Rafting & safari Tara Canyon

Time Schedule for This Offer

DAY ONE

Welcoming our guests until 7:00 PM at our Rafting Center Drina-Tara (recommended, non-binding schedule). Our camp is located 18 km from Foča, on the riverbank. Upon arrival, you will have accommodation in bungalows, free afternoon, and evening. Our rafting center has well-maintained small fields for football and volleyball, as well as a path with benches along the river. The complex is located right on the bank with a restaurant and terraces overlooking the river. Of all its 346 kilometers, the Drina is the most beautiful at this location!

Dinner is around 8:00 PM, evening by the fire with music as desired. For dinner, you will have the opportunity to try various specialties characteristic of this region, prepared on-site from fresh organic ingredients from nearby villages and the Tara Canyon itself!

DAY TWO

Outdoor Hiking Tour + Photo Safari on The Top of Tara Canyon

Breakfast until 09:30 with specialties of this region that you won't have the opportunity to try anywhere else! Homemade prosciutto, hot "uštipci" with cream cheese, and bread baked under the "sač" are just a small hint of the richness of our menu.

Departure with our jeeps towards Tara Canyon, in the direction of Meštrevac, Ljubišnja, and Vranovina mountains. The journey itself is a special attraction, as we pass through incredible landscapes and unique sceneries. After a 20 km drive, we reach the village of Velenići and the hamlet of Podgrad, located at about 1000 meters above sea level, where the Arabian horse stud farm is situated.

Here, we have two options for the continuation of the day depending on weather conditions for driving to Meštrevac and the canyon plateau, the group's wishes, and agreement with us.

Option 1:

The first option is a walk along the edge of the canyon, directly from the stud farm to the ruins of a medieval town, as well as the ruins of a medieval church, offering a panoramic view of Mount Maglić, Tara Canyon, and all the way to Zelengora. Afterwards, we have free time at the stud farm where optionally we can choose zip-lining with via ferrata or horseback riding. At the stud farm, we spend time enjoying the beautiful view, and lunch is planned from 14:00 onwards. In this first option, we stay at the stud farm until 16:00, after which we return to our Rafting Center Drina-Tara. The first option of the excursion is what we plan according to our established practice because in this option, guests have enough time for the mentioned optional activities.

Here, you can optionally choose horseback riding or one of the biggest attractions in the canyon, which is zip-lining and via ferrata, stretched on the very edge of the canyon over 800 meters above the river! Only for the brave! Just kidding, of course, but you will see for yourself the magnificence of the view and experience the greatest adrenaline rush of your life!

Optional outdoor activities:

• Horse riding at the horse stud, arranged on-site (1 hour from €20).
• Zip-Line above the Tara Canyon.
• Via Ferrata in the Tara River Canyon.

Via Ferrata & Zip-Line: 35€

Zip-line: 400 meters in length, 600m above the Tara Canyon.
Via Ferrata: rope bridge, 150 meters along the canyon's edge.

We spend 2 to 3 hours at the horse stud farm, enjoying nature or optional horseback riding.

On The Tara Canyon

Horse stud farm at the Tara Canyon

Option 2:

In option 2, it is not possible to fit in zip-lining or horseback riding due to time constraints. Option 2 is to continue the drive for another eight kilometers towards the peaks of the canyon, to the village of Dulin Brijeg, and reach the sharp right edge of Tara Canyon. The drive to the top of the canyon takes another half an hour approximately. Along the way to the top of the canyon, we make a stop at a rich spring of drinking water called Vrela. At Vrela, there used to be about twenty mills-watermills where the villagers from the Tara Canyon used to grind grains.

In the village of Dulin Brijeg, we leave the vehicles and start hiking towards the viewpoints that will take your breath away! The area is located at about 1500 meters above sea level, and the canyon sharply cuts through, forming the deepest part of the Tara River course.

We enter the coniferous forest. Through a fairytale-like path, we reach the first viewpoint called Pogledine, located at 1400 meters above sea level, from where all the villages in the canyon can be seen. We stay at Pogledine for about 20 minutes, then continue walking along the edge of the canyon to the viewpoint Pejovine, offering a panoramic view of the largest part of Tara Canyon! At this point, you will feel and understand why Tara Canyon (tears of Europe) is the largest in Europe and the most beautiful in the world! From Pejovine, you can see the entire massif of Durmitor and the highest peak in Montenegro - Bobotov Kuk at 2523 meters above sea level, Maglić - the highest peak in Bosnia and Herzegovina reaching 2386 meters above sea level, as well as the massif of Bioča. On the other side, you can see the grandiose canyon of Sušica and Little Montenegro, and the view extends all the way to Soko Grad where Tara and Piva rivers meet and form the Drina River. Soko Grad was the summer residence of the Serbian medieval ruler Duke Šćepan Kosača, who carried the title "Duke of Saint Sava," after whom the whole area was named Herzegovina. Beneath Sokolom, the monastery of Zagrađe, the endowment of Herzeg, still lives today.

