Enjoy two weeks of urban adventure in the heart of the Balkan peninsula. Explore the cities of Belgrade (Serbia), Novi Sad (Serbia) and Split (Croatia) and grab your exclusive VIP pass for EXIT festival, the best summer music event in Europe. End your journey with a 6 day yacht cruise on the mesmerizing Adriatic coast.
No sleep! Do as the locals do!
Experience the Balkans outside of the guidebook. We don’t want you to be a tourist, more like a friend of the family. We want you to talk gibberish waiting outside a toilet in a Belgrade underground boat club at night, roam the suburban peasant markets in the morning or just end up sleeping on someone else’s couch while the party is still on. We want you to hit the road, sail on a river boat to Novi Sad and jump out at the 18th century Petrovaradin fortress, for the best music festival in Europe.
Yes, we want you to dance. And if you get laid on the way, we won’t mind – if your new significant other becomes so precious to you, they might end up with a free pass for your yachting cruise. Yes, a cruise, around the Adriatic sea. Sounds not too bad? Well, at least if you don’t fall over the deck, overwhelmed with Croatian rakija.
A beach near Dubrovnik, Croatia
Don’t worry, there’s more coming. We want you to relax. In case you happen not to remember afterwards where you’ve been and what the hell you’ve been doing, we’ll capture it all on film.
BTOUR 2012: Off the Beaten Track
Serbia, Croatia, Adriatic Coast (July 7 – 22)
Departure date: Friday, July 6
Arrival in Belgrade, Serbia: Saturday, July 7
Accommodation in Belgrade: July 7 – 11
B-boat to Novi Sad: July 12
Accommodation in Novi Sad during the EXIT Festival: July 12 – 15
Transportation to BG airport: July 16
Yacht cruise on the Adriatic coast, Croatia: July 16 – 21
Accommodation in Split: July 21
Flight back: Sun July 22
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and by far the largest city of Serbia with a population of more than 1,6 million. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. Its name in English translates to White city.
In 1521 Belgrade was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and it frequently passed from Ottoman to Habsburg rule. Belgrade was again named the capital of Serbia in 1841, with the north of the city remaining an Habsburg outpost until 1918, when it was merged into the capital city. It was the capital of Yugoslavia (in various forms of governments) from its creation in 1918, to its final dissolution in 2006. Today, Belgrade is also known as the most vibrant Eastern European city with an exciting nightlife and club culture. Read the New York Times and Lonely Planet articles.
Novi Sad / EXIT Festival
Novi Sad was founded in 1694, when Serb merchants formed a colony across the Danube from the Petrovaradin fortress, a Habsburg strategic military post. The city has maintained its multi-cultural identity, with Serbs, Hungarians and Germans being the main ethnic groups. Today, Novi Sad is an industrial and financial centre of the Serbian economy, as well as a major cultural hub.
Since 2000, it has been hosting one of the best music festivals in the world – EXIT, a four-day music spectacle taking place every year in July, inside the city’s core – the epic Petrovaradin fortress. Last year edition included Arcade Fire, Pulp, Jamiroquai, Portishead, Grinderman, M.I.A., Editors, House of Pain, Santigold, Bad Religion, Kreator, Beirut (band), Big Audio Dynamite, Amadou & Mariam, Go Back to the Zoo, Underworld, Deadmau5, Groove Armada, Fedde Le Grand, Magnetic Man, Tiga, James Zabiela, Digitalism, Carl Craig and many, many more.
www.exitfest.org
Split
Splt is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centred around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its bay and port. Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and the second-largest city of Croatia. Spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings, Split’s greater area includes the surrounding seaside towns as well.
An intraregional transport hub, the city is a link to numerous Adriatic islands and the Apennine peninsula, as well as a popular tourist destination. Split is also one of the oldest cities in the area. While it is traditionally considered just over 1,700 years old counting from the construction of Diocletian’s Palace in AD 305, archaeological research relating to the original founding of the city as the Greek colony of Aspálathos (Aσπάλαθος) in the 6th century BC, establishes the urban tradition of the area as being several centuries older.
Croatian Adriatic coast
Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Apennine Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges.
The Adriatic Sea is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from the Strait of Otranto, where it connects to the Ionian Sea, to the northwest and the Po Valley. Its coasts belong to Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania. The Adriatic contains more than a thousand islands, largely located along its eastern coast.
