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| Page Views: 8,349 Last Visit to Croatia: 2004 | The Plitvice Lakes by croisbeauty - last update: Feb 14, 2005 |
A PHENOMENON OF THE DINARIC KARST Plitvicka Jezera National Park is one of the most beautiful natural wonders in Europe. In a velley between high forested mountains lies, one bellow another, a string of sixteen beautiful lakes of a crystal blue-green colour. The area fed by many small streams and brooks and spill over into each other in foaming cascades and thundering waterfalls. Over the millennia, the waters of these lakes have diccolved the limestone rock and carved out the valley in which they now lie. |
|  | Plitvice Through the sedimentation of calcium carbonate and the work of special kinds of algae and moss tufa or travertine has been deposited, and is still deposited to form the natural dams that separate the lakes. |
Plitvice Since the process is going on today, yust as it always has, new travertine barriers, curtains, stalactites, chanels and cascades are being built and the existing ones are changing. | | |
| | Plitvice As it is deposited, the tufa coats the beds and banks of the lakes, giving the water a sparkling beauty and petrifyingtrees and stones which fall into the lakes. |
Plitvice The water keeps breaking through the travertine barriers at different places, so that the entire process of formation of lakes and dams is alive and very dynamic. | | |
| | Plitvice This is, in fact, a continuous dynamic process of tufa formation, a uniquely interesting natural phenomenon. |
Plitvice Nature's construction work continues in undisturbed ecological conditions. | | |
| | Plitvice Besides the lakes are some interesting caves in which the remains of prehistoric settlements have been found. |
Plitvice The National Park covers an area of 29.482 hectares, of which 22.308 is forest, 217 hectares is lakes and streams, and 6.957 is meadow and farm land. | | |
| | Plitvice The forest, which in places seems almost primeval, contain a wealth and variety of animal and plant life. |
Plitvice Hunting, fishing and swiming are not allowed. | | |
| | Plitvice There are deer, bears, wolves, wild boar, wild cats, small game and many kinds of birds. The water have excellent trout. |
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| | Plitvice There are a few hotels inside the National Park. This one is hotel "Jezero". |
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| | Plitvice The trails are marked on the tickets that visitors buy when they enter. |
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xdescendx Fri Jul 24, 2009 14:11 UTC
I absolutely loved Croatia!! I can't wait to go back and absorb some more beauty. Great pages!! | Minashka Wed May 20, 2009 18:10 UTC
Dear Boris, thank you so much for all your wonderful tips! I am going to your amazing country at the end of July and there's so much to do that I don't even know where to start! :) | junecorlett Mon May 4, 2009 11:59 UTC
Croatia is on our list. Thanks for tips. | mcflin Sat May 24, 2008 02:09 UTC
new zealand couple, have been to croatia 3 years ago and am comming back in august september 2008. i think it is a very beautiful country . but i love the coast |
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