Dubrovnik holiday part 4: Lokrum island
The other thing we did while on holiday in Dubrovnik was get the ferry to Lokrum Island, an island in Dubrovnik bay. It’s just a ten minute ferry ride and the ferry from the old town harbour goes every half hour during the day. There are some other ferries to Islands further away, but public ferries don’t go very often and private tours are £££ plus you have a tour guide and other people there the whole time, which isn’t our cup of tea.
The island is a forest nature reserve, and only has the one harbour and you can’t stay overnight. All the trees provide shade so it’s a bit cooler, so it’s a great place to go for a walk.
Everything is arranged so you can see all the sights in one big loop. There are three swimming places, an old monastery with some formal gardens (and a small Game of Thrones exhibition and a repro iron throne which I am unbothered about) and a fort at the top of the hill with great views over Dubrovnik. There’s a few different cafes by the harbour and by one of the beaches/swimming places.
It’s not a massively long walk, but if you go swimming and have food you can easily stay there for a whole day. I think we got the boat out at 9.30/10 and back at 4.
And lots and lots of peacocks! They had peachicks as well, so cute.
All the photos below
The harbour where the ferry lands
one of the beach areas
A fully grown peacock in full display
A peahen and a peachick
The boys with a peacock
a young peacock on the beach
lunch time
Monastry courtyard arches
the monastry
Forest walk up the hill
The last bit to the fort on top of the holls was paved, and steep, and extremely hot!
View of Dubrovnik bay from the fort
and the view of the Old Town from within the fort
the same view slightly further down
another swimming place on the city side of the island
queuing for the ferry back
and on the ferry as we’re leaving. Bye Lokrum!
