As promised, a mid-week blog post about my trip to Croatia. It'll be a recap/do's and don'ts/tips'n'trix kind of post. I'm not going to bother you with places you must visit. You can find enough blogs/books/guides/websites who can advise you where to go and help you plan your trip. I'm here to give an honest opinion about my trip to Croatia ;)
I have about 8 'tips':
1) Zadar is a very beautiful city. Old town is anyway, no idea what new town looks like. My tip for this city is to find accommodation just outside old town. That way you're within walking distance to the city centre, but also within walking distance to the beach.
2) the Plitvice lakes are gorgeous but waaaaay too touristy to my taste. Daily about 14.000 visitors walk through the park so you're never a second by yourself to enjoy the splendor of nature. It's difficult to take pictures as you're always taking photos of other tourists or someone is waiting impatiently to get past you. That is not how I'd like to enjoy a walk through nature. If I ever want to see lakes as blue as the Plitvice ones again, I'll do my research to avoid the crowd and where you can actually swim! I've heard that the lakes in Krka are worth to pay a visit ;)
3) My first impression of Split is that it is a dirty dirty dirty city. The smell of pee is almost always present. The beach near our accommodation was far from my scene, but the other little beach we found was okay. Old town is alright though. Some beautiful building, boulevard and Marjan park. I have to admit this was the least fun city we've visited.
4) Dubrovnik; freaking King's Landing yeah! If you're a GoT fans this will be your cup of tea. But bear in mind: they have a lot of stairs in Dubrovnik. Our accommodation was situated on the hill with a beautiful view over the town. But screw the view, find an accommodation near the town, unless you want to walk a bizillion stairs up and down every day. The beach next to the old city walls is also pretty idyllic. But again, in many places the smell of pee is present.
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| View from our accommodation in Dubrovnik... As you can see we had to walk many many flights of stairs down... And up... |
5) Croatia hasn't scored highly regarding tourist friendliness. Shop assistants, waiters, etc are often not friendly towards tourists. Not in my experience anyway. Luckily most of hotel/apartment owners are and most of them show you on a map the best places to eat, easiest way to get to a touristy spot and things you definitely must see before you leave again.
6) Temperatures in August can easily reach 38 degrees. If you can't handle heat well, you might want to visit during spring or autumn. Not summer. It's not that I mind the sweating (it will stream of your body, even when sitting still), but thank god there is almost always a beach nearby. You'll need to cool off!
7) A very useful and practical tip for when you go swimming: buy waterproof shoes/sandals. There are a lot of rocks in the Adriatic sea and it rather hurts your feet. It might look a bit silly, but you'll enjoy your swim even more as you don't have to worry about hurting yourself!
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| Basic essentials: A good book, waterproof shoes, sunscreen, sunglasses, a towel and a hat. Oh, and don't forget a bottle of water! |
8) The last tip is pretty self explanatory: Eat a lot of ice cream and a lot of chips. And don't forget to drink a lot!
Voila, I hope these tips were a bit useful. If not, I hope they were enteraining at least :)
If you've ever been to Croatia yourself, please tell me about your experiences! Whether you agree or disagree with some of my 'tips' ^^
As always, thanks for reading
xo - Sara
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