Bay of Kotor - the black mountain
Montenegro is one of Europes smallest and youngest countries, claiming independence in 2006 and having a population just above 600.000. Not a country I know a lot who has visited, but if you ever are on these coasts, I'd say it's definately worth your time.
The already long 7 hours drive from Sarajevo to the Bay of Kotor turned out to be a lot longer, a long queue at the first of many border crossings took it's time, and so did most of everything else this day. We did however get there in the end, and got a quick guided tour through this cozy small city by the bay.
On the mountainridge behind the city there was a fortress which offered a nice hiking oppurtunity. It became dark before we had the chance on arrival day, but we were a few who planned to get up there in the morning to see the sunrise. I got up at 04:45 and left the hotel fifteen minutes later. The climb was supposed to be about half an hour according to our guide, while our main guide said it was a bit longer. It took me 22mins including several stops to take photoes as the one to the left. None of the others were to be seen on my way up, the hour I spent up there, nor on my way back, however one of my fellow travelers had been running half way up during the time I spent at the fortress without me noticing him.
A return to the hotel at still an early time meant I could steal an hour sleep before breakfast and our agreed time to go to the beach-city of Bodva which was about half an hour away by taxi.This city was quite similar to Kotor, but had even more tourists than the cruise passengers that filled Kotor during the day. The beach was packed, but as there were three beaches next to each other we went to the farthest end of the third and got a nice spot anyway. Although not before we'd had lunch with some amazing pancakes with fresh fruit and icecream.
Post title references Montenergo which is translated to "black mountain", and the fact that the mountain was rather black/dark as it should be with a name like that.
