Wherever you go in in Croatia, you’ll find the Plitvice Lakes National Park being promoted. All that advertising sems to be working as it has over one million visitors each year. In fact, it’s so popular that the park authorities restrict the number of hourly entrants.
We’d always wanted to go but never had the opportunity. This time, the stars aligned because it was a perfect halfway stopover between Split and Zagreb and my mother-in-law paid the two-day entrance fee as my birthday present, so it couldn’t have worked out better. Thanks Jeannie! 😊
While the park name focuses on the 16 lakes, the most spectacular aspect is the series of 90 waterfalls that link them in a descending cascade falling 133 metres. The largest waterfall is 78 metres and the Croats kept the naming simple – “the Great Waterfall”.
Whereas the lakes seem to be named after whatever fell into them – a bandit who was shot into the lake; someone who fell in while fishing ; goats who fell through the ice while escaping wolves. Plitvice lies in a region called Lika, the Land of the Wolves, and there are still around 200 protected wolves in the park. They’re not keen on humans (a bit like a few humans I know! 😉) and there were plenty of us around so we were safe enough. There were snakes about too but what Mhairi didn’t know, didn’t hurt her fortunately!
It's a wanderful life, so it is 
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