Ivanovići Pećina in Bečići, Montenegro

The Ivanovići Pećina is a small, 18-meter cave located east of the town of Budva on the Adriatic Coast of Montenegro. The drive to access the cave is a long one up the hills on narrow roads, then there's a well-marked half a kilometer hike down a small valley and then up to the cave. But it is well worth the trip! The cave is nicely shaped, and the hike offers wonderful views. Indeed, even from the cave entrance you can see the green hills sloping down to the sea, and the coast. Recommended.

The coordinates of the cave itself are roughly N 42.292417 E 18.873830. To reach the cave, turn from up from the coastal main road until you hit the end of the Ive Love Ribara street. Or actually you need to stop a hundred meters before this where there's a closed gate. Find a parking space somewhere... which can be challenging but even further back there's some space that isn't dedicated to the many villas in this area. Having a small car can be beneficial here, the road is very narrow and there is occasional traffic from the other direction.

Once your car is parked, walk to the end of the street by the last house, Villa Old Olive. Just behind the house is a round observation point. There's a path starting from there. However, slightly hidden is the sign for the path to the cave, which is basically immediately down and to the right from the main path. Once you are on this path, you need to choose the righthand side when this path branches at some point. If you keep walking you will soon cross a (typically dry) stream at the bottom of a small valley, and then start climbing up again. In this section the path goes over a rocky section. Somebody could call it climbing but it is easy, I walked both up and down without using my hands at any point. After a while you reach the cave.

The cave is a straight tunnel, couple of meters across and high, and indeed 18 meters long. At the end there's a step change to slightly higher level. I saw a bat at the very end of the cave.

I also 3D scanned the cave. The resulting model can be downloaded here, rotated on your screen here, and the map generated from the model is in high resolution here. A snapshot of the model, the main map parts and a video of the fly-through are below:

More pictures:

A bat at the end of the cave:

Views form the cave:

Path to the cave. Look for this sign 10 meters form the end of the road, or else you are heading to the wrong direction:

My other cave explorations in Montenegro were Vilina Pećina in Dragalj (could not reach it), and Sopot Pećina in Risan. See the articles here and here.

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