Kotor at the end of it’s bay is backed by the Black Mountains (hence the name).
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- traveling up the fjord
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- small island
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- tows along the way
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- more sights along with way
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- close up of the route up as we are about to dock
Sailing up the fjord I could see the fortress up the hill overlooking the town. In retrospect, deciding that climbing the mountain might not have been one of my smarter ideas especially given an afternoon arrival. To make it clear, sundown is about 1630 with full dark by an hour later. This doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for exploring areas other than stores and restaurants.
perched on the edge and end of the fjord
I headed straight toward the fortress, transversing narrow streets –
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- note the time
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- through the unsigned streets
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- winding around
and found the entry to the fortress area and started up the mountain
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- headed through the first gate
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- looking back at the start
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- weapons slits
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- down at the town
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- remnant of various portions
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- small shrines along the way
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- wall portion
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- another entry to nowhere
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- portions of wall
from the top
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- part of fort at top
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- the way up
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- looking back down the path
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- portion of one of the fortresses
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- ship in the distance
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- next mountain over
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- looking down the back toward a different valleu
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- flag at the top
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- see, I actually was there
It was close to 1630 when I headed back down and into the old city-
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- steps down
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- moat area
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- outside the old city
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- pedestrian bridge in
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- through the old wall
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- guarding the gate
I took the tender back to the ship. As we were starting to sail out –
looking up the mountain
Great photos! Although I’m a bit sad you didn’t get any of the city at night (except for the one from far away), that’s when it looks the most beautiful, or at least I think so 🙂
Unfortunately, my ship sailed before dark. But I imagine that the city would be glorious lighted at night, especially from the water