{"id":8665,"date":"2026-09-17T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2026-09-17T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:00:00","slug":"balkans-in-august-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkans-in-august-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Balkans in August: Honestly, Should You?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><style>\n\/* \u2500\u2500 Hide Astra default post title + meta for this post \u2500\u2500 *\/\n.single-post .entry-title,\n.single-post .entry-meta,\n.single-post .ast-post-format-meta,\n.single-post .post-meta { display:none !important; }\n.single-post .entry-content { padding-top:0 !important; margin-top:0 !important; }\n.single-post .ast-article-single { padding-top:0 !important; }\n.ast-separate-container .ast-article-post,\n.ast-separate-container .ast-article-single { padding:0 !important; box-shadow:none !important; 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quietly does brilliantly<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkans-in-august-heat\/#Surviving_it_in_practice_car_clothes_and_driving\" >Surviving it in practice: car, clothes and driving<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkans-in-august-heat\/#Should_you_do_the_Balkans_in_August_then\" >Should you do the Balkans in August, then?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkans-in-august-heat\/#Frequently_asked_questions\" >Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkans-in-august-heat\/#Our_final_word_from_Rovaniemi\" >Our final word from Rovaniemi<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkans-in-august-heat\/#Joona_Alla\" >Joona &amp; Alla<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkans-in-august-heat\/#AI-assisted_content_for_travel_brands\" >AI-assisted content for travel brands<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkans-in-august-heat\/#More_from_our_Balkan_summer\" >More from our Balkan summer<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkans-in-august-heat\/#Our_Balkan_Road_Trip_Itinerary_Croatia_Bosnia_Montenegro_Albania_in_One_Route\" >Our Balkan Road Trip Itinerary: Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro &amp; Albania in One Route<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-15\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkans-in-august-heat\/#Split_Croatia_in_Summer_An_Honest_Half-Day_Heatwave_Guide\" >Split, Croatia in Summer: An Honest Half-Day Heatwave Guide<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-16\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkans-in-august-heat\/#The_Albanian_Alps_Without_Hiking_Viewpoints_You_Can_Drive_To\" >The Albanian Alps Without Hiking: Viewpoints You Can Drive To<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Balkans_in_August_honestly_should_you\"><\/span>Balkans in August: <em>honestly, should you?<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"htf-hero-deck\">We drove Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Albania through +35&#176;C heat &#8212; with a few days nudging +42&#176;C &#8212; as two people who live in Lapland. Here is what August actually did to our plans, the daily rhythm that saved the trip, and how we would decide if we were you.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"htf-hero-meta\">\n<div class=\"htf-meta-author\">\n<div class=\"htf-avatar\">J&amp;A<\/div>\n<div><strong>Joona &amp; Alla<\/strong><span class=\"htf-dot\">Rovaniemi, Finland<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<span>\u00b7 September 2026 \u00b7 9 min read<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n<!-- HERO IMAGE PLACEHOLDER -->\n<div class=\"htf-photo-ph\" data-slot=\"1\" data-slug=\"balkans-in-august-heat\" data-keywords=\"balkans august heat, adriatic coast summer evening, petrovac montenegro beach, road trip sun\" style=\"background:#F8F7F4;border:1px dashed #C8A45A;border-radius:6px;padding:40px 20px;text-align:center;margin:36px auto;max-width:1100px;font-family:'Inter',sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#A8A49C;letter-spacing:.5px;\">[ Photo placeholder \u2014 Evening light on the Adriatic coast after a +38&#176;C August day, 2100&#215;900 ]<\/div>\n\n<!-- ARTICLE + SIDEBAR -->\n<div class=\"htf-wrap\">\n<article class=\"htf-body\">\n\n<p>We live in Rovaniemi, where a +25&#176;C afternoon makes the local news and half the town heads for the lake. So the Balkans in August were always going to be an experiment: this summer we drove from Split through Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina and Montenegro down to Albania and back, in heat that sat around +35&#176;C most days and touched +42&#176;C on the worst ones. If anyone was going to wilt, it was us.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t wilt &#8212; but only because we stopped fighting the heat and started scheduling around it. This is the honest version: what we cancelled, what August quietly did better than any other month could, and who should absolutely pick a different month.