INFORMATION

Tourist information
The NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE OF SERBIA (NTOS) have their headquarters at Dečanska 8, 11000 Belgrade (tel/fax: +381 11 3342 521, 3232 685, 322 1068; email ntos@yubc.net). They have an informative website at www.serbia-tourism.org. NTOS have information centres at many of the land border crossings into Serbia: from Hungary at Bački Breg, Kelebija and Horgoš; from Romania at Vatin and Kaluđerovo; from Macedonia at Preševo; from Croatia at Batrovci and Bezdan; from Bosnia-Herzegovina at Sremska Rača, Badovinci, Trbušnica and Mali Zvornik. NTOS are normally helpful and courteous, answering enquiries and offering a range of maps and illustrated booklets.
In Belgrade, the main branch of the TOURIST ORGANISATION OF BELGRADE is in the underpass by the Albania Tower at the bottom end of Kneza Mihaila, and also at Kneza Mihaila 18 (tel:+381 11 629 992). They also have a counter at International Arrivals at Belgrade Surčin Airport.
Getting there and away
By air
Several airlines serve Belgrade directly. These include the national carrier JAT Airways, British Airways, Air France, Alitalia, Austrian Airlines, ČSA Czech Airlines, KLM, Lufthansa, Olympic Airways, Swiss, Turkish Airlines, Tunis Airlines, Aeroflot-Russian Airlines, Aerosvit-Ukrainian Airlines, Russian Airlines-Montavia and Montenegro Airlines.
From the UK
There are direct flights to Belgrade with JAT from Heathrow every day except Monday, and British Airways, which files to Belgrade five times a week with flights that leave Heathrow in the morning to conveniently arrive in Belgrade about midday. The return flight leaves early afternoon to arrive at Heathrow by mid afternoon. There are also BA flights three times a week between London Gatwick and Priština in Kosovo.
From Europe
JAT has direct flights that connest Belgrade with Amsterdam, Athens, Banja Luka, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Goteborg, Hamburg, Hanover, Istanbul, Kiev, Larnaca, Ljubljana, London, Malta, Munich, Moscow, Paris, Prague, Sarajevo, Skopje, Stockholm, Trieste, Vienna and Zurich. The best-connected of these are Paris with 15 flights a week, Skopje with 13 and Zurich with 22 weekly connections.
From Middle East
There are also limited services with Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Tel Aviv, Tripoli and Tunis.
From the US
It is necessary to connect a transatlantic flight in one of the European hubs like London, Paris or Amsterdam.
City transport
Local bus transport serves all urban areas throughout the country, with additional trolleybus and tram services operating in some of the larger towns and cities.
Eating and drinking
Serbian cuisine is similar to that of other Balkan countries. Although there are hints of the Mediterranean in the cooking, most Serbian food is on the heavy side: lard is used extensively instead of olive oil and there is a tendency towards greasiness. This is not the whole picture, of course. While meat is enjoyed in quantity at every possible opportunity, so are fresh vegetables, and in a country where fresh, unadulterated produce is still a fact of life-fertilisers and pesticides are rarely used-it is possible, with a little careful selection, to eat well whatever one`s personal dietary tastes might be. If you are vegetarian you will need to declare, "Ja sam vegetarijanac" if you are a man, or "Ja sam vegetarijanka" if female. It`s probably better to be more specific and say "Ne jedem meso"-"I don`t eat meat"-perhaps adding. "Ne jedem pileće meso, ribu ni šunku" - "I don’t eat chicken, fish or ham"- to be on the safe side.
A typical meal might consist of kajmak -a sort of salty, cream-cheese spread-with bread to start, then a grilled meat like ćevapčići with a salad. Fresh fruit is a likely to conclude a meal as any sweet dish. While wine is often chosen to accompany a meal, something stronger like a glass or two of šljivovica might well precede it as a high-octane aperitif. For many Serbians, lunch (ručak) is the main meel of the day, followed by something a bit lighter for dinner (večera).
Telephones
Halo telephone cards can be bought from post offices and kiosks at 150, 200 and 300 din value.They work in the more modern orange phones, which conveniently have buttons to change foreign-language settings.
Important phone numbers police 92, fire department 93, ambulance 94.

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