Free rest full of impressions
My husband and I love to travel on our own. After a trip to Croatia 2 years ago, when we saw how simple everything really is with housing - a bunch of apartments for rent, come and choose, and not 3-5 options for the whole country that our agencies offer, and even blindly; and with transport (rent a car / rent a scooter at every step), - we decided not to overpay for no reason. Yes, and we don’t like hotel holidays - lying like vegetables on the beach ...We would like to climb, ride, see : ) Yes, and it’s good to choose housing, seeing what you pay for, and not to buy a pig in a poke.
Through tourism, they bought only a charter flight (I had to call a few, not all were sold), 320 euros per person. Right at the airport we rented a Renault Clio 1.2 car for 45 euros per day for the whole week.
With housing, however, it was more difficult : ) - I had to wander around the towns for a couple of hours, until we finally found what we wanted near Bar: a very quiet place, something like a holiday village, in a villa on the seashore (20 meters, no more) - 2-storey apartments with 2 balconies, one of which overlooked the sea...Well, of course, shower-toilet, kitchenette, renovated. All this happiness cost us 35 euros a day. Moreover, the owners constantly offered us to drink beer (or rakia) with them in the evenings, they gave us sunbeds for free when we wanted to spend time on the beach, which was rare, because we went somewhere almost every day.
For a week stay in the country, we dashed off 1500 km on our renoha and visited:
1) Bay of Kotor (I was very impressed by the bay near Kotor! ): grandiose fjords;
2) Skadar Lake (the lake itself is so-so, although it is impressive in size. We rented a boat for 30 euros per hour, and we were taken to the island with the monastery of St. Nicholas . . what views from there!!! ),
3) Canyon near Podgorica (sorry, then we only found out that there is an even larger canyon, but it was a long way to go to it, and we found out about it too late),
4) Lake Beogradskoe with its reserve and relict 200-400-year-old trees;
5) of course, the Ostrog Monastery - something absolutely amazing and grandiose - is carved into the rock at a great height;
6) the famous nudist resort Ada Bojana We wanted to take a look at this miracle ...We were touched by a couple of German nudist pensioners who settled next to us (although we moved to the very end of the beach, where there were almost no people! ). There is a really long sandy beach, but when you go beyond the recreation center itself, the beach is terribly dirty, with heaps of garbage ...I didn’t like the sea there: due to the gray sand, it is not as blue as I used to see the so beloved Adriatic. Well, and accordingly, not so salty due to the proximity of the flowing river. Long shallow, with a sandy spit. I don't like that.
The area on the way to Ada Bojana - where the river flows and there are fishermen's houses and restaurants - I liked it, nice. Although the restaurants did not go.
In the north of the country (Kotor, Herceg Novi) - the cities are old, they have a spirit, architecture (very similar to Croatian Dalmatia - Split, Dubrovnik), history ...The towns to the south are new, many are generally only upset, standard modern villas. The closer to Albania you go along the coast, the less developed the territory. The farther inland the continent, the lower the population density, solid mountains, presumably, inconvenient for life. You go - somewhere far away in the mountains you can see 3 houses, after 5 km - another house ...
The Montenegrin mentality is close to ours The same Slavs. "How to make more money and do nothing at the same time. " Terribly disliked the mountains of garbage! Everywhere! There are a lot of dumps on the roadways, on the roadsides, not promoted beaches.
Why is this issue still not resolved in such a tourist country? ..
Do not believe those who say that Montenegro is not focused on Russian tourists! Like, this is not Turkey for you, Russian speech is almost inaudible . . At every step! : ) The beaches are full of Russians! Moreover, signs and billboards are full of signs everywhere: “Buy a house in Montenegro”, “Property in Montenegro”, “For sale”, etc. So they are very oriented towards Russian tourists.
In terms of everyday life: we mostly cooked ourselves, so as not to spend a lot on food. Products were bought at the market and from the supermarket. The prices there are approximately Kyiv. Something the same, something 10-20% more expensive. I really liked all sorts of local goat cheeses and cheeses. We bought local wine - red homemade (5 euros a liter - a fixed price, we didn’t find cheaper - pretty good. We ate fresh figs
We saw beaches in the main resort towns.
We didn't like it - a lot of people, sunbeds, umbrellas, all on each other's heads. We don't like that. Although the Lucice beach near Petrovac is really amazingly beautiful, although crowded. There are no beaches in Kotor. And the sea is not the same there, because the bay. Well, on the last day we decided on extreme sports - we stopped in Budva in the evening. Oh God! Yalta at its worst Crowded, noisy, evening promenade of young ladies in heels and so on. No, such a holiday is clearly not for us!
We are for freedom, for travel, for impressions!