Where The £A Goes Furthest

Spain, which long got most favoured nation treatment from travellers who liked value for money, is in danger of losing its position to Yugoslavia, now described as the bargainland of the Balkans.

ACCORDING to Pan American, which supplied most of the fol lowing information, Yugoslavia is one of the few places where the Aus tralian £ (which has the horrifying ability to shrink by 25 per cent, even on a four-hour flight across the Tas man), stretches like pure rubber. £A3 per day will get you room, bath and three meals at the best hotels.

Tours, too, are priced at bargain rates with plenty of variety for sightseers—from the beaches of Dal matia to the Byzantine bazaars of Bosnia.

As varied as the landscape are the people—S crb s, Croats, Bosnians, Macedonians, Slovenes and Mon tenegrins—plus Hungarians in the north and Albanians in the south.

Yugoslavia means “Land of the South Slavs”; it is 96,000 sq. miles in

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