route would you suggest from our ending point? How big is the traffic on road no 20 (which leads to Dubrovnik as far as I see)?
We would like to start our journey from sarajevo on 14th, and it would be good te get to Dubrovnik by the evening of 16th, do you think, it could be set in accordance with our plans? :)
Sorry for the ton of questions, but we wouldn't like to go there hazardously :)
No problem, everything solved itself :) Our trip was fairly successful, the place is beatiful and we managed to visit everything we planned.
Soon me or my travelmate will post here a guide with some more photos and a map-like thing, with certain distance-data.
I have to ask you, have you camped at the lake when Nina and her friend (two girls from Serbia) have been there (in yellow tent)??
I presume your tent could be the one just above theirs!
:)
I do not know if you remember, but one afternoon the group of 6 people arrived to the lake. I was with a friend in tent not far away from theirs.
Nina told us that that two guys who camped nearby are Hungarians. So I realized it could be you. :)
Hope you enjoyed it!
Hello!
We use this road for biking, but you must have proper mountain bike.
It is quite ascent, on gravel road, but definitely worth of doing it. Distance is approximately about 20km from Tjentiste to Prijevor!
5ani - Jan 26, 2007 10:26 am - Voted 10/10
OdlicnoVec sam prije citala, ne sjecam se da li na Zone ili Bjelasnici, tvoju reportazu i uzivala u slikama.
justahiker - Jan 26, 2007 3:32 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: OdlicnoI na zonama, i na Bjelasnici... :)
Pa hajde rekoh da napravim i englesku varijantu, pa da stavim ovdje...
Hvala!!
koskoci - Sep 3, 2009 5:16 pm - Voted 10/10
trip planningWe're leaving on a trip from Budapest to Trnovacko lake. If we start walking from Dragos sedlo, is it possible to go through Perusica and get to the Trnovacko lake by the evening? Thank you for your advice! Cheers!
justahiker - Sep 15, 2009 10:08 am - Hasn't voted
Re: trip planningHello!
Yes, it is possible. It will be a long day, but you can do it in one day. The only thing is that your car will stay quite far away and management of the park is not allowing entrance to Perucica without their guide..
The other option is to walk from Prijevor. You pass Dragos Sedlo and continue by dirt road to the first turning right and then you continue to the end of the road below Maglic peak.
Hope I was not too late to give you this information.
Greetings, my friend!!
ris - Apr 29, 2010 5:58 pm - Hasn't voted
access to Trnovacko lakeGreat pictures! I am planning to visit Sutjeska and the surroundings soon, with a family. Is it possible to go to Dragos Sedlo and further towards Trnovacko lake by my own car? I've heard of some necessary guides...
Alternatively I will go with my MTB, but in this case I will have to leave my family in Tjentiste.
justahiker - Apr 30, 2010 2:51 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: access to Trnovacko lakeHello Ris!
You can drive all the way to Dragos Sedlo and Prijevor below Maglic peak. The road is not the best, but still it is drivable. Anyway be careful, cause after every winter road is full of holes and needs certain reparations.
Prijevor is closest you can drive to reach Trnovacko lake and from there you have 2, maybe 2.5h walk to the lake.
It is great area, for hiking but for biking too.
P.S. Mozda sam mogao pisati i na nasem jeziku??
Greetings and all the best my friend!
Samer aka justahiker!
Sarajevo.
bradipo9 - May 20, 2012 7:14 pm - Voted 10/10
Scout routeHi justahiker,
we are a group of italian scouts and we would like to go hiking with tents in Sutjeska for around 4-5 days this summer.
Is there any route you can suggest us that can be started and ended in a village/town with connection to Sarajevo or Dubrovnik?
We will not have a car (we are 28) so we need something that can be done by feet + bus only.
Thank you very much :)
justahiker - May 21, 2012 2:31 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Scout routeHello!
To reach Sutjeska Park is not very simple, because only regular bus line is one from Sarajevo to Trebinje and the other way (passing Sutjeska on its way).
If you do not have a vehicle, my suggestion is to walk from the valley of Tjentiste up to Suha and from there to Trnovacko lake. On the lake you can make a camp (you have a water spring there) and from there you can make some great hikes to Volujak, Trnovacki Durmitor and Maglic (highest Bosnian peak, 2,386m).
The only thing is that in that area are no shops or any possibility to buy anything, so you will have to carry all your food from the valley for all days of your stay at the lake. The only way back is to come down the same way you hiked to the lake.
blutok - Jun 3, 2012 3:30 am - Hasn't voted
Trnovacko - PerucicaHello!
I have a couple of questions:
- is there the possibillity of getting a map of the park?
- how can we treck from Trnovacko lake to Perucica forest, the idea is to have a "base camp" at Trnovacko?
- is it possible to buy food (cheese, slibovitz...)from the mentioned farmers in the area?
Thank you in advance!
justahiker - Jun 4, 2012 9:53 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Trnovacko - PerucicaHi there!
1. Unfortunately, no regular maps of the park you can buy.
2. As you drive from Tjentiste to Prijevor (start hiking point for Trnovacko lake), you pass Perucica forest on your right.
Trnovacko lake is great base camp for ascents to Volujak (2,336m), Trnovacki Durmitor (2,246m) and Maglic (2,386m) highest Bosnian peak.
3. The food and any other supplies you should buy in Tjentiste valley or somewhere before. As you start driving uphill toward Dragos sedlo and Prijevor, no more shops!
Enjoy, but be careful.
No maps which complicates the visit to this gorgeous area.
