Plitvice Lakes

Plitvice Lakes National Park is amazing! Turquoise blue lakes and ponds that cascade into each other creating dozens of waterfalls – it was gorgeous.

The weather on this side of the mountains was cooler than along the coast. It made for perfect walking weather, and there was certainly a lot of walking today. We entered the park and took a bus to the upper lakes where we started our walk through the park.

From there we walked for about an hour and a half along a wooden boardwalk that took us beside gorgeous lakes where fish could be seen swimming in the crystal clear water along the shore. There were also some waterfalls where one pool went into the other. Yasmin and Roya entertained themselves with Harry Potter figurines that they had brought along. At one point Yasmin came back to us looking extremely upset. Nadim and I nearly had a heart-attack thinking that Roya had fallen in (she was just around the bend in the path), but the problem was that one of their figurines had gone for an unintentional swim! Luckily Nadim was able to save him, and all was well in imaginary Harry Potter land.

We stopped for a picnic lunch along the way and then caught a boat to the lower lakes. From here we walked for about another hour.

The first bit of this walk took us alongside some more lakes and waterfalls, but the second half of the walk was at the edge of a cliff where you could get some great views of the lakes and falls we had just walked beside.

At one point we could even see some of the upper lakes and falls that we had seen during our first walk. We ended with another bus ride back to the station where we had begun.

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