Sunday May 29, 2005
Hi All,
Got up early to do a tour of Plitvice Lakes National Park. This is another world
heritage site. If you took Niagra Falls at about 6 different levels, added a
dash of Grand Canyon and put it in the forest you have Plitvice Lakes.
It took a 2 one half hour bus ride down to the center of Croatia. On the bus
ride saw evidence of the war in this area, now 10 years away. Typical Croatian
2 story houses pockmarked with bullet holes and obvious burned structure marks.
This was only in a relatively small region near the lakes, most of the Croatia I
travelled had little signs of the 1991 war left showing. The first shots were
actually fired at the national park. The first casualty was a park ranger.
Plitvice is a series of lakes at different levels pouring into one another. They
are ?bowls? of very emerald blue water, the color coming from Calcium
carbonate deposits. The lakes are in karst limestone ground, pouring over each
other thru the forest. They have set up cut log pathways along the lake,
creating a beautiful effect.
I spent about 3 or 4 hours on a self guided tour. You can only buy one way
tickets from Zagreb, then you flag down the bus on your way back. Well this
works except on a holiday weekend, which this was!! tried for 3 hours, then
gave up. I got a hotel at the park, had a wonderful stay there, turned out for
the better :) Flagged down an early bus back, no problem the day after the
holiday.
Im off to Dubrovnik tommorrow (Monday). Ill fly down from Zagreb to Dubrovnik,
its only a $60 flight.
See you in Dubrovnik
