Travel News for Your next Holiday & Vacation in Croatia | Croatia Blog » Nature park http://www.croatia-blog.net/en Croatia Travel Blog provides everything you need to plan your holiday in Croatia including maps, list of beaches, accommodation, culture, transport and weather in Croatia. Learn about popular places to visit in Croatia. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:06:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Kopački rit – Untouched nature close to the city bustle http://www.croatia-blog.net/en/kopacki-rit-%e2%80%93-untouched-nature-close-to-the-city-bustle/ http://www.croatia-blog.net/en/kopacki-rit-%e2%80%93-untouched-nature-close-to-the-city-bustle/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:25:13 +0000 Filip http://www.croatia-blog.net/en/?p=351

Kopački rit is a nature park that stretches across 23.230 acres and is located only a few kilometers from Osijek. This is a unique area in Europe because in it is the biggest natural fish hatchery, habitat of roe deer, well know capital deers and does, beavers, otters, wild boars and feathered game, a real orinthological paradise. In Kopački rit there are 293 species of birds, that make up 78 percent of Croatia's orinthofauna. Here we also have 44 types of fish and more than 2000 different biological species of which many are rare and endangered at a world level. Especially interesting are the birds that nest in colonies and in the park a large number of endangered species such as the black stork or the White-tailed Eagle can be seen.

Kopački rit is a natural «laboratory» which is invaluable and which attracts year after year, more and more visitors, that can have long walks on miles long educational paths which have along them information stands with basic info on important plant and animal species. It is an extremely valuable, natural swamp area, one of the rarest in Europe that represents an extraordinary example of creation and evolution of swamp eco systems and flooded areas. Because of its preserved eco system , biological diversity and extraordinary scientific and biological value, Kopački rit was in 1967. protected with a status of a natural reserve. Nine years later a smaller area of the reserve, 7700 acres, got the status of a special zoo reserve, while the other part was proclaimed a nature park. The international value of Kopački rit was confirmed in 1989. by its inclusion in the ornithologically significant areas and in 1993. got the status of an internationally significant swamp area.

In the heart of the Park is the interesting castle Tikveš, where rooms can be rented.
Source: Croatia.hr

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Plitvice Lakes, a Croatian national park with a beauty that delights numerous visitors from the entire world, has entered the second round of the competition for the new seven wonders of nature. It was among a competition of 261 natural beauties from 222 countries and 77 natural attractions and entered the semifinals based on the votes cast by visitors to the www.new7wonders.com web portal. The campaign has begun in 2007 and votes can be cast via the above website until 7 July.

After the vote counting, an expert jury will elect 21 finalists and leave the final decision to another round of Internet, telephone and SMS voters who can make their final judgment on the seven world wonders of nature until 2011. Often referred to as the most beautiful European garden of preserved beauty, Croatia has eight national parks, Plitvice Lakes being the most popular among them. It consists of sixteen lakes connected by falls. Due to the characteristic karstic base, the waters of Plitvice Lakes are rich in calcium bicarbonate, which is decomposed into calcium carbonate due to water breaking on the barriers. Calcium carbonate is then deposited with the presence of algae, moss and other organisms. All this enables growth of gypsum barriers with magnificent falls splashing over them, their beauty leaving no one indifferent.
The national park, located in the interior of the country but easily accessible from the coastal area thanks to the modern roads, stretches over almost 30 thousand hectares, its prehistoric dense forests accounting for over 22 thousand hectares. The exceptional beauty of the lakes and falls, strolls around the forest paths and over wooden bridges, comfortable hotels and restaurants offering local delicacies attract visitors from across the world throughout the year. Plitvice Lakes are on the UNESCO’s list of world heritage.

Source: press.croatia.hr

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Besides being a favoured spot for sailors, the island of Lastovo has also become a new destination for mini cruisers. The island issituated to the south of the island of Korcula in Dubrovnik-Neretva County and is on account of its luxuriant vegetation numbered among the most wooded islands on the Croatian coast. Because of its rich landscape and culture and biological diversity the Lastovo archipelago, which included 46 islands and rocks was last year proclaimed the 11th nature park in Croatia.

And while the oldest existing written documents concerning Lastovo date to the 6th century, traces of human presence date back to the Stone Age. There are currently as many as 46 chapels on the island, dominant among which are the late Medieval chapels of St. Martin, St. Anthony and St. Blasius and the parish church of SS. Cosma and Damian dating from the year 1473.

Because of its projected position in the Adriatic Sea, traditional Mediterranean architecture and the wealth of its flora and fauna, both of the islands and of the surrounding waters, the Lastovo archipelago is the ideal place to offer all kinds of submarine sports and the various attractions that are offered in the setting of a nature park.

Source: ?Croatia Tourist Board?

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