Montenegro's limestone wilderness packs eighteen glacial lakes and Europe's deepest canyon — the Tara — into a park you can cross in a few days. Start gently around the Black Lake beneath the bulk of Međed, then work up through pine forest and karst to Bobotov Kuk, the 2,523-metre summit with a walkers' path all the way. Žabljak town makes a cheap, cheerful base. Go in June or September; July afternoons build thunderstorms with theatrical intent.
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