Cross Triathlon endurance sports Training Camp Bosnia Herzegovina 2020

DAY TO DAY PROGRAM

We offer a daily opportunity to participate in a swim of run-training before breakfast and/of at the end of the afternoon. Also there is a daily central briefing. De workouts are given by Diederik Scheltinga en Evert Scheltinga.
Rob Barel en Johan Neevel have explored the site and have contributed to the content of the workouts.

DAY 1 (D)
International flight from Cologne – Bonn tot Sarajevo. Bus transfer from Sarajevo Airport to Herzegovina Lodges along Lake Boracko or Jezero (approximately 1 hour)
Unpacking things and getting installed in the modern rooms and apartments along Lake Boracko
Depending on the time of arrival, you will have the opportunity to get familiar with the immediate surroundings.

DAY 2 (B-D)
Today’s mountain bike tour offers a mixture of sports, nature and culture. Leaving Herzegovina Lodges various groups of participants (combined according to their mountain bike experience levels) start the tour towards Mostar. You will mountain bike over unpaved gravel roads, sometimes aligned with big boulders and impressive rocks, but yet at the same time offering magnificent views on Mostar. Of course, this city shows us its ‘bridge’, but also offers us the opportunity to become familiar with its many narrow streets.

Today’s tour information:
Distance: 100 km
Difference in altitude: 800 m mountain biking; general for the complete trip today: 2000 m

DAY 3 (B-L-D)
Mountain bike tour to Cicevo Rula, taking us over mainly unpaved roads through green forests and along high mountain ridges. On the way we will make stops at several interesting locations like hanging bridges along Neretva River and grave tombs of Cathars. We will enjoy dinner in typical local eating houses in the mountains.

Today’s tour information:
Distance: 40 km
Difference in altitude: 800 m mountain biking; general for the complete trip today: 1500 m

The afternoon’s program offers free leisure:
a. Choose out of the available options
b. Organise your own mountain bike practive tour
c. Optional clinic by Rob Bare land Johan Neevel

DAY 4 (B-D)
Today our mountain bike tour takes us to a magnificent mountain top at an altitude 2000 m. During the last 100 m the slopes of the mountain will bring back your speed to about 5 to 6 km per hour. This mountain will turn out to be a challenging and patient ‘opponent’, whilst offering you off-road bike sensations in gorgeous natural surroundings!

Today’s tour information:
Distance: 75 km
Difference in altitude: 900 m mountain biking; general for the complete trip today: 2200 m

DAY 5 (B-D)
A magnificent mountain bike tour today around Lake Boracko. In addition also a technical single track is offered for those who are interested.

Today’s tour information:
Distance: 25 km
Difference in altitude: 800 m mountain biking; general for the complete trip today: 1000 m
Mainly unpaved roads and only 25% we mountain bike over paved roads.

The afternoon program offers a variety of options for free leisure time.

DAY 6 (B-L-D)
Today’s sports program:
1500 m swimming
30-35 km mountain biking
10 km running cross

DAY 7 (B-D)
Today’s mountain bike tour will bring you to an enchanting village, where time seems to have come to a standstill during the last centuries. Located at an altitude of 1500 m, the roads leading to this village offer stunning views, that we may enjoy during our mountain biking.
Our first challenge is climbing up the mountain nearby Konjic and this mainly over paved roads. In Konjic you are directly ‘invited’ to go on to Lukomir along beautiful natural surroundings.
Another option is a bus transfer to a beautiful country site location among mountaintops, from where you can mountain bike off-road and cover a distance of 70 km. This tour takes you along the former olympic’s ski run to Lukomir, before descending to Konjic and climb up the mountain again to Lake Boracko.
Back in Herzegovina Lodges dinner will come along with entertaining live music, like the Bosnian sevdah music, more or less comparable to the Portugese fado. Besides this type of music, also modern and popular songs will be performed.

DAY 8 (B)
A bus transfer will take us to Sarajevo International Airport, from where we fly back to Cologne – Bonn.

Program Options
Option 1 A 4 hour visit to Sarajevo
Prices: € 37,50 per person
Price includes: train ticket, entrance ticket Sarajevski Ratni Tunnel, tourist guide and local transfer in Sarajevo, bus transfer from Sarajevo to Konjic and, finally, on the mountain bike back to Lake Boracko.
Price excludes: lunch in Sarajevo

Following breakfast we leave for Sarajevo, the city so famous for its religious diversity. Representatives of Islam, Jews, Catholics and members of the Orthodox Church live already for centuries next to each other! On the other hand Sarajevo has again turned into a dazzling city with cafes, music, art and many cultural events and festivities. Since the war ended in 1995 the city has rebuild itself and, again, its people enjoy the city and all it has to offer.

