Day 31: Dubrovnik, Croatia

Dubrovnik is incredible.

Today we had a walking tour of Old Town in the morning and we kayaked around Lokrum and snorkelled for the afternoon. We ended up kayaking about 7.5 km in total and we certainly got a workout! We had a double kayak and we just couldn't keep it straight.

The walking tour of Old Town was really interesting. Dubrovnik wasn't part of Croatia at first and was independent. Since they didn't have an army and wanted to stay that way, they paid the leader of the Ottoman Empire for protection. They even have a ten km portion of land so they wouldn't directly border any other country. So if you want to drive from one end of Croatia to the other, you have to have your passport because you have to cross through Bosnia for ten minutes.

After the kayaking, we headed back to our Airbnb, did some laundry, made ourselves some dinner and took it easy for the rest of the night.Read more