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"God Was Having Fun When He Created This"
We spent Saturday at the most beautiful place I've ever seen - Plitvice Lakes in Croatia. The title is what Mom said about it. She was amazing - we hiked for four hours and she made it! I am still feeling the effects today (Sunday). It was pretty strenuous. I have uploaded a small selection of the seven million photos that I took. Most of them need no caption. ...
Dalmation coast
... The town of Split has a Roman connection with a palace that belonged to a retired Roman Ruler..he built this for his retirement,as one does when one is an emperor! Now we are in a huge hotel in Plitvice National Park. I'm waiting to have breakfast and then we head off for a bush walk today.. A word on the tour. It is actually a very large group..too large in fact. but apart ...
Water, water everywhere
... back and shed our wet clothes and have a drink.
This place was described as taking Niagara Falls, slicing it up and sprinting it in a green Grand Canyon.
Some believe that the Serbian/Croatian war started here with the first death a poor park warden. The park was in the hands of the Serbs for most of the conflict.
Tomorrow we head for Split and, hopefully sunshine or at least no rain. Did I mean it was raining?
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Plitvice Lakes National Park
... and several customs officials later, they ended up getting kicked off the train because two of them had been in Europe for over three months and didn't have the right permits. It looked like we were in the middle of nowhere at the time. I'm sure they were in for a much longer night than us.
On the second train we sat next to a local man that had also been drinking. He was stealthily drinking beer from his bag and taking smoke brakes ...
Waterfalls everywhere!
... and probably much more miserable because of it. It's worth trying to avoid the crowds.
We stopped briefly at the viewpoint for the 'big falls' after finishing our main walk. They do what they say on the tin. Incidentally, the Croatian word for 'falls' is 'slap'. This leads to many amusing-sounding names to my English-attuned ears, such as a nearby restaurant, the 'Bistro Slap'.
After having our fill of Plitvice, we drove a bit ...
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