Archive for the ‘National Parks’ Category
March 30th, 2009 | 
Author: On Saturday March 28, Croatia’s largest boat show flung open its doors in Split. The Croatia Boat Show is one of the world’s top ten nautical fairs and usually brings in 50,000 visitors annually. The show will run through April 5.
Nautical tourism (i.e. yachts and yachties) pours 800 million euros a year into Croatia’s coffers, making it an crucial part of the country’s tourism revenues. But that’s not enough! New moorings are in the works to increase capacity with the goal of bringing in two billion euros a year.
In addition to exhibiting the latest yachts and yacht technology, the Croatia Boat Show is expected to advertise Croatia as a major yachting destination. Which it is. So many of Croatia’s islands (such as the Kornati Islands National Park) are only accessible by boat or best appreciated by boat.
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Plitvice Lakes, Croatia’s wondrous national park, has made it into the semifinals of the New7Wonders competition. Run by the New7Wonders foundation, this competition has as its goal the following
“Through film, television, the Internet and books, people shall be sensitized to the beauty of the world’s heritage, both man-made and natural, and be alerted of its destruction and decay.”
What could be more worthy of inclusion than the stunning system of lakes and waterfalls that comprises Plitvice Lakes National Park?
It’s got my vote. Give it yours!
Tags: Dalmatia’s answer to the splendid Plitvice Lakes National Park, the impressive network of lakes, rivers and falls of Krka National Park are easily accessible from the coastal cities of Zadar, Sibenik and Split. What’s not so easy is arranging a visit that takes you all through the park, as I found out.
Despite repeated requests to the Krka National Park office, I was unable to get a schedule of the boats that allow you to see the entire park. It’s complicated. There are hourly boats to Skradinski Buk from the park’s entry point at Skradin. But I wanted to go further! I wanted to go up the river to Roski Slap and the Franciscan Monastery on Visovac Island. No dice. There were only two other boats that day: one to Roski Slam at noon and one to Visovac Island at 4pm. Both left from Skradinski Buk.
As the National Park doesn’t post the schedules on their website, all I can suggest is that you get to the park no later than 10am if you want to see everything. And, even then, it’s not sure. I was given to understand that the boats only make the run if there are enough people which means that off-season you may not be able to make the run up the river at all. Still, the falls around Skradinski Buk are pretty great.
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