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The video makes me want to go and explore it!

Honestly I've had a period earlier in life where I had some opportunities for traveling and didn't take it because I'm cheap and traveling alone blows, but touring other countries and continents is still on my bucket list. And countries like Albania are easily overlooked due to low media exposure, stereotyping, and former-soviet-union things.

But Albania, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary should be really nice places to visit. I don't know about Serbia or Bosnia/Herzegovina, I only know anything about that from media coverage during the 90's.

Serbia has nice things to see (Tara mountain, Belgrade, etc.), but if you make a Balkan tour you should not skip Montenegro. They have everything - nice seacoast with a number of old cities, mountains, lakes... And it's all condensed in small country, meaning daily trips will give you a lot of variety.

Just don't go there July-August since it's packed full of tourists and traffic jams are everywhere. May, June or September are the best.

Bikepacking the Balkans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIZ-OglUGTs

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