Plitvici, Croatia

29 September 2025. Monday. We checked out of our bnb, Vila Lara, saying goodbye to Ziga and his mother. Drove south for Croatia. For reasons we never figured out, our Google Map directions kept taking us off the main roadways to back roads. We basically arrived at Plitvice National Park driving down some alleyways and dodging chickens (and one private driveway by accident). But it did give us the opportunity to view and reflect on a back road memorial to 52 people mass-murdered in 1991 during the Balkans war. Our visit to Plitvice was awesome once we got away from the crowds on the boardwalks during the first half-mile. We hiked over six miles viewing numerous lakes and waterfalls created by the eroded karst environment. Very very pretty and the fish seemed very happy.Read more