Meet Vera, one of our super Montenegro guides who is most at home in the mountains – a woman after our own hearts. She hails from Žabljak, a tiny town in Durmitor National Park which also has ski slopes. Vera has been a licensed tour guide since 2017 and is a member of the Montenegrin Association of Ski Instructors (MASI). Read on to get to know Vera and her home country a little more. What was it like growing up in Žabljak? Despite the fact that it is very small, my hometown is a really beautiful and special place. I have many unforgettable memories from my childhood days there. Us kids from rural areas definitely are a little behind people born and raised in big modern cities and countries. We didn’t have the internet, computers or mobile phones when they already had it, we didn’t have big book stores, shopping malls or restaurants with world foods. But then we were lucky to be able to play outside without supervision because our town was safe and quiet. We walked to school every day without running to catch public transport because everything was close by and we would scream and jump in the mornings when we woke up to one metre or more of fresh snow, which meant playing outside all day. We could ask for help from the first person we saw on the street because we all knew each other and we spent summers in the village surrounded by animals, mountain flowers and the smell of fresh grass. Vera grew up in the rural village of Zabljak in North Montenegro. What inspired you to become a tour guide? When I moved to the capital city of Podgorica for university, I missed my hometown a lot. I started to hike, run, ski, cycle, or
Meet Vera, one of our super Montenegro guides who is most at home in the mountains – a woman after our own hearts. She hails from Žabljak, a tiny town in Durmitor National Park which also has ski slopes. Vera has been a licensed tour guide since 2017 and is a member of the Montenegrin Association of
