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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.

See more on:

• Jeanne’s Croatia 2008
• Krka Waterfalls National Park

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