Private Tour: Mokra Gora and Nostalgia Train 'Shargan 8' Tour

TOUR IS ORGANIZED BY LICENSED TOUR OPERATOR TARATOURS, WHERE ESBa TOURISM IS IT’S TOUR SELLING AGENT.

Few places in the world have three mountains and three rivers. Mokra Gora is just such a place as it sits in the arms of three mountains, Sargan, Zlatibor, Tara, while three rivers pass through it, Beli ( white ) / Crni ( black) Rzav and Kamesina. Mokra Gora has several healing-water springs, among them Bela Voda (white water) spring, known for its high pH value of 11,5 for people with stomach and intestine problems. The water is good for rinsing the nasal mucosa and inflammation of the eyelids, that is why people have declared it the ’eye water’.
 
A must – see place that attracts attention of tourists who visit Mokra Gora is Drvengrad / timber town / on Mecavnik, etno village built by the famous film Director Emir Kusturica. This etno village has an urban form and structure, as it consists of main street, hotel, gallery, library, cinema, pastry shop, restaurant, shop and church. Visitors can breathe in the atmosphere of the ‘woden town’, and taste local food.

Price

TOTAL PRICE

278€ / 3 people (TOUR IS FOR 3 PEOPLE)

Details

What’s included?

  • Transportation
  • A licensed Local tour guide,
  • A ride on nostalgia train,
  • Ticket to Drvengrad

Exclusions

  • (optional) Price for gondola is 12€ per person
  • Personal Expenses

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PROGRAM

 

East of Mokra Gora, there is a village of Kremna known by the prophets Milan and Mitar Tarabic ( 19th century ) who prophesied that ‘…..there will be an iron road with an iron chariot…’This is obviously the famous Cira Train, with its narrow gauge railway (760mm), which was commissioned in 1925, only to be abolished by unreasonable decisions in 1974. It used to connect Uzice to Visegrad, as well as Belgrade to Sarajeo and Dubrovnik. For half a century, this railway kept the door for Mokra Gora open to the world.

 

It took a quarter of a century for yet another prophecy by Mitar Tarabic to come true in the late 19th century : “It will take quite a few years, but the people will remember the iron road again, and they will reconstruct it. Only the road to Visegrad will not be travelled by travellers looking for work, it will be travelled by people looking for entertainment, nice holidays and enjoyment. That time has come. In 1999 the reconstruction began. Today, the steam engine and popular “Cira" drives the altitude difference of 300 meters along a route that is 3,5 kilometers long. The railroad, with its unusual road loop in the shape of number eight passes through impressive regions. It is 15,5 km long with 22 tunnels and around 10 bridges and viaducts.

 

EXCURSION PROGRAM

 

At 9:30 departure in front of hotel after the breakfast to starting point of Gold Gondola – longest gondola in the worl from Zlatibor to highest point of mountain Tornik (1496m/asl). Gondola will pass over untouched Zlatibor nature and lake Ribnica(Optional). This is the best way to see all beauties of Zlatibor. After Gondola ride, travel toward Mokra Gora.  Arrival on main train station of Šargan eight. Narrow guage museum railway from Mokra Gora to Šargan Vitasi will turn guests in the beginning of 20 century when this way of travel was the only one way go somewhere. After 2,5 hours of Šargan eight program next stop is Mećavnik hill and Woodentown- ethno village of famous film director Emir Kusturica and his view on Serbian tradition combined with movie art. Back to hotel.

You will be picked up from your hotel at 09:30 a.m.