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Published: October 14th 2007
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Ange looking out over the boardwalk and water After a few days in Zadar and our trip out to Plitvice National Park, we hopped on a bus for the two hour trip to Sibenik.
As the bus drove into Sibenik through these communist style, ugly high rises and dirty streets, I might have mumbled “Adam, please can we not get off the bus”. But Adam wasn’t listening and dragged me off the bus promising it had to get better than the bus station…. And it was.
Once we rounded the corner and out onto the waterfront I changed my mind - the place seemed pretty nice and by the time we reached the old town I was loving the place! Well at least I did once we finally found our accommodation! The streets are about a million years old (that might be a slight overstatement but you get the idea), and not exactly in a straight line. Nor are all the houses numbered. So we wandered around with our crappy map and heavy packs for EVER looking for our accommodation. Needless to say we were pretty excited when we finally found it!
The place we stayed in was amazing and by far the coolest place we
Looking out over Sibenik
Enjoying the view from our roof top terrace - we loved this spot stayed at during our trip. It was a B&B right in the old town and as nobody else was staying there we had the whole place to ourselves. And if you can imagine, there were 5 rooms in the house - 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen and a roof terrace… and it was one room per floor! So by the time (and I’m talking many minutes) of climbing stairs, to get to the roof terrace we had a pretty kick arse view and sun baking location. Needless to say - we spent a lot of time and consumed many pivos up there!
Sibenik isn’t really promoted as a tourist destination and we were mainly using it as a base for another national park but I have to say that it is well worth the visit. Not only does it have a really pretty harbour (and impressive boats coming into dock), it has the most authentic looking Old Town we saw on our visit. The streets and houses were so cute and it was great just wandering round exploring. Plus it had some kick arse places to eat tasty and cheap seafood - yum!
Ok Ange is taking a
Loving the good weather
As much as we wanted to see the town, we so wanted to buy a few pivo's and kick back on our terrace break so I am taking over the writing of the blog...
As Ange mentioned above, another reason we were coming to Sibenik was to make the trip out to Krka National Park to wander around the forest and view the waterfalls and cascades. We really hoped the weather would be kinder to us on this trip - and it didn't dissapoint. We hopped on the bus for the 30 minute trip out to a little town called Skradin which is an entry point into the National Park.
Skradin was a nice little town - bigger than what we thought it would be - and offered lots of accomodation and eating options for all the tourists that head out there for the National Park. It is also a port for private boats that head up the river from Sibenik to visit the park - once again I was enthralled with some of the most amazing boats that were docked there (and very jealous).
Once again you do have to pay to get into the National Park, but I do think you get you money worth as you catch a boat along the River Krka up to the park
entrance from Skradin - the boat trip was nice and relaxed and offered some nice sightseeing.
The Krka National Park was another beautiful spot - right near the ferry entrance is the largest and impressive Skradinski Buk waterfall - which is 45m high and cascades down 17 steps over a distance of 800m. This was a beautiful place and you could actually swim in the waters at the bottom of this waterfall - once again the waters were beautiful, clear and full of fish.
We spent the afternoon walking around the lake and waterfall systems and enjoying the views. If we had had more time we would have caught another ferry further up river to section two of the park which featured another waterall Roski Slap (not as big) and the Monastery of Visovac which sits out on a little island in the middle of the lakes (you see this in a lot of tourism photos). Never the less we weren't dissappointed by the lower sections that we visited.
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