Mirištapebble · 200 m · water ExcellentThe 200-metre pebble cove ten minutes along the coast path from Žanjice, under the Arza fort, with trees over the back of the beach and a fraction of the boats.Mirišta or Njivice?
Two beaches 7.7 km apart, measured the same way. Mirišta and Njivice side by side, on the nine things that decide which one your afternoon should go to.
Mirištapebble · 200 m · water ExcellentThe 200-metre pebble cove ten minutes along the coast path from Žanjice, under the Arza fort, with trees over the back of the beach and a fraction of the boats.
Njivicerock · 200 m · water ExcellentMontenegro’s last beach going west: rock, sand and concrete to swim from below a hamlet of 102 people, with Prevlaka and Croatia 4 km across the water.The short answer
Choose Mirišta for
Nothing here that Njivice does not also offer.
Choose Njivice for
- arriving by road
Measure by measure
| Measure | Mirišta | Njivice |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | pebble | rock |
| Entry | moderate | rocky |
| Depth | deepens quickly | deepens quickly |
| Shade | trees and umbrellas | umbrellas for hire |
| Character | organised and free sections | organised and free sections |
| Length | 200 m | 200 m |
| Latest water | Excellent | Excellent |
| Crowd | quiet | quiet |
| Getting there | on foot | by road |
Bold marks a measure where the two differ.
Each in our own words
Mirišta
Mirišta is Žanjice with the volume turned down: the same open-sea water and pale pebble, a smaller cove about 500 m south along the coast path, a beach bar and a few loungers at €10 instead of two restaurants, and overhanging trees that shade the back of the beach in the afternoon. The Austro-Hungarian fort of Arza stands on the headland beside it and the Blue Cave boats will pick up here. It is the better of the two for a day with a book, and the worse for lunch.
Facilities are basic and unconfirmed beyond a bar and a few loungers, and the path from Žanjice is rough and unlit — do not plan on walking it after dark.
Njivice
Njivice is one long public beach, Kraljičina plaža, below one resort on a side road west of Igalo — rock, patches of sand and concrete platforms rather than pebble, a naturist section partitioned off at one end, and water the open sea flushes rather than the inner bay. It faces north-east, so the view is the whole Herceg Novi riviera under Orjen, and the summer boats to Dobreč, Žanjice, Mamula and the Blue Cave leave from this shore. Regulars are families with small children and older visitors after a quiet stay; there is a year-round bus to Herceg Novi and nothing at all after dark.
There is one resort, one beach bar and no restaurant choice or nightlife — the nearest is Igalo, 4 km away — and the entry is rock and concrete, not sand.