With shape-shifting scenery reminiscent of an eerie moonscape or the gnarled mountains of Caucasia, Durmitor offers visitors the most splendid of isolation, all just three hours from the coast.
With its comparably haunting scenery, including rice fields in the south and misty mountains in the north, its temples, some of which predate Angkor Wat, and its relative lack of crowds, Laos, ready or not, may just be it.