Krka National Park

On Tuesday we let someone else do the driving for once and went on an excursion to the Krka National Park, the only way to see all the sights of the park. We set out with our driver in a minibus at 9am and were very pleased to have 2 other English people with us in our group of 6, the other couple were German. We have hardly spoken to any other English people since we left home, the campsites being mostly occupied by Germans with a few Dutch, French, Austrian and Italian campers.
Our first stop was a viewpoint

We then drove on another 20 minutes to Skradinski buk, the largest of the waterfalls in the park. It's not just one waterfall but a whole amazing series of falls over a large area

The falls were amazing and we were given the rest of the morning to walk around the falls on the wooden walkways and bridges, looking at not just the falls but the lovely woodland surrounding it with little pink cyclamen growing wild amongst the trees.

After that we were back in the minibus to travel to another viewpoint, this time to view a monastery built on a tiny island in the middle of the river. On the island the monastery has been there since 1445 and is now occupied by only 5 Franciscan monks

Our next stop was lunch of traditional Dalmation ham and cheeses at a rustic restaurant. We were served up with a completely undrinkable white wine which had an after taste which reminded me of the smell from the inside of a Wellington boot!!! The Evian water was much more palatable......

We were then transported to two more sets of waterfalls including a walk down the hillside and a visit to a cave where Bronze Age relics were discovered

And finally the day was rounded off by a visit to the Krka Monastery with a guided tour round the beautifully decorated chapel and then down into the catacombs....

We returned to the campsite after a wonderful day transported to all the amazing sites of the Krka National park