Hello, Grandpacker. Based on your post it would appear you did not examine these forums in any great detail before posting. Our shared interest here is in backcountry trekking, carrying not just our clothes, but our food, water, shelter and everything else we might need, then camping out in the wilderness. There are some similarities, but I personally wouldn't feel competent to tell you about travel in the Balkans based on my decades of backcountry camping in the western USA.

A few of our members have also done some cheap international travel and may be able to give you some guidance based on that, but their presence here is incidental to the main subject: outdoor recreation.