No matter if you enter Boka by land or by sea - you will experience the same - Boka will fascinate you and you will feel the same when you leave it. It looks like the mountains have cracked and let the sea in. This is the southernmost fjord in Europe. The high mountains bend over the thin coastline thus protecting it from the severe climate from the north. That is why Boka is an oasis of Mediterranean vegetation: agave, palm, mimosa, oleander, kiwi, pomegranate, medicinal herbs... When its peaks are covered with snow, the roses bloom at the foothill. The bay is naturally divided into four smaller parts - Herceg Novi bay, Risan bay, Kotor bay and Tivat bay. As pearls, the small towns, as treasuries of history, art and beauty, are strung on its coastline. Kotor is the old coastal and cultural center. For centuries, it has been a crossroads of commercial roads under strong influence of Venice. It is protected by mountains with a strong defense structure built during the time of Byzantine Empire.

Kotor, a medieval town with narrow cobbled streets and wide defensive walls that you enter like a secret garden through a small stone arch. The town’s terracotta-tiled roofs are overlooked by the San Giovanni fort and chapel, which have origins in the 9th century. To reach them is a heart-pounding 90-minute walk up steps that wend between cypress trees on the steep slope above the city. Kotor has a fruit and vegetable market on the quay, where jewellery is sold at night, lively nightlife that attracts hoards of glamorously-dressed young Montenegrins, and restaurants that spill onto cobbled squares and bougainvillea-draped terraces.

Dobrota is a small town in which numerous palaces of former sailors and ship owners are still preserved. Perast is a homeland of many world-known sailors and a town whose destiny has always been related to the sea. By its lifestyle, it resembled Venice with which it had very lively trade and cultural links. There are a lot of remains of the old aristocratic palaces that now bear witness to the ancient splendor and richness. In one of them, the Bujevic’s palace, the Town Museum is located. There is a very interesting historical story saying that the Russian soldiers used to come in Perast to learn sailing skills and that it was known as a cradle of the Russian fleet.