Tag 14: Sombor - Bačka Palanka

After a quick breakfast with coffee (the kitchen at the campsite was well equipped) and cereal bars, I set off shortly after 8 a.m. This morning it was very cloudy, but no rain. In Apatin I drove past the "Jelen" brewery and then had a third breakfast in a bakery. The route today was quite unimpressive in terms of scenery, it mainly went past fields. At the beginning it was mainly country roads / field paths that were in varying condition. Later on, I went over a dam again a lot. You can't see much of the Danube here, it is mostly hidden by a row of trees behind the dam. Later on, the route conditions became really adventurous in places, at times you wished you had a full-suspension mountain bike. But it went quite well with the gravel bike, especially the luggage sat really well despite massive potholes. On some of the paths I wondered how you would get through them if it had rained for a few days. I can't and don't want to imagine what a mud fight that would be.

In the afternoon the clouds cleared a little and the sun came out. I reached Bačka Palanka around 5 p.m. Here I checked into the Hotel Fontana, as there was no campsite and the marshland on the banks of the Danube is a protected landscape area. I didn't want to camp wild there.