Active tourism Supetarska Draga
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.
About 6 km far away from the city of Rab, as a natural extention to the Mundanija valley, embracing the bay in which it's situated there is Supetarska Draga. The place recived its name from the church and benedictine abbey of St. Peter which date back in the XI. century. The curch/basilica of St. Peter is the oldest romanic curch in Croatia and with its beauty attracts worshippers and art lovers.
The Draga valley is divided in two parts: Gornja (upper) and Donja (lower) Draga. The proximity of the islands of Maman, Sridnjak and Sailovac and the presence of many bays are especially attractive to yachtsman. Supetarska Draga is known for its sandy beaches, clear sea and wind protected bays. As those they attract many tourist, especially families with kids.
But not only the tourist enjoy in the beaches of Draga. Here are situated many birds that came because of the extremly positive climatic conditions and make their nests or they decide to spend the winter here.
The local people are oriented to the sea and it's known as a...