Most people come to visit Croatia to enjoy natural beauties. Natural wonders in Croatia are known all over the world. The country’s national parks may be the country’s best-known natural wonders, but even in the nation’s capital, Zagreb, tourists are offered the stunning rare beauty of small forests, city parks, and mountains. Croatia offers numerous activities that may be as thrilling as spinning the book of ra all night long. Want to know more about the best tours and activities in Croatia? Then scroll down!
Skradinski Buk at the Krka National Park – Skradin
The Krka National Park is known as the most stunning of Croatia’s main destinations and real natural wonders. The Skradinski Buk has is a big, transparent, natural water pond with cascades at one side and impressive waterfalls at the other. It is the most inferior of the several clusters of waterfalls created on the Krka river.
Due to the beauty and multiplicity of natural forms, foliage, greenery, and the numerous outcomes made by the play of sunbeams on the whirlpools.
Plitvice Lakes
The well-known Plitvice Lakes in the same name National Park has turned into a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Now it is known to be one of the oldest National Parks in Southeast Europe and one of the best national parks of Kroatië. It is an amenity to lakes formed in cascades and now, sixteen lakes can be noticed from the surface.
The Plitvice lakes are famous for their unusual colors, varying from azure to grey, green, or blue. The colors transform all the time depending on the angle of sunlight and the minerals or microorganisms in the water.
Kamenjak National park
It’s impossible to have the best holidays in Croatia without visiting the Kamenjak National park. You can enjoy some rest from the hazardous city energy in a stunning natural location at the Kamenjak peninsula. Explore lots of rare and local species of Istrian animals and plants. Follow the path of archaic dinosaur footsteps and make a visit to the farm to discover everything about Istrian family agriculture and agro-tourism. Travel around the Adriatic coast on a bike, kayak, swim, or scuba dive in one of the many hidden caves. Athletes can also find running routes, hiking tracks, a sports camp, and a windsurf post in the national park.
Lokrum Island, Dubrovnik
One of the best things to do in Croatia, is to visit Dubrovnik. It offers the sights of the medieval city and the beach amenities in one spot. You can enjoy swimming and snorkeling, admire exotic plants, and rest with peacocks at Lokrum Island near Dubrovnik. Visit the famous spot where, if you believe in the legends, King Richard the Lionheart was thrown safely ashore after a shipwreck when he was returning from the crusades. The location was also once a beloved summer resort of Austrian archduke Maximilian and a gay accommodation of Dubrovnik.
To reach the island, take a ferry from the city. Tourists can enjoy a descent into the tiny salt lake, which is 10 m (33ft) deep and often called the Dead Sea. Make a visit to the botanical garden to observe Mediterranean plants, including olives, agaves, laurels, oaks, cacti, magnolia, pines, cypresses, and palms. If you are a history lover, make a journey back in time and explore the abandoned 11th-century Benedictine abbey.
Mljet National Park
It is one of the best one-day tours and activities in Croatia from Dubrovnik. Its main attractions are two close located salt lakes—large and small ones—encircled by forests. On the larger lake travelers can find a small island, where a Benedictine abbey and church still exist. Mljet is a low-key island with pleasant lakes that are supposed to offer healing effects. The island also is rich in fauna and flora, and it is a great place for hiking. There is a legend that Ulysses was prisoned on Mljet by the nymph Calypso for seven years. Not so mythical is the island’s past with snakes. Mljet was overrun with them until the year 1910 when people brought the mongooses to get rid of the snakes. That worked, but the mongooses had no predators to fight with and invaded the island. As the reason, some bird species are still in danger.
Summary
Croatia is a great location to spend all types of holidays – birthdays, honeymoons, or just a family vacation. Nature lovers will find lots of natural parks all across the country, culture lovers can concentrate on multiple white-stone cities and try local food.
So, have you ever been to Croatia? Or would you like to add it to the vacation plan this year? There’s so much to explore in Crotia, and you can even do it by boat, for example with the cruises around Dubrovnik from Sail Croatia.
Author bio
Thomas Glare is a travel blogger with a huge experience. He’s sure that there’s nothing better than a good vacation and it doesn’t matter you’re going alone or with your friends. He thinks that traveling opens broad horizons for a person.
