Northern Croatia walking holiday
Highlights
Walking tour of Zagreb old town | Plitvice Lakes National Park | North Velebit Natonal Park | Paklenica National Park | Paklenica Gorge | Starigrad Paklenica | Krupa Canyon | Local sheep and goat cheese tasting | Krka National Park | Zadar | Split |Description of Northern Croatia walking holiday
Croatia’s northern coastline, with a tranquil, Mediterranean ambience, is an idyllic destination for a walking tour. Dotted with handsome medieval towns and villages, wild and achingly beautiful national parks, cascading waterfalls and blessed with a sunny climate, it’s perhaps a surprise that the Adriatic has to-date flown a little under the radar with walkers looking for new adventures.This small group trip, led by a professional local guide, will see you begin in Croatia’s beautiful capital, Zagreb, and finish in the harbour town of Split. In between, you’ll walk around the gorgeous, UNESCO-listed Plitvice Lakes National Park, a forested reserve where 16 lakes threaded with waterfalls lead into a limestone canyon – it must be one of the most photogenic locations in all of Croatia.
You’ll also trek in the spectacular Velebit Mountains, the rugged Paklenica National Park, Krupa Canyon, and around Krka National Park too. All told, this is a simply stunning destination for walkers, with reasonable challenge to be expected with a few steep ascents, but regular walkers will find it an absolute joy.
Croatia is right now one of Europe’s most popular places for a holiday – this tour lets you see a whole new side to it, in a region that sees relatively few visitors and which, we’re confident, will soon earn a big reputation. Expect to be wowed.
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Responsible tourism
As the pioneers of responsible tourism, we screen every trip so you can travel knowing your holiday will help support conservation and local people.
Tourism is the world's fastest growing industry. Traveling to far flung places gives us a wonderful opportunity to experience cultures that are so different from our own. But with the wondrous joy of travel comes the responsibility of ensuring that we do not adversely affect those countries that we visit. In a nutshell, Responsible Travel is about ensuring that you, as travelers, and we, as a promoter of travel:-respect the local culture
-do not inadvertently introduce new social ills and
-promote & practice environmental responsibility in the places that we visit.
That way, you enjoy a unique and memorable experience as well as authentic cross-cultural exchange and our local resources, cultures and customs are protected.
Our environmental policy:
We recycle all our waste paper.
Our correspondence and promotion is carried out via the internet and email, minimizing the amount of paper used for our activities.
We use established, locally-owned and run accommodation wherever possible and aim to leave sites in better condition than we find them.
Our vehicle fleet is managed to minimise environmental impact.
Our group sizes are small, helping minimise cultural and environmental impact.
We monitor our impact, and where necessary alter our programmes accordingly.
We always abide by site-specific guidelines pertaining to flora and fauna.
Visiting NP Plitivice Lakes you will be the witness of specific geology, geomorphology and hydrology it truly is one of the most impressive karst entities in the world. Specific hydrology properties of rock have enabled water retention on Triassic dolomite rocks, as well as canyon formation by water cutting through Cretaceous limestone deposits. Tufa barriers are a phenomenon enabling water to remain inside the lakes.
The Impacts of this Trip
All our staff are locally employed and all our guides are, ensuring a more authentic experience for travelers, as well as sensitivity to local customs and culture. Guides are part of local sports clubs and except at the guiding job they are active in free time. On our biking and hiking trips we are helping local community with the marking bike trails and hiking paths to make more secure trips. Also all our guides have mission to take the garbage where ever they see it (on the sea, river, mountain...).
We also involve local communities in remote areas that we travel to. On our trip to NP Paklenica we are offering specific Croatian dish "Peka" known as "food under the bell". Peka is a Baked dish with meat and vegetables made in a pot or a tray, the pot is put into the embers of a fireplace, in many houses here in Dalmatia, especially on the country side, you have a special place in the barn or at the ground floor of the house for preparing the Peka. One of this places is at small village Ramica Dvori in middle of canyon of NP Paklenica. This way we are supporting local economy and small business comaparing traditional cusine and culture with hiking trip and ensuring that financial benefits remain in local community.
Our accommodation is mostly provided in small hotels, guest houses or apartments. On all our tours we use local produce and provide local-style meals, and we encourage our guests to try local dishes and delicacies. In small family hotel Degenija we are offering our customers fresh trout from Plitivce lakes area as a traditional food.
Tourism is the world's fastest growing industry. Traveling to far flung places gives us a wonderful opportunity to experience cultures that are so different from our own. But with the wondrous joy of travel comes the responsibility of ensuring that we do not adversely affect those countries that we visit. In a nutshell, Responsible Travel is about ensuring that you, as travelers, and we, as a promoter of travel:-respect the local culture
-do not inadvertently introduce new social ills and
-promote & practice environmental responsibility in the places that we visit.
That way, you enjoy a unique and memorable experience as well as authentic cross-cultural exchange and our local resources, cultures and customs are protected.
Our environmental policy:
We recycle all our waste paper.
Our correspondence and promotion is carried out via the internet and email, minimizing the amount of paper used for our activities.
We use established, locally-owned and run accommodation wherever possible and aim to leave sites in better condition than we find them.
Our vehicle fleet is managed to minimise environmental impact.
Our group sizes are small, helping minimise cultural and environmental impact.
We monitor our impact, and where necessary alter our programmes accordingly.
We always abide by site-specific guidelines pertaining to flora and fauna.
Visiting NP Plitivice Lakes you will be the witness of specific geology, geomorphology and hydrology it truly is one of the most impressive karst entities in the world. Specific hydrology properties of rock have enabled water retention on Triassic dolomite rocks, as well as canyon formation by water cutting through Cretaceous limestone deposits. Tufa barriers are a phenomenon enabling water to remain inside the lakes.
The Impacts of this Trip
All our staff are locally employed and all our guides are, ensuring a more authentic experience for travelers, as well as sensitivity to local customs and culture. Guides are part of local sports clubs and except at the guiding job they are active in free time. On our biking and hiking trips we are helping local community with the marking bike trails and hiking paths to make more secure trips. Also all our guides have mission to take the garbage where ever they see it (on the sea, river, mountain...).
We also involve local communities in remote areas that we travel to. On our trip to NP Paklenica we are offering specific Croatian dish "Peka" known as "food under the bell". Peka is a Baked dish with meat and vegetables made in a pot or a tray, the pot is put into the embers of a fireplace, in many houses here in Dalmatia, especially on the country side, you have a special place in the barn or at the ground floor of the house for preparing the Peka. One of this places is at small village Ramica Dvori in middle of canyon of NP Paklenica. This way we are supporting local economy and small business comaparing traditional cusine and culture with hiking trip and ensuring that financial benefits remain in local community.
Our accommodation is mostly provided in small hotels, guest houses or apartments. On all our tours we use local produce and provide local-style meals, and we encourage our guests to try local dishes and delicacies. In small family hotel Degenija we are offering our customers fresh trout from Plitivce lakes area as a traditional food.
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