Parks and reconstructions
Plitvice & Split
The national park of Plitvice and it's 16 combined lakes was a beautiful experience. We arrived towards the evening and went out for a traditional Croatian Peka-dinner. Quite tastefull, excellenct soup followed by veal with potatoes and vegetables before dessert concisting of a pancake/crepes with jam. Plitvice was registered as an Unesco site in 1979 and boasts a massive number of tourists every year. Apparently more than 1,2million. There are 16 lakes arranged in cascades, there are more than 1200 different plants that can be found as well as numerous animals, such as bears and wolves - although we only saw some mice and a squirrel.
The arrangement of the lakes makes way for the any beautiful waterfalls which comes in all sizes.We spent one night at Plitvice, about 4 hours wandering around the park which was quite packed with tourists, before we left for Split.On the way to Split we stopped at Nicola Teslas birthplace which also held a small museum.
Split was completely packed with tourists, and it was both easy to hear and see that the scandics has direct flights there. It remined very much of the greek islands and their touristtraps. The Diocletian palace was the main highlight. A large and well preserved roman palace, but it was barely possible to move around due to the many tourists. I would have loved to get there early next morning, but a heavy thundershower put an end to those plans. We did however go to Trogir, a small city about 30-60mins by bus from Split. Still packed with tourists, but slightly fever and a lower pace in general made ita more pleasant place to be. We are now leaving Croatia for this time, heading to Mostar (unofficial capital of Hercegovina) before going to Sarajevo (official capital of Bosnia & Hercegovina) for a few days. This is what I think will be the highlight of the trip for me, so I'm really looking forward to it.
post title references the tv-show with the same name
