Day: December 25, 2024
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Plitvice Lakes National Park
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Plitvice Lakes is Croatia’s first National Park founded in 1949 and covers 115 square miles of waterfalls, lakes, and diverse wildlife. The lakes have very distinctive and differing colors, which change depending on the minerals and organisms present in the water, as well as the angle of sunlight. They are Tufa lakes with…
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Smiljan and Zadar
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The highway from Plitvice Lakes runs along the mountains, diving Croatia. In early times the mountains kept the Ottomans on the east side of the mountains and the Venetians on the West. Our next stop was Nikola Tesla’s home in Smiljan. There we saw the church where his father was an orthodox priest,…
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Zagreb
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We started in Zagreb, Croatia’s capital and largest city. Zagreb lies in the northern part of the country along the Sava River. It is on the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountains, foothills of the Dinaric Alps, close to the border with Slovenia. Zagreb’s history dates to Roman times. In 1094…