CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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982 km from Podgorica to Podgorica, about 23 h 22 of riding. It goes by way of Fortified city of Kotor, Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K, Lumi i gashit and back through Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K. The highest point is about 1,500 m. It crosses from Montenegro into Albania - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 12 km this is Adriatic Highway, Jadranska Magistrala, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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Podgorica is Montenegro's capital, and you could drive past it without knowing, because it has few of the old stones and picture-book bays that fill the coast. It lies in a broad plain where the Morača and Ribnica rivers meet, about thirty kilometres from the shore of Lake Skadar, with mountains circling it. About a hundred and forty thousand people live here, nearly a quarter of the country, and it is a young, busy place of cafes and traffic.
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Podgorica 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 55 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.
Read the complete Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K write-up.
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109 km in you reach Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K. Next is Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K.
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Read the complete Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K write-up.
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Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K, about halfway. Next is Lumi i gashit.
Here the borders of Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania meet in the Prokletije, the Accursed Mountains, a rugged range of limestone peaks that rises above two thousand metres and is among the wildest country in the Balkans. The label uses the Albanian name for a stream, Lumi i Gashit, the river of Gashi, and the nearest places on the Montenegrin side are Plav and Gusinje, where Albanians and Bosniaks make up a large share of the population. Plav sits on a glacial lake, a cold, clear body of water ringed by high peaks, with a small mosque, an old Ottoman tower house and a quiet lakeshore promenade.
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Lumi i gashit sits at 218 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 273 km in. Next is back through Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K.
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Read the complete Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K write-up.
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327 km in you reach back through Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K. Next is back through Fortified city of Kotor.
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Read the complete Fortified city of Kotor write-up.
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back through Fortified city of Kotor, late in the day. Next is Podgorica.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Podgorica write-up.
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The route ends here after 982 km.
Podgorica → Fortified city of Kotor is 54 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 → Lumi i gashit is 152 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Lumi i gashit → back through Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K is 152 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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 → Podgorica is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.