Plitvice Lakes National Park

 

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Today was spent at probably the most beautiful park in the world.  Plitvice is a chain of 16 lakes that are tiered one to the next with waterfalls.  Wooden pathways and earthen trails guide visitors along, over and through the waters.  A nice couple staying here agreed to join us for the day. We started at our rooming house for a mile walk until we came to the ‘secret’ Flora gate to the park that is meant for people staying in Plitvicka Selo like us.  Otherwise, it is 20km to the main entrance via a drive around the canyon.  The Flora entrance is near Point3, and there our program began with an electric boat ride across Kozjak lake to Point2.
At point 2 we walked along the Upper lake chain through many areas of small waterfalls and scenery. At the end of the route is ST3, where we rode a bus tram to the main entrance 1.  This is where normal people get into the park and start the route.  We followed the trail back to Point3 via the trails around the lower lakes.  There is a 250’ deep vertical cave that opens at the bottom to lake level and joins the lower trail.   There are stairs all the way down, and bats.


  The water is so clean and clear, you can see to the bottom as if there wasn’t any water there in shallow areas.



A view from the high trail

The water is truly turquoise 





When we got to P3 we had lunch, got some souvenirs and walked back uphill to the house.

My Fitbit stats for today in the park:



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