Day seven and this is officially my favourite day of the entire Peaks of the Balkans trail, so you have a lot to enjoy. Firstly, I mentioned in the previous day that you can take a transport option up to Leqiant. I highly recommend this as it is just a tar seal road and will add an additional 10 kilometers and 750 metres of elevation to your day.
After being dropped off at the start of the trail at Leqiant you will enter an amazing woodlands trail. It’s a consistent ascent for five kilometers but the trees offer much needed shelter, and you can even hear birds chirping everywhere.
At the halfway point you will reach a swimmable lake that marks a great place to have a quick break. Theres definitely a better lake the next day, but we never miss the opportunity to take a quick dip. Afterwards you will continue up to the top where you will eventually reach the ridgeline. This ridgeline is why this was our favourite day on the walk. You are essentially walking through beautiful meadows for the next five kilometers. You can even see over to Roshkodol Pass and where you were walking three days earlier.
Theres plenty of amazing spots to take a break for lunch. We stopped close to the end at about the nineth kilometer of the day.
Eventually you will reach the end and begin a reasonably sharp descent down to the bottom into Babino Polje. We can’t tell if it is just day seven legs or the amazing views, but this descent didn’t feel that bad considering the distance covered.
Once at the bottom you are officially in Babino Polje, however it’s quite spread out so it could be a few kilometers of walking along the flat before you reach your guesthouse. We stayed in the infamous Triangle Woodhouse, known for “having the best food on the Peaks of the Balkans trail”. It did not disappoint. The owner was even one of the initiators of the Peaks of the Balkans project and gave us a recount of the thirteen-year journey that they have been on, including the intangible value that it has brought to the region, even acting as a way to improve the relationship between Montenegro, Albania, and Kosovo after the war.