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Belgrad - Kubin

Unfortunately, I could not exchange my remaining forints in Serbia and had to withdraw money. Only Euros, US dollars and sometimes Swiss francs are accepted at the exchange offices.

I started in the morning over the fort and visited the city until noon. Outside Belgrade the air was very bad due to oil refineries and at some point the road stopped and ended at a highway exit. In order not to end up as a ghost driver and to get out of the industrial area I then had to take the highway access on the other side and make my first highway kilometer until the next exit.

The road that followed was an uneven gravel road, which lead through a beautiful nature park. So I drove carefully and a little slower, because I was exhausted from the day before anyway. Today I met the first other bicycle tourists since Budapest. During the day it was very hot and dry and there were only few possibilities to fill up my water supplies. Towards evening I could observe, how the shepherds rounded up their cattle. I stayed overnight for the first time without tarp after I was of course well bitten by mosquitos again.

Today I had to clean my bike bottle more exactly, because I noticed that it starts to mold from the inside. As I get further and further east the sunset appears constantly 5-10 minutes earlier night.

Ciocănești - Viziru

I might have overdone it with breakfast and lunch today—0.5kg of muesli, 0.5 liters of milk, and two bananas left me feeling quite bloated. After that, I could barely bend over due to my swollen stomach!

The landscape became increasingly picturesque after passing Călărași, with more horses appearing along the roadside, adding to the charm of the journey. In the evening, I got lucky when a rain front could not reach me. To top it off, I met some very hospitable Romanians who kindly invited me into their home. Although they only spoke Romanian, we managed to communicate using the iTranslate app.

Langer aber gut zu fahrender Anstieg zum Passo San Jorio (Teer, Schotter).
Danach wird der Trail schmaler und bietet entlang dem Grenzgebiet von Schweiz und Italien schöne Aussichten in die umgebende Landschaft.

The trek from Gorak Shep back to Dingboche was a welcome descent after our challenging days at high altitude.