Plitvice Lakes

Plitvice Lakes
Hot to a cooler evening
Ethno Houses Plitvice

This morning was spent exploring Plitvice Lakes on a five kilometre walk around the beautifully green hued lakes.  This is Croatia’s biggest national park and attracts up to 18 thousand visitors a day.  Last year alone there were 2 million visitors in the warmest months.  There is now a planned approach to managing the tourists with strict access being directed by internal rangers and guides to manage the situation.

David standing with our accommodation in the background.  It gets to minus twenty-five in the winter with lots of snow.  The pen is housing goats.

The large waterfall just near the entrance.

The real story of taking a photo of the waterfalls.....tourists, tourists everywhere!

Pristine water cascading over grass.

Can you see the tourists on the path opposite?

Paths are laid our beautifully..

The ferry boat, one of many, takes 100 passengers at a time to the other side of the lake at a very slow pace to minimise wash damage to the side of the lake.

Looking down and through the trees to the wonderful green blue colour of the lakes. 

There are 16 terraced lakes in the area with up to 90 other lakes.  The national park covers an area of 300 square kilometres and the lakes join together over a distance of eight kilometres.

We followed the paved paths and wooden bridges to view the waterfalls and follow the lake to a station to catch a slow moving ferry to the other side of one of the lakes.  We then walked back to where we caught the boat and then made our way back to the hotel.
An afternoon of rest beckoned after a hot day.