Balkans 2019 - Tuesday, June 4 - Tirana, Albania, to Kotor, Montenegro, and Dubrovnik, Croatia


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IMG_8932 - Kotor and the surrounding mountains
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IMG_8935 - The entrance to the inner Bay of Kotor with St George's monastery on the left and the man-made Our Lady of the Rocks.
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IMG_8936 - Our Lady of the Rocks was built by sailors adding rocks to an islet where they found an icon of the Madonna and Child in 1452.
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IMG_8940 - The Bay of Kotor is a "ria" formed by rising sea levels flooding an ancient river valley, not a fjord carved by glaciers.
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IMG_8949 - Baošići on west coast of the Bay of Kotor, en route to the Adriatic Sea and Dubrovnik
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IMG_8951 - A small road tunnel at Herceg Novi. Nearby are sea-cave-tunnels from WWII, for hiding Yugoslavian submarines.
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IMG_8952 - The nearby, protectively narrow exit for those WWII submarines, from the Bay of Kotor to the Adriatic Sea
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IMG_8953 - Tourism and European Union membership demand modern highways. Near here is the crossing into Croatia.
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IMG_8964 - Old Town Dubrovnik, Croatia, the peninsula with the red roofs, from the "high"-way coming in from the south
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IMG_8967 - Old Town Dubrovnik is on the left. Our hotel was on this side of the inlet far ahead, to the right of the conical hill.

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