Andrea Hearts Traveling: Croatia

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Many people said “Zagreb is not worth it”, many people said “Zagreb is a one day stop at the most”, I said “let me see it myself and figure it out!” and guess what? Zagreb was my favorite part of Croatia!!!!

The city was not like Dubrovnik or Split screaming “tourists come and see me!” instead it had character, it had an ambiance, it had an authentic beauty that you only get by walking among the locals or sitting on a park bench like any Croat.

After an early morning wake up call in Zadar April and I headed to the bus station and got the first bus to plitvice lakes.

I know I have said that I am over waterfalls since nothing really compares to Victoria Falls or Iguazu but I thought that Plitvice looked awesome and were worth the trip, plus they are a highlight of Croatia, so I kind of had to!

The bus ride took a little over 2 hours and although the day started clear and beautiful the closer we got to Plitvice the worst the weather got. Why does it has to rain on the day we decide to walk around lakes and waterfalls? I was really hoping for the rain to stop as soon as we got to Plitvice… but that didn’t happen!

We got off the bus and headed to the info office to figure out where to leave our bags. Luckily, the park offers free luggage storage so we dropped our bags off, got our tickets, and started to explore the famous Plitvice.

After going to Bosnia and Herzegovina it was time to loop back into Croatia; the next destination being the very famous Split.

Once again I found a coastal town filled with huge cruise ships and a million people walking around. I stayed in a hostel right inside the old town so at least during the night I was able to see a more chilled out city with less tourists after they went back into their massive cruise ship and sailed to their next destination.

Right after dropping my bags off at the old town hostel I went to the tourist info office and got a map to see what there was to see in Split and the woman at the desk was shocked that I didn’t know that the 2 days I was going to be there were the celebration of their Saint, St. Dominius, and apparently the biggest holiday celebration after New Year’s! Well, maybe that explains the massive amounts of tourists?!?!?!

Dubrovnik... or as I call it, the city with the most tourists eating gigantic ice creams!

Zagreb

Plitvice Lakes

Split and Zadar

Moving on to Croatia... Dubrovnik!

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