Zabljak is situated at the North-West of Montenegro, in the heart of Durmitor area, at the height of 1.456 m, and hence the highest settlement in the Balkans, as the most famous Montenegrin winter tourism centre. It is surrounded by 23 mountain peaks, each over 2.200 meters high, 17 lakes and a canyon of river Tara, the deepest canyon in Europe, and all as a part of a mountain massive with incredible beauty of Durmitor. The wonderful beauty of this massive is complemented by a fact that even 1.500 various plant species and over 150 bird species live there. And it is no wonder that the National Park of Durmitor is registered within the UNESCO world heritage since 1980.
The highest peak of Durmitor massive is Bobotov kuk (or among the people Cirova cave or Heaven's Soa) with 2.523 m height over the sea level. This massive has a sub-mountain climate up to 1.200 meters height, and over it there is the Alps climate, with average annual air temperature between and 2 and 8 C. Regarding the climate as well, the massive has a very characteristic appearance of temperature inversion, meaning that when the cool air and fog fall down in lower areas and river valleys, the sunny weather and warm air move to higher mountain areas. In one part of the Massive named Great Kalica, where so-called Thick snowdrift is between 200 and 300 meters long, you can ski in the mid of the summer. The blessings of such nature gave to Zabljak, in addition to winter, also the summer tourist season. Zabljak is mentioned for the first time as the settlement in the Chronicle of Priest of Duklja of 12 th century. Its original Slav name was “Verezina voda” (Waters of Vereza), later “Hanovi” (Inns) or originally “Anovi”, and it got today's name in 1870. Around ten monasteries and churches in the settlement and nearby with several winter and summer manifestations, among them as well the Angel Championship and the Days of Mountain Flowers, ski places Savin kuk (2 cable railways, ski-lift and two baby lifts), Stuoc (2 cable railways) and Javorovaca (ski-lift), several travel agencies, around twenty catering facilities, 8 hotels and motels with around 1.000 beds, around ten pensions, resorts, mountain logs with around 500 beds are not sufficient and good basis for continued tourist development Zabljak had in years 80' in the last century.