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 Orahovac?
Two beaches 2.0 km apart, measured the same way. Bajova Kula and Orahovac 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.
Orahovacpebble · 150 m · water ExcellentFour pebble coves between stone jetties, the coldest and freshest sea in the bay — 24 parts per thousand of salt in late May 2026 — and Excellent at every official sampling.The short answer
Choose Bajova Kula for
- loungers, food and somewhere to change
Choose Orahovac for
- nothing built on it
Measure by measure
| Measure | Bajova Kula | Orahovac |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | pebble |
| Entry | moderate | moderate |
| Depth | deepens quickly | deepens quickly |
| Shade | natural | natural |
| Character | organised | wild |
| Length | 118 m | 150 m |
| Latest water | Excellent | 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.
Orahovac
Orahovac has no beach in the resort sense: the municipal plan says so plainly, and what it has instead is a string of small pebble coves between the old stone jetties, concrete quays to swim from, and water that the springs keep colder and fresher than anywhere else in the bay. The Morsko Dobro station here returned Excellent at all eight samplings in 2026. Nothing is managed and nothing costs; a couple of bars open in season, the oyster farm sells from the shore road, and the Kotor bus stops at the door.
Parking is private or customers-only and the water is genuinely cold near the springs; the coves are small, and in July and August a dozen swimmers fill one.