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About 7000 vertical meters in Croatia

The week in Croatia was what I consider to be an ideal vacation. We spent five days in mountains called Velebit near the Adriatic coast and one day in Plitvice Lakes National Park. It was my first visit to Croatia and my impression of the country was very positive. The…
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highest peaks in Velebit are over 1700 meters high. We did not expect such a huge amount of snow up in the mountains. The snow border was already at about 1400 meters above see level. We skipped the highest peaks but we could still climb many nice mountains. The landscape in this part of Croatia has a special character; it is a karst with various rock formations (bare limestone peaks) but also with forested valleys and depressions. Plitvice Lakes National Park, which we visited during our last day in Croatia, is a system of sixteen beautiful lakes inter-connected by a…

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