Jezerce, Croatia - Plitvice Lakes



August 20-22

Plitvice Lakes

Monday, August 20th

Our accommodations: This is a nice, big house with three bedrooms (all double beds). You can tell it's really old from the tiny, Soviet-styled oven, to the only cold water sink in the kitchen, lack of cupboard space, etc. The only really major down side was the smell of mold? mildew? Some very musty smell that permeated the place and was the strongest in the bathroom. The babushka that lived next door and rented the place was as attentive as a mother hen. She would come out whenever we were leaving or returned. She didn't speak any English, but was very kind. She even folded all of our wet clothes that we hung up! Due to the smell, we were happy to leave after two nights.

Tuesday, August 21 Plitvice Lakes
Woke up early to get to Plitvice Lakes around 7am to beat the tourist crowd. Spencer was tired and cried a lot so we had to wait about 20 minutes for him to calm down and get in the car. Then we parked in Entrance 2 when we wanted to do the upper lakes at Entrance 1 first. The ticket line was really long. Anyway, we finally got started around 8am. It was absolutely stunning! Cliffs with like 20 waterfalls coming off it, lakes the most incredible color of blue-green.


Lower falls
Spencer, Kelli, Allison, Dan Brianna and Talmage
This was the most expensive activity we've done so far (the second most expensive thing we've done next to the Sound of Music tour and Spencer was free here!). There were loads of people.
We toured the upper falls that were formed with mineral deposits from about 8am-1pm (Talmage also had an emotional break down and we all waited for about 30 minutes for him to calm down). There are tons of people! Everyone has to walk on the specified paths which makes for slow going.

Our plan worked out perfectly. We got a yummy Italian lunch, visited the grocery store for breakfast the next day, went back to the smelly house and took naps. The kids even had time to play Phase 10 - their new favorite game.:) Then we went back to the park at 4pm, this time to Entrance 2 to see the lower lakes, formed more through erosion. These were also stunning. There's the big waterfall, the caves the kids especially loved and easy walking trails. It was romantic and I'm so glad we went!






                                    Kelli and Allison at the top of a waterfall.

Spencer, Brianna and Allison posing.                                        Twinners!


We returned home around 8pm, got the car topper on, bags packed, and kids in bed.

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