Our bus ride through the mountains led us straight to the historic town of Kotor (or Cattaro, as it’s also called). With a population around 12,500, this old Mediterranean port is famously protected by formidable Venetian-built walls.
The Vrmac Tunnel, connecting Kotor and Tivat, is 1.6 km long. It passes under Mount Vrmac and is a shortcut for travel between Kotor and Tivat.
The drive is about 25min depending on traffic.
We got there and it just started pouring rain…
It was Sunny and beautiful when we left the apartment in the morning. We didn’t let that stop us we popped into the first restaurant to sit and have some breakfast while the rain passed.
Kotor old town and castle, the mountains tower over this town with a small sliver of land separating the mountain from the bay.
We found a taxi to take us to the Kotor Gondola directly from Tivat, this was 15 euros. If we took the bus it would have been 8 euros to Kotor, then we would have had to pay another 20 euros each to take the shuttle from Kotor to the gondola so it saved us some money doing it that way.
The gondola and the coaster cost 50 euros for both of us, which was not bad considering the views.
The gondola takes 11 minutes, covering a distance of 3,900 meters and goes 1,316 meters above sea level.
We had a cold beer and lunch at the top taking pictures from the view point patio.
After our beer we road the Kotor Mountain coaster. In some parts it was very slow, people stop the carts to take pictures and they don’t space the cars out that well so you have to stop or you will smash right into them.
What an amazing view from up there, you could see all of Tivat and Kotor.
We took the gondola back down and got a taxi back to the beach the first taxi wanted 25 euro to take us back to town which is ridiculous, luckily we had the number of a driver that came picked us up for 15eu we then headed to a restaurant called Babi for dinner.
