"Ukraine-Montenegro" difficult journey
My first rule of rest. Rest begins with the road and the chosen vehicle.
So, if you decide to complicate your vacation from the very beginning, then forget that there are 1800 km from Ukraine to Montenegro and feel free to choose a trip on the old MANN. You can promise yourself (in order to explain such a bold choice to yourself) that you will never see such views from the airplane window, you will not be able to drive along the autobahn in Serbia from which the MiGs rose into the sky, in order to somehow remind the Americans that that not everyone agrees with their ideas about democracy. You will not be able to stand on the edge of the deepest canyon in Europe (there is no special excursion there - you can only drive it on the way to Budva - the main tourist center of Montenegro). From the window of an airplane you will not see how trains fly out of the tunnels in the mountains and also disappear there (70% of the electric train from Belgrade to Montenegro consists of passing tunnels in the pitch darkness, cut into the rocks by political prisoners back in the time of Tittto). True, when you get on the bus, you still don’t know that almost a day of attractive serpentine roads in the mountains can also get boring and then from somewhere there appears a persistent desire behind the nearest, without exaggeration to say, sharp turn - to see a flat valley - without mountains, rocks, fast (and I must say - absolutely transparent) mountain rivers. But when patience was already ready to treacherously "wash its hands", when already 38 hours spent on the bus, they made me remind a hundred times that I would not send any of my tourists on such a "vacation" and what I thought, etc. etc.... And suddenly in the middle of the night, very far below, a wonderful panorama of a night resort town opens up. With a lot of hotels, villas, houses. . . Alleys, parks, piers, walls of the Old Town and new areas are illuminated with different colors, different patterns and lines of lanterns. . . and such a panorama stretches along the entire line of the Adriatic coast. And here again comes a very not new idea that you won’t see this through the window of an airplane (all the more, you won’t be able to truly rejoice at all the delights and prospects of a civilized dream).
The bus took us to a restaurant on the embankment, beautiful yachts, small fishing boats, pleasure boats calmly rocked on the waves near the piers. The wind brought the smell of the sea, palm trees gave it all the theme of the real south.
At the table, as if nothing had happened - it seems that a group of Ukrainian tourists bursts into their restaurant every day at the first hour of the night in an organized crowd, ready to serve a couple of waiters. I'm not a big drinker, but this time the wine at night was very welcome.
My rest rule number two: if the road, to put it mildly, failed - forget about it until the morning.
Waking up in a villa in the resort town of Budva, you immediately want to drink a cup of coffee and run to the sea. There are a lot of cafes and restaurants along the Budva embankment, so breakfast is no problem. After the sea, you can walk along the walls of the old fortress, go to the churches, i. e. - relax and have fun.
The next day - you can go on excursions, there are many of them - to Kottors with a walk on the reef of St. Jura and the Virgin Mary (although these are, of course, not reefs, but islets in the Bokko-Kotor inlet), you can go to Croatia - to Dubrovnik, or to the Plitvice Lakes; or visit the estate of a Montenegrin, where the owner himself will show you how they make wine and olive oil, treat you with local vodka - raki, and dried meat. You can look at the nudist island of Ada. Every day there is a place to go.
The beaches are mostly pebble, in Budva - urban, in Becichi, Rafailovichi - hotels have their own, but there are also urban ones. Sandy beaches only in Ulcinj.
