Rental House

Rental House is a furnished cottage in Žabljak, in Montenegro's northern mountain region, set up for two guests in one bedroom with one bed and one private bathroom. It suits couples or a pair of friends who want a simple, warm base in the Durmitor highlands rather than a hotel room. The house is fully furnished and includes a kitchen, a living room with a fireplace, a separate toilet in addition to the bathroom, and a garage for one car. Heating is a real strength here: a wood stove works alongside electric heating, which matters through the long, cold Žabljak winters. The town centre, the lake, and a number of ski slopes and hiking trails all lie a few kilometres away, so the property works equally well for a winter ski trip or a summer walking holiday. Rates start from 47 EUR per night.

About the area

Beyond the last houses of Žabljak the plateau opens into hay meadows, scattered barns and stands of spruce, and that is the setting here — minutes from town, with the mountain immediately at hand. In summer the fields are still cut by hand in places and the air smells of drying grass; in winter the same ground carries a metre or more of snow and a wood stove earns its keep. The trails, both the walking routes and the ski slopes, begin a couple of kilometres away, close enough to reach quickly and far enough that the evenings stay quiet.

The obvious first outing is Crno jezero, with its shore path under the peaks, but the plateau rewards slower exploration: the Ledena pećina ice cave, the Sedlo road with its high cirques, the viewpoints over the Tara canyon and the bridge at Đurđevića Tara half an hour north. Shopping is done in town, where a handful of supermarkets and bakeries cover everything a self-catering stay needs. With no coastal glow anywhere nearby, clear nights on the plateau are genuinely dark, and the long evenings indoors around a fire are much of what brings people back.