KLEK PENINSULA

This peninsula (Poluostrvo Klek) protrudes into the Adriatic Sea for 6.5 km between the hamlet of Jazina, in the southeast, and the cape of Rep Kleka, in the northwest. It begins 2.5 km south of the town center of Neum and encompasses most of Bosnia-Herzegovina's 21.2 km coastline. Narrow (600 m wide on average), almost uninhabited and covered in pine trees, this peninsula forms the Bosnian bay of Neum-Klek to the north, home to a thriving mussel farming industry, which can be found on the menu of many of Neum's restaurants. To the south, the peninsula borders Mali Ston Bay and the Bosnian islets of Veliki Školj (7,624^m2) and Mali Školj (800^m2). The former is uninhabited private property. The latter is partly covered by the sea. At a distance of around 1,200 m from the coast lies the great Croatian peninsula of Pelješac, 65 km long. This completely closes off access to the open sea for sailors from Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Two beaches and a fishing hamlet. The Klek peninsula is easily reached by car from the hamlets of Jazina and Kamenica, via a road along the northern shore. Here you'll find the pebble beach of Jazina, some 150 m long, with a café and deckchair rental in summer. Narrow and not very beautiful, it is bordered by a road, but is quieter than the Neum beaches. The main road then crosses almost the entire length of the peninsula. Halfway along, on the left, a carriage road leads to the south coast and the small beach of Tanko Sedlo. Rocky and dominated by a restaurant, this is the least frequented beach on the Bosnian coast. Back on the road, we reach the small bay of Lopata, home to the fishing hamlet of Opuće, mussel beds and an aquaculture farm. The peninsula ends some 400 m to the north-west, at Cape Rep Kleka. As the vegetation is too dense and the terrain too steep, this is inaccessible by land. It faces the Croatian coast, some 700 m away. From Opuće, you can see, from east to west, the Klek border post, the Croatian village of Klek and the Komarna cape, from which the Pelješac cable-stayed bridge (2,374 m long) rises. Completed in 2022, after fifteen years of complicated work and various scandals, this bridge enables Croatians and EU citizens to reach Dubrovnik and the southern part of Croatia without having to pass through Bosnia-Herzegovina.