The Bay of Kotor from the water: what each thing is
The Boka Kotorska is an arm of the sea that winds between mountains all the way to Kotor, with narrows, Venetian towns and two tiny islets. By boat you see what the road does not show: the islets up close, Mamula, the Blue Cave and the tunnels the Yugoslav navy dug into the rock. This is the list.
Our Lady of the Rocks
Man-made islet off Perast, with a church raised by the town’s sailors. The only one of the two islets you can visit: €5 entrance, never included in the trips. How to go.
St George’s (Sveti Đorđe)
The natural islet next door, with a Benedictine monastery among cypresses. The boats circle it, but there is no landing: it is the photo, not the visit.
Perast
A one-street Venetian town on the water, 16 churches and sea captains’ palaces. The €25 trip gives it half an hour; the Dubrovnik trip, lunchtime.
Blue Cave (Plava špilja)
On the Luštica peninsula, at the mouth of the bay. Free to enter; what you pay for is the boat. A 20-minute swim, if the sea lets you in. The trip.
Mamula (Lastavica island)
A round islet with an Austro-Hungarian fortress that served as a prison. The trips circle it; no landing.
Submarine tunnel
Galleries dug into the rock of the bay as a naval hideout in the Second World War. You enter by boat; only the private boat includes it in the route.
The Verige ferry (Kamenari–Lepetane)
Not a trip but a car ferry at the narrowest point of the bay, which saves driving the whole way round the coast. The Dubrovnik trip uses it with the coach on board, and if you come by car from Herceg Novi or Croatia you will meet it on your way. We have not verified price or frequency: you pay at the ramp.