PARC NATIONAL DE LA DRINA

This 63 ^km2 national park (Nacionalni Park Drina/Национални Парк Drina) runs 40 km along the west bank of the Drina from Lake Perućac (12 km east of Skelani). V-shaped, it hugs the protruding part of Serbia, which is home to Tara National Park. Created in 2017, it remains poorly developed, with few marked trails and no roads to cross it. The most spectacular part is the Drina canyon (11 km long). It is the third deepest canyon in the world after the Colorado (USA) and Tara (Montenegro) canyons. It can be reached by boat on mini-cruises organized by Taratours. The scenery is grandiose, especially at the confluence of the Crin Potok ("black stream"), where the walls reach 976 m in height. Throughout the park, the steep terrain makes for long journeys, with peaks such as Ljutica (1,238 m) to the north and Stijene (1,244 m) to the west. Here you'll find the Bosnian hamlets of Međe, Klotjevac and Luka. But the local police forbid the inhabitants to rebuild their houses destroyed during the last war, on the pretext of preserving nature. Among the 635 plant species, the forests consist mainly of black pine, beech and oak. The Serbian spruce (Picea omorika), an endemic tree from the Tertiary era, also grows here. The fauna is rich: Danube salmon, golden eagle, endemic Pančić grasshopper (Pyrgomorphula serbica), brown bear, wolf..