Virpazar Travel Guide

 budapest8 Says:  Although this 'TOWN' is more a place that seemsto revolve completely around tourism, and any'local' is probably a resident of Bar or Podgarica just here to make money out of the touristsfor the season. There are real locals and peopleI met who live and were born in Virpazar,... 

 ELear Says:  A rip off. 58 Euros for a double room without enough space for a chair (let alone a table), no a/c, naked electric wires hanging out of the wall above the bed where the light should have been, a tiny, smelly, damp lavatory cum shower, and a not particularly good breakfast.... 

 JLBG Says:  Grilled eel was served with potatoes and onions. It was excellent 

 budapest8 Says:   Restaurant "odžaklija" Hotel PelikanAfter reading our very own gourmet travel expertmember JLBG, I was curious to see the Restaurant Pelikanhad fared in the last 5 years and with Virpazarwith lots of new money and tourists, how this decades old establishment had withstood... 

 JLBG Says:  Though the advertisement for the restaurant stands on the square, the entrance is behind, along the road that leads to the main road Bar-Podgorica.This is also a hotel and they organize cruises on the lake. 

 budapest8 Says:  There are many hiking trails and this mightbe one of the easiest, from July to August and earlySeptember might be too hot in the middle ofthe day so either set off early morning orafter 2,30pm but it got dark after about 7.30pmin late August so do have a good torch with... 

 JLBG Says:  In the middle of the square, a fountain bears the head of four lions. I suppose that at some time, water flew freely from the mouth of each lion into the basins. That was not the case any more but on one of them, a tap allowed, nevertheless to get water. 

 JLBG Says:  Skadar lake is also the home of eels (Anguilla anguilla), carp (Cyprinus carpio), pike (Esox lucius), perch (Perca fluviatilis) roach (Rutilus rutilus). This photo of the bucket that a fisherman was bringing home shows on top 2 carps, on the right 2 perches and far right and... 

 JLBG Says:  You can also rent a smaller boat. This can be especially interesting during winter as Skadar lake hosts a lot of water birds, some very rare. It has the most important colony in Europe of pigmy Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmeus) and of Dalmatian Pelican (Pelacanus crispus) 

 JLBG Says:  Excursion boats can take you for trips of various length on the lake, possibly including the visit of some island monastiries.This boat has the typical shape of Skadar lake's boats, very long and narrow.In the foreground, a shaded square is the center of the city. 

 JLBG Says:  Most part of the city is on the other side of the stone bridge built over the river that drains the Crmnicko Polje, a small plain densely cultivated, west to the city. I have not found when the bridge was built. It does not seem to be Roman but looks several centuries old. 

 JLBG Says:  Virpazar is an important traffic junction since the highway and the railway from the seaside to Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro run there on a long bridge, low on the water. You can see it in the background if you enlarge the picture. The railway was built in 1909 by an...