Behind me right now is the face of
the Karanfili Mountains of southeast Montenegro.
Today we're gonna do this very interesting hike
that starts here in Montenegro, goes by these
mountains, but goes into a different freaking country, Albania.
It's 08:00 A.m.
And I just woke up 30 minutes ago
and we're in this southeastern town of Montenegro
called Plav and we're about to do this
hike up into the mountains that separate Montenegro and Albania.
So we just got dropped off by our taxi at
the very start of the trail and our app for
navigating through this trail is kind of glitching out already.
So we're going to try to do this, but if we
get lost, we'll just come back the way we came from.
Hopefully that shouldn't be too complicated.
There's no network, so we can't really
call our taxi driver when we're done.
So we told him to come at like
06:00 p.m., which is 9 hours from now.
So hopefully that should give us more than enough time to
do a six hour hike and flim in the middle.
But let's see, we'll find out with time. Ah sun!
This is nice. Found a dog, but
this trail is really confusing.
Managed to get lost in the
first few minutes
Entering the jungle.
I would be very lost by now
if this dog wasn't leading me.
Hello, doggy.
Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy?
You is
Let's go.
Me and my new hiking partner.
I was definitely going the wrong way for a
couple of hundred meters and got like a warning
signal notification from the app, which is working now.
I had to turn around, head back a couple
of hundred meters, go the right way. 200 meters
up, 800 meters in elevation left to go.
After 1 hour of hiking through the forest, finally in some
sunny clearings and I think from this point on, I won't
be in the forest too much and I'll be going up
those gorgeous hills right in front of me.
It's getting hotter and sunnier, but the hike
is definitely starting to get bit more scenic.
Okay, so at 1900 meters I've reached this point, which
I think is the first official viewpoint of the day.
You can see the mountains up ahead of me.
Those look like huge walls.
That has to be like 2300 meters
up or something. And on the way here,
the last part of the trail was pretty scenic too.
You see these fields on the sides of the
mountain and these grass fields covered with red flowers.
This is unreal.
It's starting to get really, really windy right now.
So this is it.
I am at the top of Taljanka Mountain, the peak.
I'm basically in Albania right now.
I see a flag over there. Think I'm gonna go check that out.
Well, if I wasn't in Albania
before, I definitely am right now.
And I think I see some
Albanian villages down over there.
I think you can actually come
up here from that side too.
And I don't see a border
checkpost up in the mountains.
So I'm guessing they handle that stuff down there.
And the flag of Albinia is so interesting.
It looks like something out of Game of Thrones.
It's a crazy story.
I went all the way up there to the Albanian
flag, and then I was thinking about following the route
that goes through Albania for a little bit and does
a loop and comes back into Montenegro.
But it looked like there was a very steep drop off
over there and no one else was going that way.
And I just didn't trust myself to do that with
my cameras and drones and GoPros and all that stuff,
because having a good center of balance is very important
when you're going down very steep places.
So I was talking to these two cool backpacker dudes
that I met over there and decided that's too dangerous.
So I'm just going back the way that I came.
But I saw another viewpoint.
I want to go there and get some
sick drone shots with some better lighting.
So I was chilling by the flag.
And something super interesting happened.
This German elderly couple went up to
the flag, and they basically hiked up
from the village on the Albanian side.
So there's definitely no border control because they
went up here and went to the Montenegro
side, and there's no border control there.
So I'm not even sure how
border control works in this region.
Interesting.
So it's day number two, and I'm back in the town
of Plav, and I actually want to go take a look
at the lake that this town is named after.
But first I want to get
some coffee from somewhere over here.
So I got myself a latte.
This looks cold but feels warm
So that was Plav
Lake, and I think that is it for this video.
This lake honestly reminds me a
lot of Pokhara in Nepal,
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I'll catch you guys in the next video, most
probably from Albania, because I'm going to edit this
video and the last one, and then I'm going
to try to go into Albania.