Plav

A few hours

1. 1Kula Redžepagića — two stone storeys with walls over a metre thick, a pine čardak added on top, and loopholes spread over every wall; a museum since 1979
2. 2The Carska džamija of 1471 on the Meteriz rise: turf and timber, a 10 m wooden minaret rising out of the roof, and a tarih of 1869 above the carved doors — the only one in the Plav–Gusinje area cut into wood instead of stone
3. 3Bećiragića kula, raised in 1899, which carries what the tourist board calls the longest and finest calligraphic inscription in the region — two panels of stone under a crescent and star
4. 4Down to the lake shore, a few minutes below the square

Three monuments and a lake, all within a walk. Two hours cover the town.

One full day

1. 1The town first, then out 2 km to Brezojevice
2. 2Sv. Trojice under the Gradac hill — rebuilt in 1567 on the walls of an older monastery, single-nave, no dome and no belfry on the church itself
3. 3The Velemun botanical garden next to it: about 250 Prokletije endemics and relicts, planted from 1991 by a chemistry teacher
4. 4Back for the water — the splav raft, a kayak, or a fly rod on the Lim and the Ljuča

Monastery, garden and lake make a full day without leaving the basin.

A weekend

1. 1Saturday: the 18 km up to Hridsko jezero at 1,970 m, a reserve of the national park set between Veliki and Mali Hrid in munika and molika pine
2. 2The lake holds 245 species of algae, 78 of them first recorded in Montenegro right there, and an alpine newt; the story locally is that fairies bathe in it
3. 3Sunday: Visitor, 2,211 m, for the view straight down onto Lake Plav and the basin — and Visitor’s own lake, with its grassy island that floats
4. 4Or pick up the Peaks of the Balkans, 192 km through Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo, which the Plav tourist board runs as its main product

The town is the base; the reason to stay two nights is above 1,900 m.