KLEK PENINSULA

This peninsula (Poluostrvo Klek) extends into the Adriatic Sea for 6.5 km in length between the hamlet of Jazina (southeast) and the cape of Rep Kleka (northwest). It encompasses most of the 21.2 km of coastline of Bosnia and Herzegovina, since Neum itself has only about 3 km of coastline. The peninsula is narrow (600 m wide on average), almost uninhabited and covered with pine trees. To the north, it forms the Bosnian bay of Neum-Klek, where an important mussel farming activity has developed, which can be found on the menu of many restaurants in Neum. To the south, the peninsula borders the bay of Mali Ston 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 about 1,200 m from the coast is the large Croatian peninsula of Pelješac, which is 65 km long. This peninsula completely closes the access to the open sea for the sailors of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Two beaches and a fishing hamlet. The Klek peninsula is easily accessible by car from the hamlet of Jazina or Kamenica by a road along the northern shore. The first beach is the pebble beach of Jazina, which is about 150 meters long and has a café and a beach chair rental service in summer. Narrow and not very beautiful, it is bordered by a road, but it is more quiet than the beaches of Neum. The main road then crosses almost the entire length of the peninsula. Halfway along the peninsula, on the left, a road leads to the south coast and to the small beach of Tanko Sedlo. Rocky and dominated by a restaurant, it is the least frequented beach of the Bosnian coast. Returning to the road, we reach the small bay of Lopata, which houses the fishing hamlet of Opuće, mussel beds and an aquaculture farm. The peninsula ends about 400 m to the northwest, at Cape Rep Kleka. As the vegetation is too dense and the terrain steep, this one is inaccessible by land. It faces the Croatian coast, about 700 m away. From Opuće, one can see, from east to west, the border post of Klek, the Croatian village of Klek and the cape of Komarna from which the Pelješac cable-stayed bridge (2,374 m long) rises. Completed in 2022, after 15 years of complicated work and various scandals, it allows Croatians and EU citizens to reach Dubrovnik and the southern part of Croatia without having to go through Bosnia-Herzegovina.