{"id":100,"date":"2015-09-06T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T00:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europeinpictures.com\/croatia-bosnia-trip-report\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2017-07-12T06:13:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T06:13:38","slug":"plitvice-lakes-national-park-croatia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.europeinpictures.com\/croatia-bosnia-trip-report\/plitvice-lakes-national-park-croatia","title":{"rendered":"Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I soon made it to Jezerce (the village by Plitvice) and easily found the little B&B, the Villa Lykos, I’d just booked maybe an hour ago. I knocked on the door and the owner greeted me, polite but confused. She wasn’t expecting any other guests this evening. I managed to explain that I had just booked it a room. She checked her FAX machine and came back with my booking, just received! She showed me the room.<\/p>\n

I drove to the Hotel Bellevue, one of the park hotels, to use their ATM to get enough Croatian Kuna to pay for the B&B then picked up a pizza to go at the pizza place in town (in the place that rents ski equipment, one of the few actual restaurants in town), then headed back and called it a night.<\/p>\n

The next morning I checked out of the Villa Lykos (great place for the money \u2013 cheap, no meals, but I spent less than twelve hours there) and made it to park entrance #2 by 7:30. (The park itself opens at 7am.) Parking is charged per hour but the price is capped after several hours.<\/p>\n

I had hoped to enter the park early to avoid the tour groups. As with my 2009 visit, I started at the Upper Lakes trails near entrance 2. To get into the park, I walked down the hill past the Hotel Bellevue to the boat launch and waited for a boat to take me the short distance across to the main Upper Lakes trails and a bunch of waterfalls. I waited on the empty boat for about ten minutes \u2013 I was the only person on it – I guess they wanted to wait for more passengers, but no one else came, so finally they took me across by myself.<\/p>\n

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Plitvice Lakes National Park<\/p><\/div>\n

I tried to remember these falls from 2009 \u2013 which ones were going to be the best to photograph? I did manage to get some great shots before the big tour groups arrived. I’d seen them last time in October, when the falls weren’t running as heavy as they were now after the spring rains.<\/p>\n

\"Waterfall,<\/a>

Waterfall, Plitvice Lakes National Park<\/p><\/div>
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\"Waterfall,<\/a>

Waterfall, Plitvice Lakes National Park<\/p><\/div>
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\"Waterfall,<\/a>

Waterfall, Plitvice Lakes National Park<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

The frogs were loud in places, as they had been in Trebinje. It was a beautiful day to visit the park \u2013 clear skies, for a change.<\/p>\n