Plitvice Lakes

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October 3rd 2010
Hi Some more photos, this time Croatia. Our first stop was the Plitvice lakes national park . This is a very impressive set of limestone lakes and waterfalls and provided two days of great walking. The rain caught up with us for half a day there, not so bad as there had been flooding on the TV news every night but we never knew just where it was! Then on to Split where we dumped the ... read more

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The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a feder... ... read more