The incredible winding mountain road, Kotor Serpentine.Credit: iStock
Of course, I’m glad I’m not driving, but being in a coach adds to my sense of fear. We’re all used to cars, but coaches are something else. They appear to swing out much further than anticipated. I’m sitting up front and feel as if we’re about to hit the cliffside, or plummet into the void.
Our coach can barely get around the hairpin bends. It’s scarier than riding a roller coaster, since roller coasters are surely more scrutinised and safety checked than this road, with its retaining walls that are crumbling and gapped. Old bridges are so narrow we creep across them at a snail’s pace.
The Serpentine was engineered by the Austrians in 1897, when this region was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The journey between Kotor and Cetinje is 36 kilometres, but the most dramatic part is the 8.3-kilometre middle section of 16 hairpin bends.
One of its frightful enjoyments is seeing the terror of white-knuckled downhill drivers who come face to face with your coach around bends and are obliged to reverse up this narrow cliff-side road to slightly wider passing points.
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