Serbia, one river bend at a time.
Which Iron Gates boat actually pulls in under Golubac. Where the rakija is distilled instead of bought. Whether the Šargan Eight is worth the early start. Tours across Serbia, reviewed.
The tours travellers in Serbia book first.
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Novi Sad & Sremski Karlovci Full-Day Tour
Explore Novi Sad, Sremski Karlovci, Krušedol Monastery, Petrovaradin Fortress, and Bermet wine on an 8-hour Serbia day trip.
From · $76
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Gems of Eastern Serbia Tour
from $123
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Northern Serbia: Sremski Karlovci and Novi Sad Full-Day Tour from Belgrade
from $78
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Day Trip from Belgrade: Gems of Eastern Serbia
from $127
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Sunset Cruise with Live Guide
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Underground Tour with Riverside Sparkling Wine
from $22
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Western Serbia 1-Day Tour of the Key Sites from Belgrade
from $129
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Day Tour to Nis, Serbia with tickets and pick-up
from $93
The corners of Serbia a trip gets built around.
Belgrade on its two rivers, the Danube where it narrows to a gorge, the baroque lanes of Sremski Karlovci, the wooden villages of the west, the long tables of the south. Pick the ones your days can carry.
Belgrade opens from the water, the street and the tunnel.
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A fortress on the point where the Sava runs into the Danube, Roman and Ottoman layers underneath it, and the sunset boats that leave from below. These three carry the most travellers; the full list splits the rest by how you like to move.
Kalemegdan, Knez Mihailova, Skadarlija
Start at the confluence terrace, walk the pedestrian spine down to Terazije, finish under the lanterns of the old cobbled restaurant street.
The tunnels beneath the fortress
Roman wells, an Austro-Hungarian gunpowder magazine and a Cold War bunker, then a glass of something Serbian by the water afterwards.
Sunset where the two rivers meet
The only view that shows you how the city sits: fortress on the bluff, Zemun to the left, the floating clubs waking up on the far bank.
The Danube gets narrow, and Serbia gets dramatic.
Two hours east of Belgrade the river squeezes between cliffs into the Iron Gates, past the walls of Golubac and the rock face carved with the head of Decebalus. It is the longest, best day trip in the country.
Novi Sad keeps the Habsburg half of Serbia.
An hour north, the plain flattens out and the architecture changes: yellow baroque, a star fortress with a clock whose hands run backwards, and the Fruška Gora ridge behind it, stacked with monasteries and cellars of bermet wine.
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Past Užice the roads start climbing.
Western Serbia is the country at its most photographed: a lone house on a rock in the middle of the Drina, the Tara canyon dropping away at Banjska Stena, Kusturica’s timber village on the ridge, and a narrow-gauge train that loops back over itself to get down the hill.
- 1Western Serbia 1-Day Tour of the Key Sites from Belgradefrom $129
- 2West of Belgrade: Woodentown, Šargan 8 train & Drina Riverfrom $129
- 3Belgrade to Zlatibor private transfer by carfrom $276
What a day out in Serbia costs.
Every tour on the site, by price. A walking tour costs less than lunch; a private car for a whole valley costs what it sounds like.
Walking tours, fortress tunnels, rakija and wine tastings, the city by bike or scooter.
The standard day out: Novi Sad and Karlovci, the eastern caves and monasteries, food tours with the tastings included.
The long ones. Iron Gates with a speedboat, the full western loop, private drivers for a whole day.
What Serbia keeps to itself.
River gorges and hilltop monasteries run the length of the Balkans. A railway that writes a figure eight into a mountainside, a plum brandy measured out by the household, and the concrete decades of Yugoslavia belong to Serbia.
The Šargan Eight
To drop 300 metres off the Šargan pass, the old Belgrade to Sarajevo line writes a figure eight into the hillside: 13.5 kilometres of track, 22 tunnels, and the same valley three times from three heights. It closed in 1974 and was relaid as a heritage railway. Trains run spring to autumn and the round trip takes about two and a half hours.
- 1Šargan Eight Railway, Wooden Town & House on Drina river day trip from Belgrade★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 107 reviews
- 2From Sarajevo: Višegrad, Andrićgrad, Šargan Train, Drvengrad★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 95 reviews
- 3West of Belgrade: Woodentown, Šargan 8 train & Drina River★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 42 reviews
Rakija, at the source
Rakija is distilled at home in Serbia long before it reaches a bar, and the plum version, šljivovica, is the one a household measures its year by. A tasting works through quince, apricot and the herb-steeped travarica, poured into small ribbed glasses and never hurried.
- 1Golubac Fortress w/Iron Gate Speed Boat & Rakija Distillery tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 47 reviews
- 2Belgrade Traditional Serbian Brandy Tasting★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 14 reviews
- 3Belgrade center walking tour with Rakija, Cocktails and Burgers★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 4 reviews
Yugoslav Belgrade
New Belgrade was drained and built across the Sava from the late 1940s, and its blocks, its boulevards and the old tram routes still set the shape of the city. These tours cover the Yugoslav period, the architecture it left behind, and the house on Dedinje where Tito is buried.
- 1Red Belgrade Communist Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 301 reviews
- 2Yugoslavia Communist tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 66 reviews
- 3Communist Tour in Belgrade★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 19 reviews
Belgrade does not really get going until eleven.
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Belgrade Nightlife Bar Pub Club Crawl with Drinks
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When the košava blows, Belgrade goes indoors.
The košava comes up the Danube from the southeast in autumn and winter, and it is a wind you plan a day around. Every good answer is under a roof: the tunnels and gunpowder magazine inside the fortress, an oak cellar in Sremski Karlovci, a distillery bench, a lunch that runs to four courses.
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Belgrade265 tours- Novi Sad & Sremski Karlovci26 tours
The Iron Gates & Golubac21 tours
Zlatibor & the west15 tours
The Drina & Tara22 tours
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