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Karaš

The Karaš or Caraș is a 110-kilometre (68 mi) long river in the Banat region of Vojvodina, Serbia and Romania and a left tributary of the Danube.

Karaš
Karaš · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Karaš or Caraș is a 110-kilometre (68 mi) long river in the Banat region of Vojvodina, Serbia and Romania and a left tributary of the Danube. The Karaš drains an area of 1,400 square kilometres (540 sq mi) and although it has been channeled it is not navigable.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Karaš

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Danube–Tisa–Danube Canal

    Danube–Tisa–Danube Canal is a canal system in Serbia. It is a unique hydro-engineering system for flood control and hydrotechnical management, amelioration, forestry, water supply, waste water evacuation, navigation, tourism, fishing, hunting.

    1.6 km · canal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ram Fortress

    The Ram Fortress is a 15th century fort situated on a steep slope on the right bank of the Danube, in the village of Ram, municipality of Veliko Gradište, eastern Serbia. The fortress is located on a rock, which is from the northeast side tilted towards the Danube.

    2.3 km · fortress in Serbia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Labudovo okno

    Labudovo okno is a special nature reserve and a Ramsar treaty designated wetland of international importance in Serbia.

    2.9 km · Serbian nature reserve and Ramsar site · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Karaš

Airports
Belgrade Nikola Tesla (BEG), 79 km · Timișoara Traian Vuia (TSR), 109 km · Niš Constantine the Great (INI), 172 km
  • Belgrade → Karaš
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · din185–245
  • Niš → Karaš
    197 km · quickest by road, 5h 13m · din1,400–1,870
  • Timişoara → Karaš
    74 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · lei25–33
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Karaš

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Karaš. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBetween towns you can catch a minibus, and Keetmanshoop is on the route of the big coaches that travel to Windhoek, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
  • Get aroundYou can book private tours (a 4x4 and a driver) in the bigger towns of Keetmanshoop and Lüderitz.
  • Get aroundPhone the host whether you need a 4x4 or not.

From Wikivoyage: ǁKaras, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    384 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    394 km
  3. 03
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    426 km
  4. 04
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    529 km
  5. 05
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    575 km

If you know how people move in Karaš – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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