Fail. I drove a long way to see this cave, but ... the coordinates are a bit uncertain and I can't find a safe way to climb the cliff on top of which the cave likely is at. The forest is also almost impassable. And I can't find a path that would take me through.
Perhaps if I had time I could go up on the road and see if I can follow the contour lines or find a path that's clearly used by others. But I don't have enough time to explore. Maybe time to abandon this attempt and try something else with the time that I have today.
Fortunately, there was a wonderful cave that I saw on the way here, also something I had seen in the map earlier. Accessing that cave was a success, reported separately here. I also was able to visit yet another but smaller cave, reported here.
I wanted to copy a photo I found online of the Vilina Pećina cave in this article, but can't do so for copyright reasons. But you can access it through this link. And here's another photo. Note that there's a much more famous cave with the same name in Bosnia and Herzegovina, google searches often take you there. There's even another cave in Montenegro with the same name, popular them I guess...
The coordinates for the cave on Grottocenter are N 42.5541 E 18.6588. In OpenStreetMap the coordinates are N 42.555054 E 18.658725. I was unable to access either one, but the latter one seems more believable.
The cave is listed (I think, given the name similarities) in the list of Montenegro's most significant caves, Review of the Most Significant Caves in Montenegro by by Mirela Djurović and Predrag Djurović, ACTA Carsologica 50/1, 49-65, 2021.
More photos of the location:
And Montenegro, on the way to the cave:
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