We took a day trip to Montenegro today. Here is a map of the area we drove through.
We started on the left in Croatia and drove through Herceg Novi to Kamenari where we took a ferry to Lepetani. We drove south through Porto Montenegro then up to the lookout point (just below and to the right of Kotor Town on the map). This is the view from there.
We then stopped in Kotor, which has a compact Old Town shaped like a triangle. The two sides facing the bay are heavily fortified by a thick wall, and the third side is under the cliff face. The wall is nearly three miles long and sits on some extremely inaccessible terrain. It was built over a millennium (9th-19th centuries, though most of it was completed during the Venetian occupation in the 17th and 18th centuries). Its thickness varies from 6 to 50 feet, and the tallest parts are 65 feet high. If you look closely you can see the wall continuing up and over the hill.
Here are a few of the things we saw on our brief visit.
We next drove to Perast and took a short boat ride to Our Lady of the Rocks church out on an island.
This is Perast from the boat.
And this is the church.
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