CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 174 km round trip from Budva - roughly 4 h 36 in the saddle. On the way it passes Fortified city of Kotor, Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K, St. Barbara and back through Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K. It crosses from Montenegro into Croatia - carry ID and check the toll rules.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 21 km this is Adriatic Highway, Jadranska Magistrala, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
Budva is one of the oldest towns on the Adriatic, and it carries the claim lightly, between nightclubs. The walled old town sits on a small rocky peninsula, a tight cluster of stone houses, churches and narrow lanes protected by a ring of Venetian walls, and tradition suggests that a settlement has stood here for about two and a half thousand years. In 1979 a strong earthquake damaged much of it, and the rebuilt streets have a slightly too-neat look. The citadel on the seaward side, with its small museum, gives a view along the coast.
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Budva is where the day begins. Next is Fortified city of Kotor.
Kotor is a walled medieval town squeezed between a vertical limestone mountain and a deep green bay, and the whole arrangement looks almost too neat to be real. The bay is not a fjord, as people like to say, but a drowned river canyon, a ria, whose channels twist inland in several arms so that the mountains seem to close behind you as you ride around it. Black Mountain, Montenegro itself, takes its name from the dark forest on Mount Lovcen, which rises straight above the town to nearly fifteen hundred metres.
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Fortified city of Kotor comes up 16 km in. Next is Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K.
The Bay of Kotor is a drowned river canyon on the Montenegrin coast, a set of linked basins pushed deep into the limestone mountains, and here at its inner reaches, around Risan and Perast, it feels more like a Norwegian fjord than the Adriatic. The mountains drop almost straight into the water, the villages cling to a thin strip of shore, and the light changes the colour of the sea from green to steel to deep blue as the day goes on. The whole region is on the UNESCO list for its natural beauty and the cultural layering of its little towns.
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33 km in you reach Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K. Next is Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K.
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Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K, about halfway. Next is St. Barbara, 17 km on.
Konavle is the long, fertile valley that runs south east of Dubrovnik towards the Montenegrin border, and St. Barbara is a small church at Dubravka, near its upper edge, surrounded by a field of medieval tombstones. These stećci, heavy carved blocks of limestone dating from the late Middle Ages, are part of the cross-border UNESCO listing of stećci cemeteries shared by Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. The Dubravka group is one of the most accessible in Croatia, and the setting, with the church, the old stones and the view over the valley, is quietly beautiful.
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St. Barbara sits at 66 km, about halfway. Next is back through Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K.
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back through Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K comes up 82 km in.
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98 km in you reach back through Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K. Next is back through Fortified city of Kotor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Fortified city of Kotor, late in the day. Next is Budva.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Budva write-up.
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The route ends here after 174 km.
Budva → Fortified city of Kotor is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortified city of Kotor → Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K → St. Barbara is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
St. Barbara → back through Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K → back through Fortified city of Kotor is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortified city of Kotor → Budva is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.