Kopaonik, Serbia and Montenegro

Gail Warrander from SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO writes:

Mette
We go from Pristina to Kopaonik all the time but you have to have a Serbian entry stamp due to Serbian politics. Annoying as it means going out into Macedonia and into Serbia and then into Kosovo. It's because Serbs don't recognise the Kosovo UNMIK borders.
A pity that politics gets in the way of a good ski.
There is another way to get to Kopaonik if you don't have a stamp and that's along with Kosovar serbs - they will make sure you get across the border. Ask a friendly K Serb in Mitrovica and they would find you a taxi driver to sort this out. Technically it's not really legal but...you would be spending money in Serbia.
Sorry you didn't like the Pristina hotels. You probably had the wrong hotel - Ambasador, Royal, Ora, Prishtina are VERY nice indeed catering to internationals.
Answer - buy the Bradt travel guides - one for Serbia and one for Kosovo. Then you don't make the stamp or hotel mistakes! I wrote the Kosovo guide. It is very detailed with lots of places to go.
Pristina is no war zone. I have lived as an international for 5 years and plenty of my Danish friends enjoy it. OK, so it's not Belgrade but it's a lot better than some other towns in, say, Southern Serbia or Northern Albania.
Gail

2008-01-22

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