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.Lipci or Ljuta?
Two beaches 8.9 km apart, measured the same way. Lipci and Ljuta side by side, on the nine things that decide which one your afternoon should go to.
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.
Ljutaconcrete platforms · 10–30 mA concrete bathing platform on the Dobrota shore road beside the mouth of a 200-metre river that comes out of the mountain at 7 °C — the coldest swim in the bay.The short answer
Choose Lipci for
- room — it is half again as long
Choose Ljuta for
Nothing here that Lipci does not also offer.
Measure by measure
| Measure | Lipci | Ljuta |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | concrete platforms |
| Entry | rocky | steep |
| Depth | deepens quickly | deep at the edge |
| Shade | none | none |
| Character | wild | wild |
| Length | 20–50 m | 10–30 m |
| Latest water | — | — |
| Crowd | quiet | quiet |
| Getting there | by road | by road |
Bold marks a measure where the two differ.
Each in our own words
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.
Ljuta
Ljuta is a swim for people who like the shock of it: a concrete platform off the shore road, deep water straight away, and, 500 m north, the mouth of the Ljuta, one of the shortest rivers in Montenegro, which runs about 200 m from its karst spring to the sea at around 7 °C and chills the bay around it. Nothing is managed and nothing costs; the Blue Line bus stops at the door, and the old mills at the spring are the reason to stay for lunch.
There is no beach here — only concrete, deep water and cold — and no facilities of any kind at the platform; the length and depth are unmeasured, and there is no water-quality station for Ljuta.