Destination 》Europe 》Central and Eastern Europe 》Croatia 》Plitvice Lakes National Park
Year Visited: 2018 – October
After spending couple of days walking around Zagreb, the capital city of Croatia, we continued our backpacking through the Balkans journey by taking a bus to visit Plitvice Lakes National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Plitvice Lakes National Park, a 295-sq.-km forest reserve in central Croatia, is considered to be one of the most beautiful natural sights in Europe. It’s known for a chain of 16 terraced lakes, joined by waterfalls, that extend into a limestone canyon. Walkways and hiking trails wind around and across the water, and an electric boat links the 12 upper and 4 lower lakes. It was set aside as a National Park in 1949. In 1979, the park was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Pictures below are from our full-day hike through this wonderful National Park.
After a full-day hike through the National Park, we took a bus back to Zagreb, to catch a bus next morning for Pula, a seafront city on the tip of Croatia’s Istrian Peninsula,
Window on the World 