
Žabljak stands at around 1,450 metres, the highest town in the Balkans, and the neighbourhood near its bus station is where it feels most like a working mountain settlement rather than a resort: timber houses, stacked firewood, and a small market selling cheese, potatoes, honey and forest fruit according to the month. Two hundred metres brings you to the centre and everything in it — bakery, pharmacy, ski rental, the tourist office and the restaurants along the main street.
The mountain starts immediately behind. The Javorovača run sits on the edge of town for beginners and late-afternoon skiing, Savin Kuk's longer descents are two kilometres away, and the same distance in the opposite direction reaches Crno jezero, whose forest loop is the one walk nobody skips. Beyond it, marked paths climb into the Durmitor massif and its eighteen glacial lakes. Summer brings rafting on the Tara, jeep tours on the ring road around the massif and canyoning in Nevidio; winter narrows the town to snow-banked streets and long dinners of kačamak, sausage and honey rakija. Spring and late autumn are quietest and, for walking the lower pastures among the katuns, arguably the best.
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