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PLITVICE LAKES - Bus excursion

You are most welcome to join trip to the 16 lakes flowing down natural staircases, one into another, and creating magnificent falls amid untouched wilderness located on 20 000 hectares of national park. Park under UNESCO patronage from 1979 as invaluable natura beauty. Bright rapids, naturarally formed curtains and channels, charming wilderness, with impenetrable forests where some rare have found their shelter; harmony of Nature which, during long centuries, has modelled mighty waterfalls with, on top of them all, 75- metre high, unmatched Fall of Plitvice.

The lakes are renowned for their distinctive colours, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue. The colours change constantly depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the angle of sunlight.

The Plitvice Lakes national park is heavily forested, mainly with beech, spruce, and fir trees, and features a mixture of Alpine and Mediterranean vegetation. It has a notably wide variety of plant communities, due to its range of microclimates, differing soils and varying levels of altitude.

The Plitvice Lakes lie in a basin of karstic rock, mainly dolomite and limestone, which has given rise to their most distinctive feature. The lakes are separated by natural dams of travertine, which is deposited by the action of moss, algae and bacteria. The encrusted plants and bacteria accumulate on top of each other, forming travertine barriers which grow at the rate of about 1 cm per year.