Montenegro (Crna Gora in the slavic languages) voted for independence yesterday. Hopefully the split from Serbia happens peacefully.

I rode through the country on the way home from my Black Sea motorcycle trip in 2004, and it is a complete motorcyclists’ paradise. Empty, curvy roads through breathtakingly beautiful mountains, gorges and passes. And all of it a short ferry trip away from Italy.

Entry to the country from UN-administered Kosovo was interesting. No entry stamps or such, as those might make further travel in Serbia difficult. In any case, Montenegro is definitely a place worth a visit.

More Montenegro pictures can be found in my To the Black Sea gallery