Plitvice Lakes is Croatia’s oldest national park and one of its most extraordinary landscapes — breathtakingly beautiful and completely different from the Adriatic coast. Here’s how to explore it.

At this park, visitors can explore 16 lakes and over 90 waterfalls of varying size and topography. Rick Steves called it a ...

The waters flowing over the limestone and chalk have, over thousands of years, deposited travertine barriers, creating natural dams which in turn have created a series of beautiful lakes, caves and ...

In Croatia's rugged interior, a stone's throw from the Bosnian border, hides one of Europe's most exotic hikes: through Plitvice Lakes National Park. There's nothing like this lush valley of 16 ...

For those with their own wheels, getting to Plitvice is a straightforward drive along the A1 Zagreb-Split motorway followed by a short distance on minor roads – the Plitvice exit on the motorway is ...

Plitvice Lakes is one of Croatia's most alluring attractions. Just a few hours from capital city Zagreb, and easily reached by road, this remarkable feat of nature is very accessible. Visitors flock ...

Tucked into the Dinaric Alps of central Croatia, roughly halfway between Zagreb and the Adriatic coast, a chain of 16 terraced lakes spills down a limestone valley in a cascade of waterfalls that have ...

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