Thursday, August 7, 2014

Plitvice Lakes Waterfall Park

So, between Zagreb and Zadar is Plitvice Park.  Here a river runs through a canyon.  But there is something strange about the interaction of water, rock and flora - plant life grows on rocks in the river, and is eventually calcified itself, and grown upon by new plants.  The result is that the canyon is chopped up into tiny lakes, with plant-filled waterfalls and cascades between them all.  There are tall waterfalls and short waterfalls.  There are spots where you around surrounded by waterfalls.  The path is built as a walkway over the water, so sometimes the waterfalls are under you.  Alicia likes this description - imagine a rich guy owns a river valley and hires a landscaping crew, telling them "I like waterfalls, and I want them everywhere.  Wherever I look, I want to see at least three of them.  If you get to the point where you think you've added an impossible, comical number of waterfalls, you're about halfway there".
  Anyway, we took the bus from Zadar to Plitvice.  We spent that evening in the park, then a day then next day (yesterday).  That's about the right amount of time, as it's not THAT big and the total of about 10 hours in the park was enough to see it all.  Enjoy some pictures!

*update* having trouble sending pictures.. Enjoy thinking about being surrounded by waterfalls! 

1 comment:

  1. Wow, and I was excited to see ONE in the middle of Middlebury! We're off to Chicago tomorrow for Avi's wedding and will see Adam & Elana again. Have a great time.
    Love you,
    Mom

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