Kotor
Travel Blogs from Kotor, Serbia and Montenegro
Montenegro's Amazing Adriatic Fjords
Mediterranean cruise- 21st Sept- Kotor, Montenegro. Set deeply in a labyrinth of mountain surrounded fjords (see the red dot on the first map photo) Kotor in Montenegro is an exciting place to arrive at by cruise ship as it very scenically takes about ...
Kotor
Montenegro has only broken free from Serbia in the last year or so.... Its on the euro which surprised us all and its not as cheap as you'd think! This was proven when we got to the boarder... you have to pay for insurance to get in to the country, ...
Kotor - Montenegro
... , or a business from one of the places we've checked out on the trip. Cambodia was ticking some of the boxes, and Montenegro certainly did too. More on that later. Once we'd bought van insurance at the border (most UK insurance companies ...
Kotor
Our bus to Kotor was a minibus but pretty comfortable and a great scenic drive. Kotor is the main town situated on a large bay. The amazing thing is that the bay is surrounded by mountains, not gentle sloping hills but big rocky mountains that drop ...
Kotor, Montenegro
... caffiene. The windows were clean on the way back, and when we got to Herceg Novi, the bus was almost late and the aussie would have been stuck in Montenegro. Made it just in time. Said our goodbyes. I had a few hours to kill before the bus to Macedonia, ...
Splendor
... enough little city. But we counted days and in the end decided to take a taxi up to Kotor (no more buses for the night), covering most of Montenegro's coast in the dark. Montenegro feels, well, like Europe. Good roads, everything following the expected ...
Montenegro-Kotor
Depois do Parque Natural,assentei arraias em Kotor, uma cidade Unesco, a beira do maior fiorde da europa, fora da noruega. E uma cidade mt pequena, mas lindissima, xeia de ruelas, barzinhos e com um pequeno porto. Fikei a dormir num quarto, em casa duma ...
Where it all went wrong, terribly, terribly wrong
... it was our turn. Passports and car registration checked, it was announced that our car insurance was suddenly not valid in Montenegro and we were forced to pay €15 for additional insurance for ten days. (Despite our knowledge that it is ...
May 10, 2010
Get your Kotor Running
Out of Croatia, into another country with a big 'WAR' tag around its neck - Serbia and Montenegro. The country is actually three provinces, 2 of which seem happy together and the third, Kosovo, which obviously isn't. We got fed up of Croatia and it ...
An illuminated old fortress with lots of goats
... off at the stop right before the border), I arrived in Kotor, Montenegro. As there are no hostels in Kotor (there's only one hostel in all of Montenegro and it's only open during the summer), I knew I'd need to rely on the friendly touts greeting me ...
goosebumps
... . It would have taken some serious wandering for me to find it myself. We're greeted by the unbelievably friendly staff at Montenegro Hostel. We check in, and head out to explore the town. It's easy to spot the new tourists in this town. They're the ones ...
Driving around Crna Gora
... but for me the novelty would wear off quickly. We then headed a few k north into Budva, which is Tourism Central for Montenegro. Lots of resorty hotels and restaurants and such. For that sort of place, I found it less offensive than most. Budva retains a ...
Kotor and Memory cards......
Kotor, Montenegro- cool little old city. So Kimberly has started to get a cold, stayed on the ship. So Stewart went out on his own to see the city. CRAP- modern technology sucks!!!! one of the SD cards we have just stopped ...
kotor, le plus beau fjord d'europe centrale
... catherine paradis, une cegepienne d-aylmer qui s-en allait dans le meme coin que moi... alors on a voyage ensemble jusqu-a kotor... ici c-est tout simplement magnifique... j-habite avec une vieille famille serbe... j-ai rencontre ici bob et karl, 2 ...
Montenegro
... . Vladimir, our guide, surmised that the spray was water and that it was simply an excuse to collect a fee. Montenegro is a beautiful place, and its inhabitants enjoy a leisurely pace of life. When asked what people do in Montenegro, Vladimir replied, ...
The 2 euro 'Croatia tax'
... bus from Split to Dubrovnik, where we would have 2 hours before we got another bus to the remote town of Kotor in Montenegro. We got onto the bus and paid our total rape fine of 2 euro each to take our bags onto the bus - cheapskate ripoff croatians!!! ...
en amour avec kotor
... de plusieurs pays par exemple, de mostar a ici, il a fallu traverser en croatie, revenir en bosnie et enfin arriver au montenegro... et en plus aujourd,hui je voyais les montagnes d-albanie... je m-explique les conflits entre albanais et serbes mais pas ...
Montenegro Blue
... Montenegro is mountainous, so only a small proportion is coastline. The population is only 650,000 and it became independent from Serbia in 2006. The word "Montenegro" means “black mountain”. Before 2006, it was one of the six countries ...
Kotor, Montenegro August 21-23
... have no water. Unlike in Belgrade, however, this situation was fixed in a matter of hours. So Kotor is a small town on the coast of Montenegro that lies next to "the biggest fjord in Southern Europe" which actually isn't super impressive after ...
Kotor!!
Ok, is anyone actually reading this stuff? Kotor was my first foray into Montenegro, an interesting little country that also used to be part of Yugoslavia. Except they quit it. I think they a wee bit lonely, considering everyone else was doing it, felt ...
MONTENEGRO
... low italian king Vittorio Emanuele III and the tall Queen Margherita who was born in Cetinje, belonged to the Royal family of Montenegro and....gave the name to the famous Pizza Margherita as the first one was prepared in her honour. From Cetinje I took ...
Hot 'n Fun
... it is a phenomenal place, so I was really looking forward to it. First good sign - checked into the Kotor branch of the Montenegro Hostel, and the lady that owns it, Gordana, was really pleasant. Didn't know what to expect, since some internet ...
First stop - Kotor
... and spa. As I did my session on the bike on the 9th deck the ship followed another cruise ship into Kotor harbour through a channel with islands and steep mountains on both sides – magnificent view – what a way to exercise! That afternoon we ...
Hell of a climb, but well worth it for the view.
... easy boarding crossing with no trouble, we are starting to get very used to them now. Anyway we made our way to our hostel (Montenegro Hostel) which was located in the old part of town and proceeded to get settled. We were unable to get a private room so ...
Loving Montenegro
Molly and I planned on taking the 10 am bus to Kotor, Montenegro and meeting at 9:15 at the bus station. Both of us were a bit late, so by the time we bought tickets the first bus was full so we had to wait until nearly 11 for the second bus. Reece was ...
Hiking to the fortifications
... our hilarious Macedonian waiter named Robert. We were all planning on heading outside of the Durmitor National Park to go rafting along the Montenegro-Bosnia border in the biggest canyon in Europe on the Tara River. I went back to the hostel to shower and ...

