Activities, things to do National parks Croatia

Active tourism is a temporary travel and stay, which is the main motive for recreation, outside his residence. Because of the need to participate in physical activities, visits and desires for watching various sporting events or any active or passive involvement in sporting activities on a personal level or the organized tourist destination for tourists prepare a variety of sports and recreational offerings. Thus, the capacity of accommodations are sports fields, gyms, fitness gym and other sports and recreational facilities are increasingly under the control of professional trainers. For lovers of active tourism prepared various adventure specialties such as rafting, kayaking, scuba diving, paragliding, climbing the cliffs of mountains, diving the depths of the sea, the wild nature cycling, caving, air tourism and other ordinary and unusual sports. The nature of man's movement, and accelerated pace of life, stress and more sitting and not moving during the work, on vacation people make up sport.

A national park is a larger area of phenomenal natural qualities which contains one or more eco-systems completely preserved and/or moderately affected by humans. Only traditional agricultural and tourist-recreational activities are allowed.
Croatia has eight national parks; National Park Brijuni, National Park Kornati, National Park Krka, National Park Plitvice lakes, National Park Mljet, National Park Risnjak, National Park North Velebit and National Park Paklenica. The location of these National Parks clearly outlines the natural diversity of Croatia. Three of these parks are particularly mountainous- Risnjak, Paklenica and North Velebit, three are made up of islands- Kornati, Mljet and Brijuni, the leftover two are a clear example of rich, rocky hydrographs - Plitvice lakes and Krka.
The National Park Risnjak was declared a National Park in 1953. Its character is defined buy the fact that in a small area, within Gorski Kotar, several types of climate intertwine: harsh alpine climate, gentle Adriatic climate, continental characteristics of the Panonian Valley and the mountainous chill of the Dinarida. Risnjak has a meaningful role in health tourism and is especially attractive for excursions...