The Best of Dubrovnik's Day Trips

Cavtatsome time, you can visit a section of the fjord whilst
Recently resurrected as a visitor destination, foron your holidays in Croatia.
tourists on their holidays to Croatia, the southern-mostWine Tasting
town of Cavtat is a must see destination. This quaintThe Adriatic produces some great wines and currently
fishing village provides the anti-thesis to the bustlingthis secret is known by very few people on their
capital of Dubrovnik and if you're taking your Croatiaholidays to Croatia. If you consider yourself a wine-buff
holidays in the city, then its location across the bayor simply want to taste the local beverage then why
from the capital, makes it easily accessible when on anot take a day trip to the Peljesac Peninsula. This
daytrip. The resort boasts a number of small beachesdestination is the prime place on the island for wine
dotted around the peninsula and is well known for thetasting and the wine produced in the region is both
many seafood restaurants that it boasts. Also worthinexpensive and of excellent quality. With plenty of
checking out are the churches of St. Nicholas and thetasting opportunities this tour promises to be a
monastery church of Our Lady of the Snows. Thewelcome addition to your holidays in Croatia.
journey from Dubrovnik takes just 40 minutes byCrossing the Border
water-taxi and as you approach the city on your300kms away from Dubrovnik lies the border of
return you are rewarded with classic views of theBosnia-Herzegovina, a border which symbolises the
capital.heartache of all the wars following the break-up of
The Black MountainYugoslavia. Many will remember watching in horror as
Just an hour's drive away from Dubrovnik is thethe Mostar Bridge fell down, but with the bridge now
country of Montenegro, with its steep mountains andrepaired the city is slowly rebuilding itself. The border
calm fjords. The country has its own micro-climate andtown may be harrowing but it is worth taking a visit to
with a higher than average rain-fall the result is a lusher,on your Croatia holidays as its setting next to the
almost tropical, destination. Palm trees and magnoliaNeretva River is simply breathtaking. Many of the
are dotted alongside citrus fruits and grapevines tobuildings still show evidence of their war-torn past, but
create a unique flora and fauna which simply must bea number of tourist shops have opened along the main
visited whilst on your Croatia holidays. The Gulf ofstreet to cater for the day-trippers which now visit this
Kotor, which lies just south of Dubrovnik, is four baysregion.
long and although driving the entirety is bound to take