<\/p>\n\n<!-- TL;DR -->\n<div class=\"htf-tldr\">\n<div class=\"htf-tldr-label\">Short Answer<\/div>\n<p>Yes, you can do the Balkans in August &#8212; we did the whole four-country road trip in +35&#176;C to +42&#176;C and still loved it &#8212; but only if you build your days around mornings, evenings and water, and hand the hours between 12:00 and 15:00 over to shade and air-conditioning. If your dream trip is proper hiking or long days of city sightseeing, choose June or September instead; August is for the coast, the lakes and the long warm evenings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<!-- TOC -->\n<div class=\"htf-toc\">\n<div class=\"htf-toc-label\">In this review<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#s1\">What August heat in the Balkans actually feels like<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s2\">The siesta pattern that saved our trip<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s3\">What we cancelled because of the heat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s4\">What August quietly does brilliantly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s5\">Surviving it in practice: car, clothes and driving<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s6\">Should you do the Balkans in August, then?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"s1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_August_heat_in_the_Balkans_actually_feels_like\"><\/span>What August heat in the Balkans actually feels like<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Numbers first, because &#8220;it&#8217;s hot&#8221; means nothing until you&#8217;ve stood in it. On our trip, +35&#176;C was an ordinary day &#8212; not a heatwave headline, just Tuesday. A few days climbed towards +42&#176;C, and those are the ones you remember: the air feels like opening an oven door, car door handles bite your fingers, and the walk from a shaded caf&#233; to your car becomes something you plan.<\/p>\n<p>What surprised us most was how little the heat cared about our intentions. In <a href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/split-croatia-heatwave-guide\/\">Split<\/a> we set out to explore Diocletian&#8217;s city properly and lasted two to three hours before surrendering and going to the sea. That wasn&#8217;t laziness &#8212; the old town&#8217;s pale stone radiates heat back at you, and by late morning the lanes without shade were simply not places to linger. The architecture is stunning and the history fascinating; we just consumed them in espresso-sized portions rather than a long lunch of a day.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair to the region: locals were visibly fine. The rhythm of coastal towns already bends around the sun &#8212; quiet, shuttered early afternoons, then streets that come alive at 19:00 and stay warm and busy until midnight. The heat is only a problem if you insist on a northern European timetable, which, being northern Europeans, we did for about two days.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"s2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_siesta_pattern_that_saved_our_trip\"><\/span>The siesta pattern that saved our trip<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>By day three we had a rule that we kept for the rest of the trip: <strong>nothing happens outdoors between 12:00 and 15:00.<\/strong> Not sightseeing, not beach time, not &#8220;just a quick look&#8221; at a viewpoint. Those hours went to long lunches in the shade, air-conditioned supermarket wanders, driving with the AC on, or simply doing nothing at the hotel &#8212; which, on a two-week road trip, your body is grateful for anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The day splits into two short, good days instead of one long, miserable one. Mornings until about 11:00 were for towns, viewpoints and anything involving walking. Evenings from 17:00 onwards were for beaches, promenades and dinners that started later than we would ever eat in Finland. Timing things this way also does quiet crowd control for you: we reached <a href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/kravica-waterfalls-bosnia\/\">Kravica Waterfalls in Bosnia<\/a> at about 17:00, just as the tour-bus crowds were draining away, and swam in the cold spring water with the place emptying out around us. The same trick works almost everywhere in August.<\/p>\n<p>If you take one thing from this post, take the pattern: early start, midday surrender, long evening. It costs you nothing you&#8217;ll miss and buys back the whole trip.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"s3\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_we_cancelled_because_of_the_heat\"><\/span>What we cancelled because of the heat<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Honesty section. The biggest casualty was a proper hike in the Albanian Alps. We had loosely planned to walk one of the marked routes from the Raz&#235;m side; in that heat, with long exposed stretches and two Lapland-calibrated bodies, it would have been unpleasant at best and genuinely risky at worst. We skipped it &#8212; and instead spent two days on <a href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/albanian-alps-without-hiking\/\">viewpoints you can drive to<\/a>, which turned out to be one of the highlights of the whole Albanian leg. Less sweat, same mountains, and cold drinks within reach.