The Elaphite Islands are also known as Deer Islands owing to how the islands spread out in the sea like antlers. There are 13 main islands and many smaller ones including inlets and reefs with only 3 inhabited: Sipan, Lopud and Kolocep.
Kolocep is a wonderful green island thick with pine forests and rich with olive, lemon and orange trees. It is 3km square and only has 150 inhabitants. There are 2 villages: Gornje Celo and Donje Celo, the latter being the main village and it only takes 15 minutes to walk between them. The beauty of this island is that there isn’t any vehicular traffic, although I did see a couple of mopeds.
The ferry runs during the week four times a day and just twice on Sundays. Kolocep is the closest Elaphite Island to Dubrovnik and it only takes 25 minutes, but those 25 minutes are so enjoyably spent rhythmically swaying on board the ferry.
