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Getting There & Away
The bus station is on the highway, near the town centre. Services head in both directions
on the Podgorica-Belgrade highway.
There's a large train station further along the highway, 2.5km north of town, with ser-
vices to Bar (€7.20, 3¼ hours, three daily), Podgorica (€7, two hours, six daily), Kolašin
(€2.20, 30 minutes, four daily), Mojkovac (€1.20, 15 minutes, five daily) and Belgrade
(€17, eight hours, six daily).
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Rožaje Рожаје
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Rožaje is Montenegro's most easterly town, nestled within the mountainous folds border-
ing Serbia and Kosovo. Ninety-six percent of its population are Muslim and the song of
muezzins can be heard echoing from its minarets at prayer times. It's fascinating to sit by
the main square and watch the evening promenade. While this social ritual is common to
every town in Montenegro, here you'll spot plenty of men strolling together arm in arm
and some (but by no means most) women wearing hijabs (head coverings).
With a backdrop of rocky cliffs and plenty of old wooden houses achieving a look bor-
dering on designer decrepitude, Rožaje could be very pretty indeed. The main thing pre-
venting that happening is the scandalous state of the Ibar River, which seems to be used
as the main waste disposal. Plastic bags full of household refuse line its banks as it
gurgles through town.
During the late 1990s the town's mosques provided shelter for refugees from neigh-
bouring Kosovo.
Sights
Ganića Kula
(Trg IX Crnogorske Brigade bb)
Residential towers of this sort were once common throughout
eastern Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania. Not just a defence against invaders, a
kula
was
particularly useful for protecting the menfolk during interfamily blood feuds. There are
gun slits on the bottom floor and only small barred windows on the next two. The
TOWER