A visit to Sarajevski Ratni Tunnel.
This tunnel has been build during the war when Sarajevo got besieged. It runs below the city’s airport and played an important role in the survival of the town.

Option 2 Rafting
Prices: € 45,00 per person

Certainly, when the water levels allow, Bosnia and Herzegovina are Europe’s best locations for rafting, maybe even in the entire world! That’s why the Vrbas River in 2009 was the ideal site fort he World Championships Rafting.
FIT Adventure Sports Travels offers rafting programs for ‘starters’ as well as the more experienced sportsmen in this field. A bus transfer will take us to the starting point fort he rafting event: either the Tara River, or the Neretva River. The first river garantees challenging rafting through almost untouched wilderness and unforgettable scenery, not to be enjoyed anywhere else in Europe. The second river, Neretva, offers an exciting rafting experience in wild and still intact nature and will take you through deep canyons and steep mountain slopes with unique endemic flora and fauna.

Option 3 Visit to Dubrovnik
Prices: when sufficient interest is shown, tailor-made arrangements will become available.

Optie 4 A 4 hour City walk and visit to Titoo Bunker in Konjic
Prices: € 22,50 per person
Price includes: entrance ticket, mountain biking to Konjic and return to Boracko Lake as well as mountain biking from the center of Konjic to the Titoo Bunker and back.

This mountain bike tour entails a visit to the city of Konjic and includes – via an optional bus transfer – a visit tot he Titoo Bunker. An English speaking tourist guide will provide us with historical background information on this secretly built project, that in 1953 became the underground headquarters for the President Tito. It resulted in one of the biggest infrastructural project of the former Yugoslavian army.
A 2 hour city-walk through Konjic will take us past ancient cemeteries, a mosk, an orthodox and a catholic church. The walk also allows to visit the local market to buy tabacco, smoked meat, special types of cheeses and other local food products. In the meantime we visit one of the many bakery shops (slasticarna) to enjoy a rich assortment of sweets. Konjic being Europe’s center of wood carving industry.

Today’s tour information:
Distance: 36 km
Difference in altitude: 800 m
Present altotude: 1600 m

Option 5: Kayakking
Prices: € 35,00 per person

Depending on the actual water levels, we start this morning with a bus transfer to the Tara River. It is located in the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina and forms the natural border there with Montenegro. The 1300 m deep ‘Grand Canyon’ of the Tara River is a protected natural reserve and has a long tradition wit hall kinds of water sports, mainly rafting and kayakking. Local people like to come here for family gatherings, picknicks, barbecues and outdoor activities.

Option 6: Hiking
Prices: € 7,50 per person
Prices include the support of an tourist guide

We can enjoy a splendid 10 km hiking tour around Boracko Lake and combine this with a visit to Konjic. It allows us to discover the ‘real’ Bosnia: its continental climate, extended forests and vast meadows, being the shepherd’s paradise. Walking through the untouched natural surroundings of Bosnia is a fantastic way to get familiar with this country!
There might be an opportunity to have coffee with local people here, who still live their authentic life high up in the mountains.
Instead of an organised lunch we bring along our own lunches, prepared early in the morning . Later in the afternoon we return to Konjic, followed by a slendid dinner party along Boracko Lake.

During this entire Training Camp we dailey offer:
• Swim Training before breakfast and/or late afternoon
• Jogging Training before breakfast and/or late afternoon
• Central briefings
• Flexible training programs
• Clinics by Rob Bare land Johan Neevel

Prices:
€ 1.125,= per person; depending on the actual rate of inflation and indexing

Prices include:
All meals mentioned in the DAY TO DAY PROGRAM
B= Breakfast
L = Lunch
D = Dinner
Clinics
All lodgings: Guest house
All transfers
International transfer of your own mountain bike

• You bring your mountain bike before June 15, 2016 to a central location in the Netherlands, yet to be determined
• This also includes spare parts, needed to keep your mountain bike in good condition and/or repair it along the various routes of this event

English speaking tourist guides and mountain bike support staff, including tools to repair and maintain the mountain bikes
Medical kit and supplies

Prices don’t include:
Transfer to and from Cologne – Bonn
All personal expenses
Travel and Health Insurances
Travel Cancellation Insurance
Optional excursions
International transfer mountain bikes: € 200,00. Either open for personal private booking, or through our tourist agency. An additional insurance for transfer and use in Bosnia is very much recommended.

Group size
The event will be organised with a minimum number of 60 participants.
You can register for this trip as a group as well as individually.

Pre-travel participants meeting
Following reservation or booking for the trip FIT Adventure Sports Travels invites you to attend a pre-travel participants meeting. Here you will receive detailed information on background, program and various aspects about this trip. Also you will have ample opportunity to ask questions and gather additional documentation.

N.B. Optional programs our available to extend your stay either before or after the trip offered here. Please contact our tourist agency.