Road Trip, Part 4

One of the most spectacular places we went was the Plitvice Jezera National Park. The park is huge, however, we were limited to our access due to the heavy snow, BUT we did get to see the waterfalls, including the "big" waterfall. There is a wooden boardwalk that crosses over the water to get a closer-up view of the waterfalls. It feels like you're just walking on water. 

First, we had to walk down this narrow switchback path and if there is one thing I learned about Croatia - they have a laissez faire policy on guard rails. Gio and I were betting on who was going to bust it first. We both bet me, but surprisingly, neither of us fell. Gio did develop a pretty innovative way to walk on this path...

And here is our lovely and very safe boardwalk across the water, and yes those are stairs traveling down you see there:

This was Gio's technique for un-chapping his lips... Again, how innovative. What an engineer.

Big clumps of snow were sitting on those plants in the water so it looked like it was just sitting on the water. I think it was such a good thing it snowed for us because I think it made the view that much more breathtaking. And once again, it was around 55 degrees outside, so Gio isn't totally crazy just wearing that fleece.

 

 

I took a video of the waterfall. I took more that were a lot closer but the video is so shaky because I'm concentrating on not falling into the freezing water and not looking at the video. Just re-watching it was making me ill, so I won't put any of you through that. We did leave our mark so everyone does know the Gator Nation is literally everywhere...

artist: Giovanni Garcia

The lakes look absolutely delicious for swimming so I'm just going to add to my travel list to go back there in the summer sometime and venture off the boardwalk...but not down the waterfall. They are completely see through and green. 

The night before we came to the park we stayed at a little bed & breakfast outside of the park. It was adorable and naturally we took a picture of the Punto in front of it...

The next and final stop on our road trip is Croatia's capital, Zagreb.