Sutjeska National Park — Attraction in Foča Municipality (RS)

We just visited Sutjeska National Park and thought we'd put up a bit of a report because we also found it very hard to find information. We started off in Tjentiste where you can visit the info centre near Hotel Mladost and see information about the different hikes. You can buy a map or you can just take a photo of the display map and follow the signs once you are in the park. The entrance to the park is from the centre of town and is signed. It cost us 5 marks each and 5 marks for the car to enter.

Many of the more popular hikes start from the Prijevor lookout which is a 20km drive - it's a rough drive that takes about 1-1.5 hours but it is definitely possible in a normal car. The lookout is beautiful and we slept in our camper in the carpark. There are also several small huts for rent that looked really nice. We decided to hike to Trnovacko jezero and it was a well marked and not too difficult (about 1.5-2hrs).

The only issue we had was once we made it down to the lake. We saw signs stating that park fees applied and felt comfortable knowing that we had already paid our entrance. After a quick swim, we started to walk back towards the path to return to our car when a man came out of the small cafe and angrily beckoned us over to him. He shouted at us to show him our passports and pay him money. It turns out that the lake is actually inMontenegro and whether or not he is officially supposed to charge people to hike there, he is. We apologised and explained that we did not realise that we needed to pay or provide our passports and had left them in our car, at which point he became irate and began threatening us with a switchblade knife and trying to take our car keys and bag. We managed to get away from him and ran back up the path.

We have reported this to the National Park and providing that you take your passports and a few euro (1 euro pp according to other people that we spoke to later) you shouldn't have the same problems that we did. We would definitely recommend the National Park - it's...

Sutjeska National Park is a special place with preserved nature and the highest mountains in Bosnia and Herzegovina. There is the Perućica rainforest, the highest peak in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maglić, and the beautiful mountains Zelengora and Volujak. If you want to hike these mountains, Tjentište is a good starting point. Here you can rent accommodation at the Mladost Hotel or in some private apartments. The starting point on Mount Maglić is a poor gravel road and you need to drive one hour from Tjentište. It is similar if you go to Mount Zelengora. I have stayed in Tjentište and climbed Maglić and other mountains around as a mountain guide many times and I am always enchanted by the beauty of the Sutjeska National Park. I advise you to start all the mountain peaks early in the morning and inform yourself about the weather, most of the mountain trails to the peaks are well marked, but there is a lot of wilderness without any markings. Cell phone signal is not available in many places in...

Sutjeska National Park is of course breathing, there's no one who could deny the beauty. Unfortunately we were there at the beginning of June and it was almost unbearable to deal with mosquitos. As we were getting closer to Trnovačko Lake it became worse. In our group of 11 people and 2 dogs nobody excited that there would be so many mosquitos, without any exaggeration if we would dare to make a pause for more than 5 seconds 50-100 mosquitos would get on one person. It was so bad that two people from our group ended up going to the emergency. Nobody was prepared because nobody expected that, even though I don't believe that even doing a bath in Autan would help in this case. All the other hikers we meet were also surprised and even people would work there. Additionally the road is in a really bad condition therefore, we spent too much time in the car, since they get the money from the tickets they should at least...