However from Trnovacko lake to summits of Volujak and Maglic, you have a fairy good marked paths.
Good luck!
Paveltm - Jul 13, 2012 9:06 am - Hasn't voted
Sutjeska NPHi there!
What is the best way to get there from Sarajevo (we are a group of 4 - 6 people without a car)? Bus Sarajevo - Trebinje should leave from Lukavica at 7:45, but we should arrive to Sarajevo by train from Budapest maybe at 21:15. I have heard about possibility to rent a combi for 8 person for 80€, but I don´t know where and how.
Second, I guess walking from Dragoš through Perucica to Skakavac and then to Prijevor is prohibited, but possible. The question is how to avoid the park guides ;-)
But my main question: Is it possible to walk from Tjentište to Donje Bare lake using any shorter path then the "official" paved one, which is 20 km long?
Thx, Pavel
justahiker - Jul 14, 2012 11:44 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Sutjeska NPHello there, my friend!
I see you did some research about the transport and area, which is good. Unfortunately, there are no regular bus lines here. So as you said, first morning bus is a bit before 8.00am. If you arrive late by train, you will have to spend a night somewhere.
I will suggest you, to make your life easier, to rent a vehicle (obviously in this case you need van). The roads in Sutjeska park are all unpaved, so you would need somewhat higher vehicle.
To reach any hiking start point to any of the peaks or lakes, you have to drive about an hour from the valley. Which means on foot, you will need more than two hours walking, depending how much gear you carry with you.
Avoiding a park rangers?? It is possible, but as a mountain guide, I should not suggest you that... ;)
You have plenty of hiking options, beside Perucica, where you do not have to pay any extra money, except regular entrance ticket (2,5EUR)...
To save yourself a time, don't walk to Donje Bare. You have much more to do up there, instead of walking through the forest without much views... :)
Other option is to walk on opposite side toward Trnovacko lake, make a camp there, and then ascend Volujak or Maglic mountain (highest in the country).
It pretty much depends how long you plan to stay there...
Anyway, be smart and enjoy your stay there!
Justahiker.
iszlaiadam - Aug 8, 2012 5:34 pm - Hasn't voted
2 hungarians - sutjeskaHi justahiker!
I've read all the comments and first of all thanks for the lots of info!
Me and a friend of mine want to spend a couple of days in Sutjeska, en route from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik. Could you please help is with a few advice?
1) Our train arrives from budapest at 13th evening, and we plan to hitchhike from Sarajevo to Trestinje in the early hours of August 14th. Do you think we have real chance for succesful autostop to Tjentiste or is that a bald idea? If it is, how much is a bus fare if there is any scheduled bus?
2) Is Tjentiste the "entrance" of the national park? Can we pay for all the entrance fees there?
3) We don't have special directions, but we would prefer a trip which includes: Perucica forest, Trnovacko lake (where we may take a night of rest in tent, is it safe and permitted?), and then we would like to climb one of the closer mountains. Could you help us with a route-advice with approximated time confines?
(We aren't too experienced mountaineers but we've hiked before in mountain areas and we are able to cover 25-30 km/day with equipment on our back, is Voljak or Maglic a realistic option for us? How much time may it take?)
4) Are there any landmines in the area? :)
5) After we've checked everything we wanted, we would like to set fort straight to Dubrovnik. What route would you suggest from our ending point? How big is the traffic on road no 20 (which leads to Dubrovnik as far as I see)?
We would like to start our journey from sarajevo on 14th, and it would be good te get to Dubrovnik by the evening of 16th, do you think, it could be set in accordance with our plans? :)
Sorry for the ton of questions, but we wouldn't like to go there hazardously :)
justahiker - Aug 18, 2012 11:04 am - Hasn't voted
Re: 2 hungarians - sutjeskaHello dear friend!
Sorry for late reply, but I was out off Sarajevo and internet connection for a while.
Hope you had successful trip!
All the best!
iszlaiadam - Sep 12, 2012 6:29 am - Hasn't voted
Re: 2 hungarians - sutjeskaHi!
No problem, everything solved itself :) Our trip was fairly successful, the place is beatiful and we managed to visit everything we planned.
Soon me or my travelmate will post here a guide with some more photos and a map-like thing, with certain distance-data.
justahiker - Sep 15, 2012 11:53 am - Hasn't voted
Re: 2 hungarians - sutjeskaI have to ask you, have you camped at the lake when Nina and her friend (two girls from Serbia) have been there (in yellow tent)??
I presume your tent could be the one just above theirs!
iszlaiadam - Sep 16, 2012 12:14 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: 2 hungarians - sutjeskaYeah, that was exactly us! :) But how did you learn about that part?
justahiker - Sep 23, 2012 12:57 am - Hasn't voted
Re: 2 hungarians - sutjeska:)
I do not know if you remember, but one afternoon the group of 6 people arrived to the lake. I was with a friend in tent not far away from theirs.
Nina told us that that two guys who camped nearby are Hungarians. So I realized it could be you. :)
Hope you enjoyed it!
birches - Mar 20, 2013 4:15 pm - Hasn't voted
Biking?Hello there,
Just wondering, would the road between Tjentiste and Prijevor be okay for bicycles? And do you have any idea of the distance in kilometers?
Hvala!
justahiker - Mar 24, 2013 5:47 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Biking?Hello!
We use this road for biking, but you must have proper mountain bike.
It is quite ascent, on gravel road, but definitely worth of doing it. Distance is approximately about 20km from Tjentiste to Prijevor!
Take care and enjoy!