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Day trip from Dubrovnik to Lokrum Island

Lokrum is conveniently located on short ferry ride from Dubrovnik Old Town, so day trips to island are very popular among locals as well as among the visitors to Dubrovnik.

Additionally, spending a day or just a half day there can be really refreshing experience, as the island has plenty of pine, cypress and olive trees as well as some other subtropical vegetation which offers tranquillity and shade especially during the hot summer days.

Getting to Lokrum Island is easy – just take one of the boats leaving half-hourly in summer (less often in the rest of the year) from Porporela – the Dubrovnik’s Old Port. The trip lasts 15 minutes and cost 40 Kuna (about 5 euro)

Once you arrive there, if you wish you can take a walk along stimulating Botanical Gardens, planted in 19th century. 

The gardens have few hundred different kinds of trees and plants as well as some peacocks which were also brought on the island more that hundred years ago.

While there, check ruins of Benedictine Monastery that was built there in medieval times (remains of the old walls are still there, hidden among the vegetation)

If it is a summer period, you can also swim and sunbath along the coast of island (please, note, some swimming spots are for naturalists – check FKK sign) as well as play volleyball or football on small pitches on the island.

There are also some swings for small children hidden bellow pine trees which are suitable to use during the summer.

Interesting to know is Lokrum’s unusual historic heritage – back in 12th century, the island was shelter to King Richard the Lionheart while he was shipwrecked on his trip back home from the third Crusade (?!)

Warning:  When going on day tip to Lokrum take food and drink with you as there are no shops or restaurants the island.

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