<\/p>\n<p>City time was the other casualty. Our Split hours were compressed, as above, and everywhere else we quietly trimmed the walking-around portions of the day. If your idea of travel is eight hours on your feet through museums and old towns, August will fight you every step.<\/p>\n<p>None of this ruined anything &#8212; but it did change the trip&#8217;s shape. We came home saying we&#8217;d return for the mountains with a full week and cooler weather. That tells you what August cost us: not the trip, but the version of the trip we&#8217;d first imagined.<\/p>\n\n<!-- Newsletter -->\n<div class=\"htf-nl\">\n<div class=\"htf-nl-label\">Free Rovaniemi Planner<\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Get_our_3-day_Rovaniemi_planner_5_activity_discount\"><\/span>Get our 3-day Rovaniemi planner + 5% activity discount<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Honest travel letters from the Arctic \u2014 real trips, real costs, no sponsored fluff.<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/app.kit.com\/forms\/9367902\/subscriptions\" method=\"post\">\n<input type=\"email\" name=\"email_address\" placeholder=\"your@email.com\" required \/>\n<button type=\"submit\">Send it to me<\/button>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"s4\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_August_quietly_does_brilliantly\"><\/span>What August quietly does brilliantly<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Now the defence, because August genuinely has a case. The sea is the obvious one. Our beach near Split &#8212; a rock beach, not sand &#8212; had some of the cleanest, warmest water we&#8217;ve swum in anywhere, and after a +38&#176;C day, walking into it is a pleasure that cooler months simply cannot offer. In Petrovac in Montenegro, the short coastal path from our hotel led along the shore past castle views to a beach at the end &#8212; done at 18:00, it was the best kind of evening: warm stone, gold light, swim at the far end.<\/p>\n<p>Water-based days in general are August&#8217;s home ground. The Komani Lake ferry in Albania &#8212; over an hour of cliffs and still green water &#8212; comes with its own breeze. Kravica is a swim as much as a sight. And Lipa Cave in Montenegro, the best excursion we did in the whole country, is underground &#8212; caves stay cool year-round, so a heatwave is arguably the perfect day for one. Check current tour times before you drive out; summer schedules tend to be the fullest.<\/p>\n<p>And the evenings. Nothing in the Nordic summer prepares you for how pleasant a Balkan town is at 21:00 in August &#8212; still +28&#176;C or so, everyone out, dinner unhurried on a terrace. We ate later, walked later and slept later than we have on any trip, and it felt less like coping and more like being let in on how the region actually lives.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"s5\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Surviving_it_in_practice_car_clothes_and_driving\"><\/span>Surviving it in practice: car, clothes and driving<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The unglamorous kit list, learned the sweaty way: proper sunscreen (reapplied, not decorative), a real hat each, the most breathable clothes you own, and far more water in the car than feels reasonable &#8212; we kept bottles in the footwells and still ran low on long driving days. Air-conditioning in the car is not optional in August; treat it as a safety feature, not a comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Driving itself deserves a word. Balkan traffic is less patient than what Nordic drivers are used to &#8212; more horn, more improvised overtaking &#8212; and heat shortens everyone&#8217;s fuse, yours included. Our approach: drive slowly, let the beeping wash over you, and never take it personally. In Montenegro especially, don&#8217;t let your navigation app &#8220;save&#8221; you from summer traffic jams by sending you onto tiny one-lane mountain roads &#8212; we followed one of those shortcuts into a reversing standoff and scratched our rental car for the privilege. The bigger road is worth ten or twenty extra minutes, every time.<\/p>\n<p>Two smaller August notes. Book accommodation with air-conditioning confirmed &#8212; everywhere we stayed had it, but it&#8217;s worth checking the listing rather than assuming. And remember that EU roaming does not cover Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina, so sort out <a href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/travel-tech\/best-esim-balkans-yessim\/\">an eSIM for the Balkans<\/a> before you&#8217;re standing in +40&#176;C trying to load a map on no signal.