Hiking in heaven at Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes

When I told my friend that Dave and I would be travelling to Croatia she suggested we visit Plitvice Lakes. I had never heard of it before and aside from being the oldest national park in southeast Europe and the largest in Croatia, the guide book covered it in only a couple of pages. The park covers almost 300km² although the walk around the perimeter of the lakes is about 20km. This is a bit much to do in a day [...]