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We had spent a very comfortable night in Pansion House Prijeboj  just south of the Plitvice Park entrance. The owner had a tank where he kept trout and had cooked us one for our dinner that was so fresh it was almost flapping! Delicious. Our last excursions were to be to the Plitvice Lakes National Park. Croatia is the place for lakes and waterfalls. As it is so large we had decided to take two days over it as the park can be easily divided into upper and lower areas. The lakes lie in a descending string linked by waterfalls that cascade over travertine ledges. It is a karst system like Krka Park. The first day we explored the lower lakes, coming in by the north entrance. It was pretty busy with lots of tourists, mainly Japanese. The entrance to the lower lakes lies above the lakes and you get an aerial view over to the waterfalls on the other side. Here is a map of the walk we (roughly) took. The water is flowing north. After walking up the lake system you can catch a boat t...

We finally left Split mid morning and drove north west until we came to Skradin, gateway to the Krka National Park. Here we parked the car, bought tickets and boarded a boat to take us up the Krka River to the start of the Skradinski buk trail. Views from the boat trip are shown in the first three pictures. The river flows in a canyon, up to 200m deep through the limestone hills, and the water has deposited calcium carbonate which formed the travertine ledges and waterfalls. The algae and mosses help trap the calcium carbonate which over millennia form the tufa ledges. You walk on boardwalks through green avenues passed running streams with glimpses of the waterfalls. Cyclamens were growing wild under the trees and the pools teamed with fish. There was not a lot of water in some of the streams and the falls would look a lot more dramatic in the spring. I took the tripod with me so I was able to use a neutral density filter to 'slow' the water down when I was photographing th...