Montenegro travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Montenegro, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Montenegro: Kotor, Budva, Durmitor, Ulcinj.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Hepatitis A
- Tetanus up to date
- Tick-borne encephalitis for hiking in Durmitor
Emergency number
124 for an ambulance, 112 for everything
Care for visitors
Good but costly
Adequate on the coast, thin inland. Kotor and Podgorica have hospitals; anything serious is usually referred to Belgrade or flown out. Private clinics in Budva and Tivat are used to treating visitors and take cash or insurance.
Tap water is safe in the towns. Ticks in the northern mountains. The most common injury is a fall on the Kotor walls or a road accident on the serpentines, and the mountain rescue capability is limited.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in Montenegro
KotorMontenegroA walled Venetian town at the head of a fjord that is not a fjord, under 1,200 metres of rock
BudvaMontenegroA walled old town on a spit of rock, a beach either side of it, and the loudest summer on the Adriatic
DurmitorMontenegroBlack Lake, the Tara canyon a kilometre deep, and forty-eight peaks over 2,000 metres, from a village at the top of the country
UlcinjMontenegroThe far south: a pirate old town on a rock, a twelve-kilometre beach of grey sand, kitesurfing, and a town that is more Albanian than Montenegrin