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.Ljuta or Stoliv?
Two beaches 4.5 km apart, measured the same way. Ljuta and Stoliv side by side, on the nine things that decide which one your afternoon should go to.
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.
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 Ljuta for
Nothing here that Stoliv does not also offer.
Choose Stoliv for
- room — it is half again as long
Measure by measure
| Measure | Ljuta | Stoliv |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | concrete platforms | concrete platforms |
| Entry | steep | steep |
| Depth | deep at the edge | deep at the edge |
| Shade | none | none |
| Character | wild | wild |
| Length | 10–30 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
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.
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.