Drina river house - the most popular refuge in Serbia.
It is a wooden, cabin-like house on the rock in the middle of the Drina river, near the town of Bajina Bašta in western Serbia. The original object was built in 1968 by a group of swimmers who needed a shelter. Until 2019, it was destroyed 7 times during the high water level in the river, but was rebuilt every time.
The isolated rock on which the house is built is almost right in the middle of the river, close to the modern border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The rock has been used by the swimmers as a resting place between either continuing to swim across to the other side, or back to the bank from which they came. However, during the summer, the rock would get scorching hot. In the summer of 1968, brothers Milija and Milan Mandić, with a group of their friends, decided to build a cabin or a hut on the rock. They decided to use the planks of wood brought by the river itself. In the end, they managed to erect a simple shelter. After the rainy season began later in the autumn, the Drina washed away the object.
In the summer of 1969, the local youth organized and built a cabin. Lighter materials, including planks, were transported directly to the rock by the boats and kayaks, while the timber rafting was used for the heavier lumber logs.
The house started to gain prominence after the establishing of the Drina Regatta in 1994. The route of the regatta passes next to the house, so many non-local people became aware of its existence, as the regatta has up to 20,000 participants, including many from abroad.
The house became one of the most photographed objects in Serbia. A photo of it was chosen as one of the Photos of the Month of ‘’National Geographic’’ in August 2012. ‘’Business Insider’’ named it among 16 “wackiest” houses, while numerous world magazines wrote stories about it.
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