The PhotoHunt Theme is WILD. So, I’ll show you the wild horses of Durmitor National Park.
One day, we decided to leave sea level Kotor and head for one of Montenegro’s highest points. After all, we were in Montenegro for the wild interior, not for the beach. We drove north to Pluzine and entered Durmitor National Park from the west.
Well above the tree line, the peaks of the Durmitor are rocky & grassy with permanent snow in crevices that the sun never warms.

These are mountains with high meadows for summer grazing — both by domestic animals brought up for the season by shepherds, and by the WILD horses of the area.

It took us a while to get high enough to see those horses, however. As we left the low meadow crossroads of Trsa and headed into Durmitor National Park, our goal of the peaks was far in the distance across the fields of summer flowers.

We climbed higher and the trees and the flowers disappeared. The grass became shorter and greener and the rocky rubble more prevalent.

We finally reached a point where the road leveled off and we were traveling parallel to the uppermost peaks. At about 2,200 meters, the road was about to turn downhill and take us out the eastern side of the park on our way to Zabljak.

At the road’s summit, we stopped the car beside this memorial. We never did find out who it honored, or how the person came to be memorialized.