Active tourism Island Mljet

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.

In the south dalamatian archipelago, paralell to an esat part of the peninsula of Pelješac is situated the most southern and more eastern of the Croatian largest islands - Mljet.

The island of Mljet is 37 km long and has an avarage amplitude of 3km. The oldest sources in which is mentioned the island of Mljet, under the name of Melita (Melite), are bounded to a Greek history. Among many Greek writers namely, at the beginning of the IV.century B.C., is mentioned the name of Mljet. Even the Homer's story of the Itaka's king Ulysses is connected to the island of Mljet. The story tell's that after the shipwreck, Ulysses swam till the nearest island on which he found a shelter in a cave where later the nymph Clipso trapped him. It's considerated that the island in question was Mljet. After the Greeks, Mljet recives it's first permanent habitants the Iliryans, who came from the Peljesac peninsula and the valley of Neretva. From that period are conserved many historic and cultural monuments (emblems, forts), while from the Roman...