Eastern Adriatic Charter Itinerary

Eastern Adriatic Itinerary

Eastern Adriatic Yacht Charter
Few charter routes cross four countries in a week without ever feeling rushed. This one does. It runs south from Dubrovnik through Montenegro and Albania before finishing in Greece, and the coastline changes character at every border while the sea stays the same clear Adriatic blue.





What holds it together is the layering: Venetian walls, Ottoman ruins, Roman theatres and Orthodox islets, all within a few hours of one another. This is a route for people who want their swimming and their history in the same afternoon.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Eastern Adriatic; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Begin where the stone is whitest. Dubrovnik’s old town is walled, pedestrian and best walked early, before the day fills it. Circle the ramparts for the view down onto the rooftops and out to Lokrum, then let the afternoon go slack. Dinner ashore means peka ’ meat and vegetables baked slowly under an iron bell ’ and a table facing the water.
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Day 2

Bay of Kotor, Montenegro

Cross into Montenegro and the coast folds inward, cliffs rising steep from water so deep the chart barely registers a shelf. Off Perast sits Our Lady of the Rocks, an island built by hand over centuries, one stone at a time by returning sailors. Carry on to Morinj for lunch beside a mill stream. The bay is not a fjord, but it does a convincing impression.
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Day 3

Kotor, Montenegro

Kotor is wedged where the bay runs out of room, its medieval town pressed against the mountain behind. Climb the fortifications early ’ fourteen hundred steps, and worth every one for the view back down onto the yacht. Coffee and krempita afterwards in the square. If the day runs long, the old royal capital at Cetinje is a short drive inland.
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Day 4

Budva, Montenegro

Out of the bay and south to Budva, one of the oldest settlements on this coast at two and a half thousand years. Break the passage at the Blue Grotto, where the light enters underwater and comes back up an improbable colour. Budva itself is walled, compact and considerably livelier than Kotor after dark. Montenegrin red on a rooftop, and the season feels well underway.
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Day 5

Bar, Montenegro

Bar is a working port, which makes it the practical stop before the passage south. Use the day inland: Stari Bar is a ruined hill town, half Ottoman and half Venetian, slowly returning to the rock. Lake Skadar, further on, is the largest bird reserve in the Balkans and startlingly quiet. Sail overnight for Albania.
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Day 6

Saranda, Albania

Wake off Saranda with mountains behind the town and the Ionian ahead. The reason to stop is Butrint, twenty minutes inland: a Greek and then Roman city, abandoned to marsh and forest, its theatre and baptistery remarkably intact. Climb to Lekursi Castle for an aperitif at the end of the day, with the whole coast laid out and Corfu across the strait.
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Day 7

Corfu, Greece

The week ends in Corfu, where Venetian, French and British rule each left something behind. Arcaded streets, a cricket ground, two fortresses and a cuisine that is Greek with a distinct Italian accent. Anchor off, go ashore for the old town in the evening, and end the charter over fresh fish and a bottle of something local.
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