Ostrog Orthodox Monastery

Peaceful place away from the city. Must visit! It took 1 hour from Podgorica with very narrow roads as you come closer to the Monastery. Facilities: You have water, snack vending machine, wc and a shop just beside the parking. You can also park away and hike up to the Monastery as there are steps from the lower Monastery parking.

The monastery is easily accessible by car and has plenty of parking spaces. This is my second road trip through Montenegro and I'm looking forward to the new discoveries. Visiting the monastery is a must for anyone on vacation in Montenegro. It is impressive how it was built into the rock face. a magical, holy, admirable monastery. Definitely top for me.

It is beautiful and amazing from the outside. Also - stunning view! Getting there is quite the challenge, especially if you are with a big car, I honestly don't know how all the buses there manage to get there as the road is so tight in places. Unfortunately, we did not have enough time to wait in line for going inside as there were a lot of people and it was getting dark with rainy clouds so I didn't want to risk the way back but if I have the opportunity, I would try to come again.

We visited at around 11 on Tuesday. Not much of a traffic. Beautiful scenic drive with lots of turn but good road easily reachable. Historic place well preserved and renovated!

We visited Ostrag Monastery in a raining day from Podgorica by train(3€). Then hiked a share taxi (15€) from Ostrag station. The roads was narrow and quite dangerous from city driver point of view. The building and the valley view are spectacular. It's worthy to visit no matter for religious or travel. No suprise there were still some visitors in such raining day, especially the road is different to drive.

The view is beautiful and you can see all the mountains at the top. We waited almost an hour to get in the church and it was extremely hot but it was pretty. Not recommending to come on a very hot day or at noon. It is free.

The monastery is beautiful from the outside, but the road to it leads along a winding, slippery stone staircase about 900 meters long. It was hard for me to assess the interior of this place because I came across some kind of holiday or evening prayers. The entire courtyard resembled a gypsy camp and the queue to get inside was over 150 meters long. As for me, it was a waste of time, although I appreciate the effort and determination of the faithful.

A monastery for pilgrims. This is not a monastery for everyone. It is not a visiting place as you visit a regular monastery or a museum, no way. Here, there are certain rituals with a lot of importance for those who strongly believe in God. The road to the monastery it is very challenging, with sharp curves and steep climb. Along the road there are 2 parking place. First is at about 500 metres from monastery. From that parking place you can climb on a path, very steep, in a way redoing the calvary - in a soft meaning. The road is blocked with a bariere and there is a person who gives way to the vehicles to climb further to the monastery. Later we understood why. Also, from the first parking place there are taxis and for 5 EUR they climb you to the monastery. There is a parking place in front of the monastery but is very narrow and there are limited parking place. Then we understood why there is a bariere down the road at the first parking place. The monastery is built in mountain and I think that in some places the walls of the monastery are carved directly from the rock. In the court of the monastery there is a small shop and there are carpets all over the place. The pilgrims are spending days and nights at the monastery, outside under the clear sky in order to attend all the holy services they are done by priests at the monastery. There is a cave with holy relicts of a saint but there is always a queue to visit them. The path to the cave is very narrow and the cave is very small so there are 2 or 3 monks organising the visitors. There is also a souvenirs shop, a big one, which is always packed of people. The monastery it is not something special if you want to visit but if you are a profound spiritually person you must pay a visit.