After a nice breakfast at our lodge, we went to the entrance of the Pletvice National Park to be there at 8am ... our stated time slot according to our tickets.
I am going to try to summarize one of the most unique and beautiful experiences with nature in recent memory ... pristine, majestic, unique ... the paths are beautifully laid out in a way not only to experience entirety of the park, the lakes, the waterfalls, the beauty ... but also experience them up close, in a calm, very zen way. Many of the wood-plank pathways were built on top of shallow waters, ponds, and close to waterfalls as they made their way down all the layers of the park. Wow.
It was a good decision to start early because things started getting crowded as the holiday weekend visitors started to show up. We left the park around 1pm, had lunch in the park and headed West towards the coast again.
An uneventful ride ... amazing tiny rural roads with tight tight turns made the whole ride down the mountains very special ... seeing how people live, their fields, their houses, their farms reminds me of how special it is to travel on a motorcycle going places people do not normally see.
We had a nice cappuccino stop in Ogudin ... as Pam was beginning to get dizzy with so many twisties ... we had another stop for coffee and a snack at the historic port city of Rijeka as we made our way to Rovinj for the night.
Rovinj is a wall protected medieval town with lots of history ... we had to park outside the wall and wait for our hots to come get us in an electric golf cart to take us in ... we all piled in one cart with our bags!
We checked in ... went for a walk ... and had a seafood dinner at a restaurant with the most beautiful view before calling it a day.
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