The drive was supposed to take about 7 hours, but we ended up being on the road for a little over 9 hours. Left at 8:45 am and arrived at 6 pm. On the way, we stopped to cool off. Dottie loved it. We also a guy riding his bike with his cows, beautiful scenery and I had a friend on my leg that wouldn’t leave me alone. 🦗
The security guards let us go visit for about 5 minutes. You aren’t allowed to go beyond a gate near the entrance, but it really is beautiful. The sunset was insane.
Ostrog Monastery is built in a cliff 900 meters above Zeta Valley. It attracts about a million visitors every year. The line to get in was over two hours long so we didn’t wait.
Montenegro is named after Black Mountain and 60% of the land is over 1000m high.
We went on a boat tour with a guide named Dragon. He was great. He took us to Our Lady of the Rocks. The island was formed by people stopping to drop rocks in the lake as an offering to the Virgin Mary. Now various religious buildings are built there. The tradition of dropping rocks is called Fašinada and continues today every July 22nd. If you look at the flooring as you walk along, you can see when a different area was added. We also went to the Blue Cave and swam around for bit. It is beautiful but there were a ton of tour boats in the cave so it was more fun to swim outside of the cave and look up at the cliffs. The submarine tunnels were the coolest part of the tour. The Yugoslav army dug tunnels to house u-boats and submarines. The entrance was camouflaged.
UK to France to Germany to Austria to Hungary to Serbia to Bulgaria to Macedonia to Albania to Montenegro to Bosnia to Croatia. We are now in Italy!!!! Took a 7 hour ferry yesterday that was wild. People couldn’t get to their cars and we were stuck in a mass of humanity. We made it out. I oddly love experiences like that. All these different cultures coming together. I love to watch how people respond.
While we were in Ksamil, Albania, we were planning a day trip to the island of Corfu in Greece. Unfortunately, there were more than a few fires blazing in the island. People had to be evacuated and we could see planes dropping water from where we were staying. The high temperatures and dryness made it hard to control/stop. The sunset was ominous as the sun went down behind the clouds of smoke. 😔
A few friends who know me well sent me this!!! 🤣
The Blue Eye is a water spring and the source of the Bistricë River. It is so blue! When you stand on the platform and look down on it- it’s magnificent. There are signs that say you can’t enter the water, but a lot of people do it anyways until a guy comes over with a whistle and makes you get out. 😆 The area is 50-meters deep and the water is as clear as pool water. The Blue Eye is the starting point of a river that travels all the way to the Ionian Sea.
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