cold – Benny & Bessy's Travels from 2021 and Samson & Suzi's European Travels 2016-2020…… (as named by Jack Spencer)

Yesterday was a day to chill out, as the temperatures reached 35C! So off we headed to Krka National Park, hoping it would be a bit cooler in the shade!!!

Unlike the UK, in Croatia you have to pay to enter a National Park, sometimes quite a hefty fee! Plitvice National Park (inland) was 180KN, equivalent to £25 but Krka Park, which was only an hour’s drive from Split, was only 100KN, almost half price.

We arrived about 10.30am and had brunch at a cafe in the local town, caught the 11.30 ferry for the 20 minute journey up the river to the first set of falls. The lakes are split into 3 separate areas, and if we wanted to do all 3, we would have to spend about 9 hours there! However, the most popular site was the first, where there is also a large area for people to swim. Further up the river are more archeological sites, old water mills, monasteries and other old buildings as well as spectacular high waterfalls.

It was fairly peaceful despite it being full of coach loads of visitors. The small river tributaries run into pools and ponds, there was clean clear water everywhere. The walkways around the lakes were about 2km long and offered lots of scenic stops to admire the views.

I was brave and did venture into the swimming area, David was on bag monitoring duties, and I came out feeling cool, refreshed and chilled. The water was clean, smelled clean and was icy cold at first, then cooling once you got in!