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 Stoliv?
Two beaches 5.1 km apart, measured the same way. Lipci and Stoliv 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.
Stolivconcrete platforms · 100 m · water ExcellentNo beach at all — concrete platforms and pontoons on the captains’ waterfront of Donji Stoliv, facing Perast across flat water, with the chestnut woods of the upper village behind.The short answer
Choose Lipci for
Nothing here that Stoliv does not also offer.
Choose Stoliv for
- room — it is half again as long
Measure by measure
| Measure | Lipci | Stoliv |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | concrete platforms |
| Entry | rocky | steep |
| Depth | deepens quickly | deep at the edge |
| Shade | none | none |
| Character | wild | wild |
| Length | 20–50 m | 100 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
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.
Stoliv
Stoliv is honest about what it has: the village guide says it "does not have any beaches itself so all sunbathing has to be done on the pontoons", and that is the swim — off concrete, into deep, calm bay water, with the church of the Name of Mary at your back and Perast and its islets straight across the strait. It is the end of the boka-shore-road walk from Kotor and the quietest swimming stop on the Vrmac shore. Bring everything; the waterfront sells nothing.
There is nothing here for a family beach day — no shore to paddle from, no shade, no facilities — and the pontoons you swim from are also where the boats tie up.