Croatia Attractions

Croatia's Jewel

Advantages: Scenery is amazing. Well maintained paths. Good strudel.
Disadvantages: Weather not typical for Croatia. Bus loads of tourists.

Plitvice Lakes National Park is well worth a visit if you are traveling Croatia or this part of Europe. Said ‘Plit-vich’ as the Croatian language uses ‘c’ as ‘ch’ like Italian. Close to the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, this park can be found at the heart of this odd shaped country – it’s not in the north region near Zagreb, nor in the south near Dubrovnik, neither in the west near Pula or anywhere near the coast, but in the middle. There ...
...moss hanging from them. Plitvice Lakes National Park has been a World Heritage Site since 1979. There are a total of sixteen lakes at the park, divided into upper and lower sections. The park is very green with beech, spruce and fir trees providing plenty of foliage. It was supposedly damaged in the conflict between Serbia, Croatia and Yugoslavia etc, but there is no sign of this. The park is in pristine condition. There are two entrances to the ...

jjqburch 04.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Plitvice Lakes National Park, Plitvice Lakes National Park

Dubrovnik's Splendid Stradun

Advantages: Fascinating Walkway through Medieval Dubrovnik
Disadvantages: Can be Hard Work in July and August

Dubrovnik, a Unesco World Heritage Site, has now fully recovered from the bitter Serbian and Montenegrin siege of 1991-92 and has been restored to its former splendour. This remarkable former city-state has in its historic centre perhaps the most attractive and well preserved Baroque core of any European city, its swathe of churches, palaces and old stone houses neatly contained within the stone walls that have protected it for centuries. The city ...
...north and the azure waters of the Adriatic to the south. Lord Byron named it ' the pearl in the Adriatic,' and Bernard Shaw said, " Those that seek paradise on earth should seek it in Dubrovnik." Praskipark on numerous occasions has named this city as,' the jewel in Croatia's crown.' All great cities are described using cliches but the words used, corny as they may be, certainly do describe this particular city. I have been visiting Dubrovnik and ...

Praski 08.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Placa Thoroughfare (Stradun), Dubrovnik