Insider's Guide to Montenegro
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Montenegro takes a moment to place on a map, but it refuses to leave your mind once you've been. It is, by European standards, tiny—you can drive its length in under three hours—yet it compresses an unlikely range of terrain into that small frame: an Adriatic coastline of medieval walled towns and yacht-filled bays, a karst interior that drops into deep river canyons, and a mountainous north where the winters are long and the villages have been largely left to their own devices.
The country only formally became independent in 2006, and there's still something unfinished about it, in the best sense. Montenegro is a place that hasn't yet been remodeled for tourism, instead its wild beauty, historical sites, and shorelines are the reason many visitors are drawn here.