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Active tourism Plitvice lakes

 

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.

The National Park Plitvice lakes was declared a national park in 1949 and it is one of the oldest and largest national parks in Croatia as well as under the rotection of UNESCO since 1979.
It is located in between Male Kapele and Pljesevice in Lika. Plitvice lakes are a unique natural phenomenon- 16 picturesques lakes which are connected by a number of cascading waterfalls. These lakes are divided on the upper (12) and the lower (4) lakes. The highest lake is Proscansko at 639m and the lowest is Novakovica Brod at 503m. The Upper lakes are surrounded by lush woods and connected to one another by a number of waterfalls, the lower lakes are smaller, shallower and surrounded by lesser vegetation. The lake water, after the Sastavci falls in the lower lakes, pours into the River Korana which the Plitvice stream also flows into, falling from a height of 76m.
The climate is mountainous and the best time to visit the Park is in the summer months, although the winter months are provide the magnificent picture of frozen...

 

Active tourism Plitvice lakes Offer