Bajova Kulapebble · 118 m · water ExcellentAn organised 118-metre shingle beach at Dražin Vrt on the Kotor–Risan road, named for Bajo Pivljanin’s tower above it, with a stone swimming platform and the Boka wall across the water.Bajova Kula or Lipci?
Two beaches 6.4 km apart, measured the same way. Bajova Kula and Lipci side by side, on the nine things that decide which one your afternoon should go to.
Bajova Kulapebble · 118 m · water ExcellentAn organised 118-metre shingle beach at Dražin Vrt on the Kotor–Risan road, named for Bajo Pivljanin’s tower above it, with a stone swimming platform and the Boka wall across the water.
Lipcipebble · 20–50 mA strip of pebbles and flat rocks below the prehistoric deer of Lipci, reached by a narrow concrete path, with clear water deep enough to dive into and nothing else at all.The short answer
Choose Bajova Kula for
- shade that is not rented
- room — it is half again as long
- loungers, food and somewhere to change
Choose Lipci for
- nothing built on it
Measure by measure
| Measure | Bajova Kula | Lipci |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | pebble |
| Entry | moderate | rocky |
| Depth | deepens quickly | deepens quickly |
| Shade | natural | none |
| Character | organised | wild |
| Length | 118 m | 20–50 m |
| Latest water | Excellent | — |
| Crowd | quiet | quiet |
| Getting there | by road | by road |
Bold marks a measure where the two differ.
Each in our own words
Bajova Kula
Bajova Kula is a shingle beach below the shore road between Orahovac and Perast, at Dražin Vrt beside the 17th-century tower that gives it its name. The board at the entrance calls it an organised public beach of 118 metres with a named manager, and it looks it: fine grey-blue pebbles, a cut-stone swimming platform with deep water straight off it, a buoyed swimming area, and behind the shore a landscaped timber deck with olive trees and festoon lighting. The seed list places it under Kotor’s walls; the map, the monument register and the board all put it here, 11 km up the coast.
Small, and hemmed in. 118 metres of shingle with the M-1 immediately behind it and no pavement on this stretch, and the water is deep almost at once — this is a swimming beach, not a paddling one. The individual facilities are still unverified: the board’s site map marks them but is not legible in our photograph, so we have not claimed showers, cabins or a lifeguard either way.
Lipci
This is the "hidden beach" of the Lipci guide: no name, no map symbol, a few metres of pebbles and flat rock below the rock-art site, and water the guide calls crystal-clear and deep enough to dive into from the rocks. The village itself has no hotel, no konoba and no shop, so the beach is exactly as empty as that sounds. Combine it with the drawings above — the reason most people stop at Lipci — and with Morinj, 1.7 km on, for lunch.
There are no facilities whatever, the scramble down is rough, and we could not measure or map the beach itself — the coordinates are the village, and the length is a description, not a figure.