Godinje viewpoint

The Bar tourist office's viewpoint above Skadar Lake and the stone village of Godinje, with free parking and GPS.

The Godinje viewpoint looks over Skadar Lake and the traditional stone architecture of Godinje, a village in Bar municipality. The Bar tourist office lists it with map coordinates and free parking, and it is the end point of the national park's marked Zabes-Godinje trail, 4.5 km.

A cobbled lane climbing between old stone houses and greenery — Stone houses along a lane in old GodinjePhoto: Mercy, CC BY-SA 3.0

What you see

The lake panorama and, below the viewpoint, the stone houses of Godinje. The tourist office tags the spot for walking and cycling.

A calm blue lake with green hilly islands under a clear sky — Skadar Lake and its islands from the Godinje viewpointPhoto: ines lukic, CC BY 3.0

How to get there

GPS: 42.234883, 19.1056282, from the Bar tourist office's listing map.
Parking: free.
On foot: the Zabes-Godinje trail, 4.5 km, linear, about 2 hours. Skadar Lake National Park grades it medium-hard; the Bar tourist office's trail table says medium. The trail passes a viewpoint at the Brčelice pass, for which the park gives no coordinates or altitude.

A narrow asphalt road through scrub towards green hills — The narrow road to GodinjePhoto: Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0

Fees

Skadar Lake National Park charges €5 per person per day. Whether the ticket applies at a roadside viewpoint above the lake is not stated.

Other lookouts over the lake

Viewpoint	GPS	View
Murići (Bar)	42.1580803, 19.2096236	The gorice islets with their monasteries; free parking; Murići beach below is a boat-tour stop
Livari (Bar)	42.1303208, 19.2277901	The lake; free parking
Štegvaš (Bar/Ulcinj)	42.0646437, 19.3739803	The whole lake, the Bojana basin and Šas lake
Pavlova strana (Cetinje)	-	Named by the park; above Rijeka Crnojevića

Murići and Livari are listed by the Bar tourist office with free parking. Zekova glava, 164 m, is the park's other named lookout on this shore, with a 3.9 km hike graded difficult by the Bar tourist office.