MOUNTAINS
Golija Mountain is the highest mountain in southwestern Serbia, one of the most beautiful and heavily forested mountains in our country. Its highest peak (Jankov kamen – 1833 meters) gives adorable view of the Pešter plateau. It gives fantastic, still unexplored possibilities for tourism and recreation. Its slopes, abundant in snow in winter, are ideal for ski sports, while in summer they turn into the lovely pastures and sunny slopes. Golija is the first and the only Biosphere reserve in our country. The Government of the Republic of Serbia passed a regulation in 2001 which put the area of Golija Mountain under protection of UNESCO pronouncing it as the Nature Park and placing it in the first category of protection as a natural property of exceptional importance. There is the tourist centre Odvraćenica on Golija, with a hotel and ski-path at the altitude of 1744 meters. The construction of some building aimed for winter tourism is under construction. Once the proceeding construction is finished, Golija will have 5 ski lifts and 8 ski paths.
To the Odvraćenica resort on Golija Mountain, under the highest peak of the mountain – Jankov kamen, you can come from the city of Novi Pazar by asphalted road of 32 kilometers or by slightly shorter macadam road from Sjenica. Tourist centre “Odvraćenica” has a hotel with 100 beds in rooms and apartments. For those who prefer to walk, there is a Path of Health, as well as a clearly marked macadam road 8, 6 kilometers long which extends from the hotel to Jankov kamen, being the highest peak of Golija.
Jadovnik Mountain is situated 15 km west from Sjenica, the highest peak is Katunić (1734 meters). It is said that it was named after what it could arrange to its visitors, especially in winter (“Jad” in Serbian means “pain”). The magnificent waterfalls of the Sopotnica River are the biggest summer attraction, while Jadovnik is chill in winter and attractive primarily for hikers visiting it more often recently. It is composed of meadows and sunny slopes, while the wider landscapes of the forest fall down to the valleys of Uvac and Mileševska. Because it is mountain with unique landscape, Jadovnik is most visited mountain by mountaineers from mountaineering club “Zmajevac”.
Giljeva is a mountainous area which in south separates the Pešter plateau and high Montenegrin Mountains. It is 20 kilometers far from Sjenica, it can be reached via Budjeva and Karajukića bunari roads. This unusual mountain is the Heaven for cattlemen of Pešter, filled with country-houses, cotes, flocks of sheep and shepherds from numerous villages of Pešter. Its specific karstic landscape is more reminiscent of some other planet than of some other mountain. Giljeva represents the secret and mysterious, still insufficiently explored area even by the residents of the Pešter plateau.
