Montenegro
                                                               Montenegro South

Five hikes through the coastal region of Montenegro between - roughly - the Croatian and Albanian border. This hiking area is from an unprecedented, virginal and unspoiled beauty, includes the Lovcen massif National Park and the National Park Skadar Lake, the Bay of Kotor with its well preserved medieval towns and  - all the way – the remains of former dynasties and rulers.

Tips: to get to the hiking area hikers can fly to Dubrovnik (Croatia) and proceed by car/bus or taxi to Herzeg Novi (about 40 km’s). Here we started our hikes. (Flying to Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, is also a possibility).

Maps and accommodation: the routes we walked were very well marked. For eating and sleeping, transport, the transfers between the hikes and advice we had a lot of support from Zalaz.me, the project of Vlatko Bulatović, mountain guide. Montenegro’s infrastructure for hikers is getting better during the recent years, but support from local people is still important.

April 2010: five hikes, 15-20 km.’s, through an unique landscape by oftentimes old Austrian
Hungarian roads with phenomenal views, ending with the view at the with Easter snowy mountain ranges of Albania.

Day 1:

transport form Herzeg Novi to Crkvice

Crkvice – Grkavac

transport to Perast at the Bay of Kotor

 

Day 2:

Perast –fortress Vranovo Brdo (743 m.) –Orahovac

transport to Perast ( 6,5 km.)

 

Day 3:

transport to Gornja Lastva
Gornja Lastva - Vrmac – Kotor ( the old town)
transport to  Njegusi

 

Day 4:

Njegusi - Krstac- Ivanova Korita (1261 m.)
transport to Smokovci

 

Day 5:
Smokovci - Poseljani - Rijeka Crnojevica
transport to Virpazar

 

Day 6:
transport to Dubrovnik, views at Lake Skadar and the Bojana river.




Map                                                        Return to start

On the way: the Habsburg dynastie fortresses, the old town of Kotor, inscribed on the World Heritage List of Unesco, Njegusi, the native soil of the last Montenegrin royal family, abandoned villages but also very hospitable people who decided to stay. At the return you can eat excellent fish at the Bojana river……

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Lady of the rocks, day 2

Bay of kotor, day 4

Hospitality