We have lunch at Bar11, about 5 minutes from Tivat Airport, at 12:30 pm. If you're flying in that morning, we'll pick you up from Tivat Airport; if you're staying in the Tivat/Kotor area the night before the tour, the taxi cost will be about €10-15 to reach the restaurant. After lunch and general orientation, we'll take a quick ride to the garage to get our motorcycles, have a briefing on their operation, and discuss tips to stay safe on tour.

Any luggage you want to store can be safely left where we pick up the motorcycles. There's a locked box for any valuables you need to store. You must take your passport on the tour to check in to the Monte Rosa Hotel. We'll head off around the Lustica Peninsula and, for the next few hours, ride a spaghetti-like route around the coast between Kotor, Tivat, and Budva before visiting some of the Austro-Hungarian fortresses and Lovcen National Park, where the Monte Rosa Hotel is located, arriving there around 6 pm.

Here is the approximate route.

After breakfast, we leave the hotel at 8:30 am and immediately drop down from 1,250 meters above sea level to sea level and to "Rijeka Crnojevica," a primordial, lily-covered river that feeds into Skadar Lake. We'll ride parallel to the river into Virpazar and then skirt Skadar Lake down to the nearby Albanian border, where we'll have lunch. The morning's road conditions are generally good: twisty, undulating asphalt, with the road getting more broken as we get farther south, with loose gravel being a common occurrence.

Expect no straight sections of more than 50 meters for more than 100 km. After lunch, we'll head for the mountains that straddle Skadar Lake and the Adriatic Coast to test our bikes with some daunting and beautiful off-road riding. Towards evening, we'll climb back into Lovcen National Park to the hotel and eat dinner.

Here is an approximate route

After breakfast, we'll depart the hotel at 8:30 am and head into central Montenegro. We will thread through many tiny villages alternating through the karst landscape and forests as we head northeast towards the Bosnian border. We'll stop for lunch at a traditional konoba before crossing into Bosnia, heading for Trebinje, and back towards Montenegro. We'll finish the day riding around the Bay of Kotor and back to our starting point. After the ride, we'll head out for dinner to celebrate the kilometers under our belts.

Maps are only approximate and don't include off-road portions of the day's riding.