Fruska Gora- Vojvodinas Alps :)

 
 
 
 

I met a guy in Subotica, who told me he was an active member of Suboticas alpinist clubs and who invited me to come to hikes in the Serbian mountains. The first mountain in Serbia is Fruska Gora, near Novi Sad, 100 km south of Subotica. The second one another 100 km further. You have to know Vojvodina is mainly just flat. Really flat. There is not even a hill of 3, 4 meters. So Fruska Gora is what we would call a forest in Switzerland. Okay, a forest on a hill. But which forest in Switzerland isn’t on a hill?
In Vojvodina they call it mountain. So on Sunday I went with the Novi Sad Alpinist Club for a 20 km hike in Fruska Gora. It is a really beautiful place. A chain of hills all covered by beautiful forest, with very high trees, that now, in the beginning of spring, have this shiny bright green leaves.
Still it was like a joke, having to follow a mountain guide for a simple walk through the forest. We were a group of almost 40 persons and walking pretty slow, so when I wanted to walk a little faster one of the guide women, called me back, saying: “Stay behind me! The alpinist codex says that everyone has to follow behind the guide!” (Maiann, han di grad vermisst, het di gern chli agsmilet in dem Moment und ab dem Chnuschti dr Chopf gschuettlet). Yeah, what an alpinist codex for some hills!
Still, it’s a beautiful place.