The main activity in beautiful Opatija is relaxing.

I'm not sure what the sign means. "No drum majors on the boardwalk"maybe?

The gardens of the Franciscan monastery that pre-existed the 18th century resort villas.

A map of the lakes we will walk tomorrow

Opatija to Plitvice

June 9, 2019 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F

Sunday morning we left our castle in Motovun bright and early to begin our drive to Plitvice Lakes National Park. Our lunch stop was in the seaside resort town of Opatija. During the 18th century, the wealthier residents of the nearby industrial city of Rijeke built beautiful Austrian-style villas.
Then we left the coast to head inland to Plitvice Lakes National Park. We stayed the night in the Hotel Plitvice, a communist-style hotel built in the 1970s when this was part of Yugoslavia.Read more