They say that the best cream or "skorup" in the world is made in these places, smoked cheese, and much more that we will try during the trip.

The entire walk to the viewpoints and back to the vehicles takes approximately 2 hours, and the trail is very pleasant, easy, and suitable for almost everyone. Even children aged 5-6 have no problem mastering this route.

We return to the hamlet of Podgrad with the vehicles, then arrive at the stud farm and rural estate located on the very edge of the canyon. There, in an incredible ambiance, on a terrace overlooking the canyon that evokes awe, lunch awaits us with traditional specialties prepared on the spot.

The return to our 'Rafting Center Drina-Tara' in this option is planned around 19:00.

DAY THREE

Breakfast is served until 10 a.m.

After breakfast, the guests take the rafting equipment -safety vests, helmets, neoprene suits (long john), neoprene shoes, and anoraks. Transport with our jeeps to Brstanovica is the start of rafting.

Before the beginning, our skippers (river guides) will inform the guests about the techniques of rowing, sitting, and behaving in the boat, acting in different situations - a short course of rafting! In the first few hours, we pass through the most attractive part of the canyon and the Tara River. We stop at the waterfalls, and wild springs, stop for photoshoots, and swim. We make a break on the most beautiful spot in the Tara canyon - on Sipcanica waterfall.

After 25km of adrenaline and breathtaking nature, we arrive by boat at our Rafting Center Drina-Tara, under the restaurant terrace situated above the river. There we have hot showers and we are ready for lunch. It consists of local specialties all over again; for starters hot veal soup, lamb, kid, and veal with delicious vegetables under pastel, salads, homemade pies, hot barley bread, and many other specialties which we won’t tell you about until you get there.

Rafting on The Tara River

Lunch after rafting

The arrangement ends after lunch.

Upon agreement, this arrangement can be extended for an additional night with dinner and breakfast at an extra charge.

Price for weekdays (from Sunday to Friday):

Price for weekends (Friday and Saturday):

Prices are per person, in euros €.
Weekend prices also apply during the May 1st holidays.

Standard - bungalows with shared toilets and shower cabins.
Deluxe - bungalows with a bathroom inside the bungalow.

Check the current discounts and promotions for the 2025 season.

Organic Food - Menu for This Offer

Dinner day 1:

Brown trout and grayling, pura with cream cheese, cheese pie, spinach pie and meat pie made under metal pan.

Breakfast day 2:

Homemade dried ham,prosciutto, bacon,pork scratchings and dried susage. Hot doughnuts, hot muffins, homemade cheese, cream cheese made in wooden vats. Eggs and omelette with extras on demand. Tea, yoghurt. Sweet, honey, jam, chocolate cream.

Lunch day 2:

Snack during hiking will be in form of rich lunch packages with homemade food.

Dinner day 2:

Brown trout and grayling, pura with cream cheese, cheese pie, spinach pie and meat pie made under metal pan.

Breakfast day 3:

Homemade dried ham,prosciutto, bacon,pork scratchings and dried susage. Hot doughnuts, hot muffins, homemade cheese, cream cheese made in wooden vats. Eggs and omelette with extras on demand. Tea, yoghurt. Sweet, honey, jam, chocolate cream.

Lunch day 3:

Veal soup, barley bread made under metal pan, salad. Lamb, kid, or veal made under metal pan with potatoes and peppers, spiced with rosemary. Homemade pies made under the metal pan, For desert baklava, ruzice and tulumbe.

Remark for the menu:

Please order vegetarian food, or food which excludes certain ingrediants before or at the beginning of the arrangement.

NOTES

The minimum participants' number is 2, or you can join the already existing group.
The minimum participants' age is 8-12 (defined by water level).
Previous experience is not necessary.
Payment at the campsite is in cash.
Prices are in euros, per person. .
We pay special attention to maximum security and comfort.
Due to crowds on Saturdays' rafting, the start on that day can be at 8 a.m., 2.30 p.m.
We reserve the right to assess whether a person has a minimum of physical fitness for activities.