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Landscape alongside the White Trail and Bosnia and Herzegovina's highest mountain Maglić. Trail map White Trail starts in Razdrto, Slovenia at the foot of the Nanos plateau (in the background). The Via Dinarica is a network of long-distance hiking trails in the Dinaric Alps. It consists of the White Trail, Blue Trail and Green Trail.
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The Dinaric Alps (/ d ɪ ˈ n ær ɪ k /), [1] also Dinarides, are a mountain range in Southern and Southcentral Europe, separating the continental Balkan Peninsula from the Adriatic Sea. They stretch from Italy in the northwest through Slovenia , Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Serbia , Montenegro , and Kosovo to Albania in the southeast.
Dinara is a 100-kilometre-long (60-mile) mountain range in the Dinaric Alps, located on the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. It has four major mountains or peaks, from north-west to south-east: [1] Ilica or Ujilica (1,654 m) Sinjal or Dinara (1,831 m), eponym to the range, highest mountain in Croatia; Troglav (1,913 m), highest ...
Orjen is a more important hiking destination. Three mountain huts provide basic accommodation. Orjen comprises transboundary area of about 400 km 2 between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro , and runs for 25 km from region around Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the north-west, to Bay of Kotor in Montenegro in the south-east.
[7] [10] The mountain peak is accessible through the park and is visited by mountaineers and nature lovers. Most of the routes to the peak require two days of hiking. Mountaineering access to the summit of the Maglić massif is only from the southern side, which has rich vegetation of grass and mountain pine.
The highest mountains in Croatia belong to the Dinarides range that is sometimes also called Dinaric Alps, of which Dinara is the highest mountain in Croatia. Together with the easternmost parts of the Alps , these mountains span most of the country, and their orogenic activity started in the Paleozoic with the Variscan orogeny and continued in ...
The mountains are characterized by limestone and dolomite rocks and shows major karst features. [3] Maja Jezercë sprawls to the west of the valley and is the highest mountain of the Dinaric Alps, with an altitude of 2,694 m (8,839