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Snowshoeing from Javorje mountain hut to Vareš
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Descending from Površje PeakPhoto: Sabina Sirćo, Via Dinarica
A great snowshoeing tour through dense coniferous forest and across large meadows. It goes across the Površje peak, where you can enjoy in wonderful view over surroundings mountains, and then it descends through the small cottage settlments of Poljice and Semizova Ponikva to the city of Vareš.
This tour is a part of a Via Dinarica Green Trail.
From the mountain hut the trail goes uphill through the forest in direction of the Medieval Royal City of Bobovac. After exiting forest you will enjoy in snowshoeing through a big meadows and very soon you will have the first view of,on the one side, mountain Zvijezda and, on the other, of mountain Vranica. From Površje peak there is breathtaking view over the surroudings mountains - Vlašić, Vranica, Čvrsnica, Prenj, Bjelašnica, Jahorina, Romanija and Zvijezda. Also, beneath the peak you will be able to see the Medieval Royal City of Bobovac.
From Površje peak you are descending and you can see cottage settlment of Poljice. After passing Poljice the trail is descending through the dense forest and quite steep hill. Soon you will reach to the wide forest road that will lead you to the settlment of Semizova Ponikva.
Finally the road is passing through abandoned quarry and soon afterwards a magnificient panorma view of Vareš will open in front of you. You will see Vareš tucked in the valley between the mounains of Zvijezda and Perun.
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The path descending from Poljice through the forest is quite steep and there are fallen trees, so be careful!Start
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From Sarajevo to Vareš by bus line Sarajevo-Ilijaš-Breza-VarešBy road
Hike from Vareš to Javorje Mountain Hut
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