Tour in Kosovo

Reached Kosovo from Montenegro with my Fiat Tipo. Kosovo is a region with an Albanian majority where many people wear hats like half a white eggshell. To get here I travelled an impervious mountain road full of hairpin bends and sadly known for its danger caused by the presence of bandits. First stop at the Orthodox Monastery of Peć, which, although located in the Kosovo capital, is the Orthodox Serb primatial church. The Serb-Kosovo war had not yet broken out, but shortly afterwards Belgrade would use the very presence of this church as a pretext to claim this territory. Having left Peć, a short stop on a country road at the nearby Monastery of Visoki Dečani. Ethnic tension is palpable, and the continuous presence of checkpoints, soldiers and police remind me that this is a difficult area. A few months later war would break out in this zone.

After the quick visit I continued south to Đeneral Janković, where, having reached a first border with Macedonia situated in a wooded area, I was turned back by a soldier because it was temporarily closed. I therefore reached another border with Macedonia, which I managed to cross without problems. At the time of the trip Kosovo was an autonomous region of Serbia and therefore part of what remained of the Federation of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). Currently Kosovo, although formally under the sovereignty of Serbia, is in fact administered by the UN, has its own Parliament and is awaiting recognition of full independence.