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"s6\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Should_you_do_the_Balkans_in_August_then\"><\/span>Should you do the Balkans in August, then?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Our honest answer: the Balkans in August are a good trip that could be a great one in a different month. We&#8217;d do it again exactly as we did &#8212; and yet, when we go back for the Albanian Alps, we&#8217;ll deliberately pick cooler weather. Both things are true.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Go in August if<\/strong> your trip is coast-first &#8212; beaches, lakes, ferries, long evenings &#8212; or if school holidays give you no choice. Build the siesta pattern in from day one and you&#8217;ll have a wonderful time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Go in August if<\/strong> you&#8217;re happy trading long sightseeing days for short morning ones. The towns are still there at 09:00; they&#8217;re just gone by noon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Skip August if<\/strong> hiking is the point. The Albanian Alps, the Montenegrin mountains &#8212; these deserve a month when you can actually walk in them. We&#8217;d aim for June or September instead; as a general rule the shoulder months bring gentler heat and thinner crowds, though check conditions for the specific trails you want.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Skip August if<\/strong> you overheat easily or travel with anyone who does. This is not a &#8220;push through it&#8221; kind of hot. We&#8217;re fit adults and we restructured our entire day around it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you do go, our <a href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/where-to-stay-in-montenegro\/\">Montenegro base of Petrovac<\/a> was made for an August rhythm &#8212; calm, central, three minutes from the water &#8212; and the full route we drove is written up in our Balkan road trip itinerary if you want the country-by-country shape of it.<\/p>\n\n<!-- FAQ -->\n<h2 id=\"s7\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Frequently_asked_questions\"><\/span>Frequently asked questions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"htf-faq\">\n<details>\n<summary>How hot does it really get in the Balkans in August?<\/summary>\n<p>On our trip, +35&#176;C was a normal day and a few days pushed towards +42&#176;C. Inland areas can run hotter than the coast, where sea breezes take the edge off. Treat +35&#176;C as your planning baseline and anything cooler as a bonus.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is the sea warm enough to swim comfortably?<\/summary>\n<p>Very much so &#8212; the swimming was a highlight of our whole trip. Our rock beach near Split had exceptionally clean, warm water, and the Montenegrin coast at Petrovac was the same. Note that spring-fed spots like Kravica Waterfalls stay cold even in August &#8212; bracing rather than balmy.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is August the most crowded time to visit?<\/summary>\n<p>It&#8217;s peak season across the region, so expect full beaches and busy old towns, especially at midday. Our fix was timing: arriving at Kravica around 17:00 meant the crowds were leaving as we walked in. Early mornings and evenings feel like a different, calmer country.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Can you hike the Albanian Alps in August?<\/summary>\n<p>People do, usually starting very early, but we chose not to &#8212; long exposed stretches in +35&#176;C and above didn&#8217;t seem wise for us. We drove to viewpoints instead and still got the mountains. If hiking is your main goal, we&#8217;d honestly point you at the shoulder months.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Do hotels and rentals have air-conditioning?<\/summary>\n<p>Everywhere we stayed did, from the Albanian Alps to the Montenegrin coast, but don&#8217;t assume &#8212; confirm AC on the listing before you book, especially for smaller guesthouses. In August it matters more than the view.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>When would you go instead of August?<\/summary>\n<p>For the same route we&#8217;d pick June or September: generally gentler heat, and the sea is still swimmable in early autumn by most accounts &#8212; check sea temperatures for your exact dates. We&#8217;re already talking about returning to the mountains in a cooler month with a full week to spare.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"s8\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Our_final_word_from_Rovaniemi\"><\/span>Our final word from Rovaniemi<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Writing this from a September evening in Rovaniemi &#8212; jumper on, +9&#176;C outside &#8212; the August heat already feels like something that happened to two other people. But here&#8217;s the test we keep coming back to: would we cancel that trip, knowing the temperatures in advance? Not for a second. The heat took the hike and half of Split from us; it gave back warm midnight streets, empty late-afternoon waterfalls and the best swimming we&#8217;ve ever had.