The crowds at Plitvice are incredible during the summers, and it’s recommended that you buy tickets online, to ensure you don’t end up making the journey and nding yourself turned away at the ticket of- ce because the park is sold out. If you have a pet, you needn’t wor- ry about what to do with him – it’s enough to put them on a lead and take them on your adventure, because pets are allowed to enter Plitvice.
If you want to rest, you can do so at the dock for tour boats, which has benches and tables. It is, of course, impor- tant to clean up after yourself. If you want to take a swim, you can do so in the largest lake, Kozjak, in its icy mountain waters that are so clear that you can see the lake’s bottom at any moment, even at great depths, as it shines under the sun’s rays. There are shoals of trout that are so accus- tomed to visitors that they will approach you themselves. Living in the forests of Plitvice Lakes are bears, brown bears, which are a protected species, just like the wolves and lynxes that also live here. There are also river crabs, a rare type of otter and numerous species of bird. Also grow- ing here are 58 species of orchid, including Europe’s most beautiful and most endangered orchid, the Lady’s-slip- per orchid. There are also endangered species of very ra- re carnivorous plants, but also the virgin forest of Čorkova
VIA ZADAR TO THE LAKES Air Serbia has introduced a ight to Zadar, and reach- ing Plitvice from there is easy and cheap. Located just over a hundred kilometres from the airport, this is an excur- sion that nobody should miss out on, because the beauty there is something you’ll nev- er forget.
Cove, which grows without any human in uence and comprises beech and r trees, and which is home to numerous plant and animal species. And when you look at everything around you, you will understand why the Plitvice Lakes National Park is included on the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List. And that’s because there’s nowhere else where nature has so perfectly fused stone, forest and water.
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