
Žanjica lies on the outer, seaward flank of Luštica, a long curve of white pebble backed by an olive grove of many hundreds of trees, some of them centuries old. The bay faces the open Adriatic across the mouth of Boka, so the water is brighter and cooler than in the inner bay, and the beach fills and empties with the boats: taxi craft and excursion vessels arrive through the morning from Herceg Novi and the Kumbor shore, then thin out by early evening, leaving the cove to whoever is staying.
This corner of the peninsula is thick with old defences. Mamula, the circular fortress island offshore, and Arza, the battery on the headland, were built to close the entrance to the bay, and the fishing village of Rose out on the point has a small boat link and a row of waterfront konobas. Inland, Velji Kamen and the hamlets around it are stone houses, rainwater cisterns and olive terraces, with paths through the macchia that smell of sage and immortelle in early summer. Season counts for a lot here: July and August are busy and boat-fed, while spring and September give you the same water and the same beaches with almost nobody on them.
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