<\/p>\n<p>So go &#8212; but go on August&#8217;s terms, not yours. Surrender the midday, own the morning and the evening, keep water in the car and patience behind the wheel. And if you can choose your month freely, June or September will give you the same route with the thermostat turned down. Either way, the Balkans are worth the sweat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!-- Author bio -->\n<div class=\"htf-bio\">\n<div class=\"htf-bio-avatar\">J&amp;A<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"htf-bio-tag\">Your writers<\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Joona_Alla\"><\/span>Joona &amp; Alla<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>A Finnish-Ukrainian couple living in Rovaniemi, Finland. Joona is a marketing professional in Lapland tourism; Alla is an AI engineer. Together we have visited 25 countries and write honest, locally-grounded travel content from our home in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/our-story\/\">Read our full story \u2192<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>\n\n<!-- SIDEBAR -->\n<aside class=\"htf-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"htf-sidebar-sticky\">\n\n<div class=\"htf-sb htf-sb-toc\">\n<div class=\"htf-sb-label\">Contents<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#s1\">The real heat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s2\">Our siesta pattern<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s3\">What we cancelled<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s4\">What August does well<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s5\">Practical survival<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s6\">Our verdict<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s7\">FAQ<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#s8\">Final word<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"htf-sb htf-sb-svc\">\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"AI-assisted_content_for_travel_brands\"><\/span>AI-assisted content for travel brands<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Joona &amp; Alla help travel brands write destination content that both humans and AI love.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/work-with-us\/\" class=\"htf-btn\">See our services<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- RELATED -->\n<div class=\"htf-related\">\n<div class=\"htf-related-label\">Keep exploring<\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_from_our_Balkan_summer\"><\/span>More from our Balkan summer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"htf-related-grid\">\n<a class=\"htf-card\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/balkan-road-trip-itinerary\/\">\n<div class=\"htf-card-img\"><span>Destinations<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"htf-card-body\"><div class=\"htf-card-tag\">Destinations<\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Our_Balkan_Road_Trip_Itinerary_Croatia_Bosnia_Montenegro_Albania_in_One_Route\"><\/span>Our Balkan Road Trip Itinerary: Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro &amp; Albania in One Route<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4><p>The full real route we drove &#8212; what we&#8217;d keep, what we&#8217;d change, and how many days each country deserves.<\/p><\/div><\/a>\n<a class=\"htf-card\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/split-croatia-heatwave-guide\/\">\n<div class=\"htf-card-img nor\"><span>Destinations<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"htf-card-body\"><div class=\"htf-card-tag\">Destinations<\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Split_Croatia_in_Summer_An_Honest_Half-Day_Heatwave_Guide\"><\/span>Split, Croatia in Summer: An Honest Half-Day Heatwave Guide<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4><p>How to see Diocletian&#8217;s city when the stone is radiating +38&#176;C back at you &#8212; and where we escaped to swim.<\/p><\/div><\/a>\n<a class=\"htf-card\" href=\"https:\/\/hungrytravelfamily.com\/blog\/destinations\/albanian-alps-without-hiking\/\">\n<div class=\"htf-card-img lap\"><span>Destinations<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"htf-card-body\"><div class=\"htf-card-tag\">Destinations<\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Albanian_Alps_Without_Hiking_Viewpoints_You_Can_Drive_To\"><\/span>The Albanian Alps Without Hiking: Viewpoints You Can Drive To<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4><p>The heat cancelled our hike, so we drove instead &#8212; and these roadside views became a highlight of the whole trip.<\/p><\/div><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balkans in August means +35-42\u00b0C. 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