Plitvice Lakes

Picture perfect Plitvice National Park

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January 10th 2011
Wednesday (1/9/2010) Surprisingly by 6am the following morning the port was still again as we boarded our ferry to Split. After a snooze we pulled in to a pretty port town. We stored our luggage and bought bus tickets for the afternoon to Plitvice leaving us a few hours to explore Split. Starving first stop was coffee and pastries (our second worst addiction to ice cream!). We battled the tour gr ... 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