Ada Bojanafine sand · 3 km · water ExcellentA triangular island of fine sand at the mouth of the Bojana, about 3 km of open beach with a signposted naturist section, kite schools and fish restaurants on stilts over the river.Ada Bojana or Velika plaža?
Two beaches 7.0 km apart, measured the same way. Ada Bojana and Velika plaža side by side, on the nine things that decide which one your afternoon should go to.
Ada Bojanafine sand · 3 km · water ExcellentA triangular island of fine sand at the mouth of the Bojana, about 3 km of open beach with a signposted naturist section, kite schools and fish restaurants on stilts over the river.
Velika plažafine sand · 12–13 km · water ExcellentTwelve to thirteen kilometres of fine dark sand from Port Milena to the Bojana mouth, shallow for a long way out and swept by a thermal wind every summer afternoon.The short answer
Choose Ada Bojana for
- quiet
Choose Velika plaža for
- room — it is half again as long
Measure by measure
| Measure | Ada Bojana | Velika plaža |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | fine sand | fine sand |
| Entry | gentle | gentle |
| Depth | shallow far out | shallow far out |
| Shade | umbrellas for hire | umbrellas for hire |
| Character | organised and free sections | organised and free sections |
| Length | 3 km | 12–13 km |
| Latest water | Excellent | Excellent |
| Crowd | quiet | busy in season |
| Getting there | by road | by road |
Bold marks a measure where the two differ.
Each in our own words
Ada Bojana
Ada Bojana is three coasts in one: the Adriatic side with waves and a wide, gently shelving sandy beach; the river arms, calm and warm, lined with wooden restaurants on piles; and a resort that has been naturist since 1973. Textile bathers have their own well-marked stretch. Come for the kites on an afternoon thermal, the fish pulled from the river that morning, and the slowest evenings on the Montenegrin coast.
The only way in is a single-lane bridge and the naturist and textile zones are separated by signs, not fences; no guide publishes toilets, lifeguards or water results for the island, and the mouth of the river is not a place to swim.
Velika plaža
Velika plaža is not a beach you visit so much as a coast you choose a kilometre of. The named sections — Copacabana, Miami, Safari and their neighbours — have loungers, bars, fish restaurants and kite schools; the sand between them has nothing at all, and that is the point. Wade out waist-deep for a hundred metres in the morning, then give the afternoon to the maestral and the kites. It is the one beach in Montenegro that never fills.
The same wind that makes it a kite beach makes afternoon swimming a chore, and outside the sections there is no shade, no water and nobody watching; do not expect Blue Flag sectors or published water results here.