Spring 2024 Europe Trip (Part 10): Spending 2 Days In Belgrade: Underrated?

On 27 May, I did have to rebook tickets because I accidentally bought a Transprodukt bus from Sarajevo to Belgrade for 28 May even though I was meant to purchase the ticket for the 27th. Due to this, I ended up with Kondor bus, which demanded I pay 3 BAM in cash to put my bag under. Before about 19:40, I only ate a croissant from Caribou Coffee as well as a bag of crisps, but after, I ate at Restoran Black George before returning to an unnamed hotel in Dorcol. On the next day, I immediately went around the Republic Square (Trg Republike) before stopping by the Narodni Museum of Serbia which acts not only as a history museum, but also a mini art museum of sorts, but is extremely affordable compared to many other art museums because the permanent exhibitions only cost 300 RSD (2.56 EUR). Next up, I walked through the Kneza Mihaila Street (a famous street) to get to Kalemegdan Park/Belgrade Fortress which is the most popular tourist attraction in all of Belgrade. Even though the Belgrade Fortress is free, there is a small fee to enter the Military Museum in Belgrade at 350 RSD for adults (3 EUR). After leaving the Belgrade Fortress, I went to several churches, notably the Ružica Church as well as the St. Mark Orthodox Church at the Tasmajdan Park before heading towards the guided tour at the Nikola Tesla Museum, which is the only place (other than my hotel accommodation) which demanded I pay using cash. But before taking a guided tour, I did have to stop by Ćevabdžinica Savčić Vračar to try out cevapi, which is a local Serbian/Balkan dish. After enjoying the Nikola Tesla Museum, I returned to my hotel accommodation where the next day, I ended up trying Tri Sesira (an iconic restaurant) at Skadarlija (second most renowned attraction in Belgrade) and afterwards, I visited the Temple of St Sava and the Museum of Yugoslavia (about half of it), which includes the House of Flowers, where Josip Broz Tito was buried, before having to embark for the bus station where I would be going non-stop to Skopje in North Macedonia (FYROM).
Now in my opinion, due to the fact there are a lot of amenities (both well known people as well as affordable amenities), restaurants, decent public transportation, as well as affordable accommodations, I do think Belgrade is amongst my top cities in Europe, along with Warsaw (which also has a lot of amenities as well as reasonably priced hotels). However, the problem stems with the fact there might be hurdles for some people as there are some countries (mainly Central American countries, Venezuela, and Malaysia) where people could visit the Schengen area visa free but not Serbia. However, for any other nationals that could visit Schengen visa-free, they could visit Serbia visa free and if you are a Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Chinese, Indonesian, etc, citizen, then good news, even though you couldn't visit the Schengen area visa free, you could still visit Serbia visa-free. However, despite the fact Serbia is less developed than the likes of Croatia, Poland, or Hungary, it is still nonetheless transitioning between a developing and developed country and therefore, you would have a lot of creature comforts anyways.
A fun fact of Belgrade is even though Nikola Tesla was an ethnic Serb born in Croatia and is revered in Serbia, with the Belgrade international airport named after him as well as his picture imprinted onto the 100 RSD bill, he only visited Belgrade for 31 hours, yes, 31 hours. That meant he spent less time in Belgrade than me on this trip alone.
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