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 caves and waterfalls. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Park is in the mountainous Karst area of central Croatia. Only about 10 miles from Bosnia Herzegovina.
The park has 16 main lakes that have trails around them. The highest waterfall is 78 m. (256 ft). The tufa walls separate the lakes, and sometimes they die, joining two lakes into one. The tufa “walls” have separated the lakes into upper and lower lakes.
After walking around the lower lakes, we took a boat across to a “port” that had facilities and lunch food. After eating we were to take another boat across the biggest lake to the spot to start walking around the upper lakes. A thunder storm hit and we all got drenched, so when we crossed the big lake, we went to our hotel to try to dry out and do the hike tomorrow morning.
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