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After seeing the Stari Bar ruins five kilometres uphill from town, you may want to set your sights further afield. Handily, Bar is an excellent launchpad for visiting Lake Skadar National Park; Virpazar (half an hour’s drive) is a village at the edge of the national park. From there, boats glide out to visit Kom Monastery while passengers watch for wildlife like storks and herons. For more adventurous day trips, join a canyoning tour from Bar. If that seems a little too daring, there’s always the option to head north towards Sveti Stefan (35 minutes), where there are yet more Adriatic beaches as well as a fortified island with 15th-century stone buildings. Connected to the mainland by a tidal causeway, it overlooks a gorgeous pink-sand beach… Back in Bar, check out the Old Olive Tree (10 minutes), believed to be older than 2,000 years (despite one side being burnt by a few card players who accidentally threw a lit match onto the trunk, according to folklore).