Blogs from Central Croatia, Croatia, Europe - page 32

We kept seeing a poster showing an absolutely beautiful picture of one of the falls. I thought it had been taken from an airplane. Surprisingly and happily we found the spot from which the photo shown in the poster had been taken. Here it is. ... read more

There is beauty everywhere you look here. The boardwalks lead the walker right beside the falls and cascades. I thought it interesting that cascade in Croatian is "kaskade." We walked about seven to eight hours each day we were in Plitvice, totally wearing ourselves out, but enjoying every minute of the day. I wish I had brought my pedometer along so I could make a fair estimate of how far we walked each day. My feet said eight to ten miles and that may be a fair estimate.... read more

The big falls is 78 meters high. This translates into about 253 feet. The big or high falls is the only one that comes from a spring fed stream. All the other falls and rapids come from lake water falling over the built up travertine ledges throughout the park. Travertine is a calcite deposit that very slowly builds up from very mineral rich water. ... read more

The train rolled into Zagreb on track no. 1 about eight-thirty this morning. Our first task was to find out how to travel from the train station to the bus station as our destination was the Plitvice National Park. Plitvice was established as a national park in 1949 and in the '70's UNESCO declared it a world heritage site. The only way to get there is either to rent a car and drive, or take a bus. The trip is two to two and a half hours. Plitvice is near the Serbian border and it was here that the first shots were fired in the terrible war between Serbia, Croatia and others in the early '90's. I'll talk a bit more about that later. We went to the information desk. A young woman greeted us. "How ... read more

YOU CAN CLICK ON PHOTOS TO ENLARGE; YOU CAN GO THROUGH JUST THE PHOTOS IN THAT ENLARGED FORMAT. IF YOU PUT YOUR CURSER ON THE MAP, YOU CAN MOVE THE MAP AROUND FOR BETTER ORIENTATION. Yes, you read right 2003 - I'm doing a bit of catch-up regarding our travel journals. This is for our records mainly, as most of these journals went out in print form years ago, but we thought you might enjoy a bit of "time travel." Also on this site is a blog on Malta from Christmas 2004. I did a "quiet publish" on this one, meaning it is on our site but you all didn't get notice of it. If you are interested, look above "CROATIA 2003" and you see Travel Blogs by: Kathy Bernie - Previous Entry. If you click ... read more