Man's heart gives a leap when first catches sight of the Bay of Kotor and the dark mountains' profile taking shape in the background. This is the place where we realize what "Black Mountains" mean thereabouts. Yes, at long last a place in Europe that not all our neighbours have already visited and about which no guide books or maps are attainable. Those people should travel to Montenegro who are actuated by the fire of Real Discovery. This country heading for Europe, fortunately, is still far from its destination, fortunately. Montenegro exemplifies perfectly a region that bears the characteristics of both the Mediterranean area and the Balkans.

However hard we looked we could not find such a varied micro-cosmos with so many wonders like Montenegro, which is only a two or three hour flight away from Europe. Only one who has already been there can really understand this and because of "having been There" one is swelling with pride since then. Where? Near the bends of the river Rijeka Crnojevica for example. Man is just sitting by the roadside and watching the river hidden by water-plants or the peaceful mountain ranges undisturbed from time beyond all memory and covered with luxuriant, green vegetation. This makes man feel like being in the most beautiful place in the world. Man who visits this country presents himself with a piece from the perfection of the world. This is so simple...

Montenegro means the same to a real discoverer and an adventurer than the Louvre to an art historian or the Himalayas to a mountaineer. Moreover this can even be surpassed: for one day we venture in Albania that is one of the most enclosed countries in the world and is full of secrets. But life is an adventure!

Montenegro is waiting for those who wonder about a nation living cheerfully on the edge of Europe and country-sides where mass tourism has not occurred yet. Either in three or maybe in thirty years time but it is sure that sooner or later Montenegro will become one of the conformed model states of Europe. That time we will have to find another adventure - but until then Montenegro is over there...