Kotor
I took a night bus from ohrid to Montenegro, crossing the Albania boarder. Technically speaking I went to Albania too -.-
The bus ride again was full of uncertainties. I had no idea where is the Macedonia-Albania boarder and when is Albania-Montenegro boarder. So, night ride without proper sleep. Worst thing, I didn't grey the stamp when I entered Montenegro. And I realized it when I was already in the country. I did ask other passengers but they said it's fine. Well, this lead to fxxking unpleasant experience and will talk about it later.
So the day I reached kotor was a rainy day. It's misty and quite cold. Well, Montenegro has mountains, cliff and sea, the best landscape. Few famous beaches and cliffs like Budva, didn't really catch my interest because it looks too commercialized.
Then it comes to the main part, kotor.
Unlike its name, kotor is actually a pretty clean town. A small town in the centre along the Montenegro west coast. The unique part of this place is the protected bay, where the sea water is calm all the time.
I booked a 13 bed dorm and fortunately I was the only guess the first night. Well, unlucky for the owner. Was so tired that I needed a good nap so ended up visiting the old town at evening. It took less than an hour to visit the old town and then I went back to hostel, at Ljuta.
I prefer Ljuta much more than kotor centre since I get quieter and clear beach (beach without sand, mainly pebble). There was a freaking Harvey storm that night, like ;/&@:?'#^|¥<¥{•
The next day entire area was in mess! Owner shook his head -.-
Water supply was cut off, so did the electricity. Luckily it was a sunny day so I went to the castle.
Back to the journey from kotor to Ljuta, the public bus sucks! It's actually very cheap. 70 cent euro but you need to know the timing (hourly) and the bus stop. Else'll end up like me, spent an hour walking. Had bad experience on that road!
Went up to the castle the next day. Not much of historical stuff to see, rather get some awesome view of the town. And gotta pay 3€ to go up.
Took me around 2 hours up and down including taking photo and sitting by the ledge to enjoy the view.
Then I took the bus back and this time round, I overshot my hostel so gotta take a 45 mins walk backward! But the view was nice, so it sorts of compensate the walking.
Bought the ticket to Trebinje for the next day and since everything was in place, I just lazing in the hostel, continue my Yugoslavia documentary and skype with family.
It's a very chillax place and the view is really awesome! It uses euro and not very expensive, around 3€ for a hamburger. However, coming up form Macedonia, I wasn't used to 3€ for fast food since I get a full meal for that price in Macedonia. So I cooked in my hostel at Ljuta.
But overall 2 full days is more than enough though I stayed for 3 days.
And the bus to Trebinje was sucks as well because I chose the wrong timing, 730pm when everyone is using the same road! The ticket was 6€, cheap but it took me 4hours to reach. Here come the "planted" problem. Remember the Montenegro entry stamp that I lacked of, the immigration here questioned me. So scary please. And I don't think they've seen many Malaysian before, probably only know malaysia because of the flight incidents. Bla bla bla and then miraculously the officer gave me two stamps in one time, entry and exit.
Puhhhhhh
Reached Trebinje, at 11:30pm!
No phone to call, no wifi, only print screen the airbnb map. Airbnb, not hostel, so nobody knows whereabout. Thankfully the helpful part time waitress speaks god English, help me to get a taxi. And the. I was on myself with the taxi driver who speaks zero English!
He talked to some other guy and then asked me to get into the car. So I was looking at the print screen satellite map and tried to see the corner, direction. Turns out that the pace is really very rural. In Malaysia, it's like some kampung! Can't believe I reached there safely. Just about 15 mins upon arriving, it started to rain so heavily and storm and thunder again, as if I brought them from kotor.
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