Financial Times Brings Walking to “Nemunians”

With pain in our feet, and the lungs that were erupting, we stopped at the rocky top of Mount Djeravica, the highest mountain in Kosovo. It was a worthwhile effort. From our view of the 8714m we surveyed some of the wildest, most spectacular, and least broken landscapes left in Europe”, he writes.

Fletcher further says that, “below the blue sky, and with fresh air, we admired the peaks and the backs, and the green valleys that stretched out in every direction. No railway model builder will be able to create such epic landscape”.

This remote and mysterious mountain distance, most of it accessible only on foot, offers more than beauty. It houses ancient shepherds and herds and shepherding traditions that have not yet been destroyed by mechanization. In isolated villages, traces continue to survive a code of centuries of behavior that combines extremes of punishment and generosity, the article says.

Fletcher further explains what had caught most of his attention.

It was the name of Nemuna Bjeshca who first caught my attention. A Google search showed me that they lay at the borders of Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro”, Fletcher says.

Fletcher shows that he has since met at the airport with Virtue Gacafer, the person who helped Western journalists during the Kosovo War, and now organises walking in Bessca and Nemuna, provides transportation to tourists, instructs them and provides them with accommodations.

The following can be seen from Fletcher's trip and his impressions of “The Benesks of Nemuna”.