No Moss For Us

For our last morning in Zadar, we had one final round of a rich, flaky pastries and sweet ripe cherries before hitting the road. We drove a couple hours to our next outdoor adventure: Krka National Park. Similar to Plitvice Lakes National Park, Krka is a huge park that is home to a number of stunning waterfalls.

One thing we noticed online is that almost all commentary on Plitvice vs. Krka seems to award Plitvice first prize. We’d like to buck this trend and put a stake in the ground: Krka was definitely our favorite of the two! Here’s why:

• The first distinction is that Krka is a waterfall national park, while Plitvice is a lakes national park that has several waterfalls (we like waterfalls better!);
• Second, the boardwalks are different — Krka’s boardwalks wind through more of a jungle with bird song overhead and swift torrents underfoot, while Plitvice’s boardwalks are often open and next to sheer rock walls (we like jungles better!);
• And third, Krka’s waterfalls are wide and powerful, as opposed to Plitvice’s tall precipice falls (hooray powerful torrents!).

All in all, we loved it! Grant had actually been to Krka 8 years earlier as part of a cruise with the Boyadjian clan, and was relieved to find it just as incredible just under a decade later!

Without further ado, see the Krka ‘earth porn’ pictures below:

And our favorite part of all: you get to swim in the pool near the falls!

 

At the end of our Krka visit, we had a decision: climb back up the 875m path we had taken down to the boardwalks and falls OR wait for one of the park shuttle buses to pick us up. As with any important decision, we used a centuries old method: we rock-paper-scissor’d for it! With that, we learned another valuable lesson: none wins when you RPS for uphill climbs:

 

We then drove another hour to Split where we had a satisfyingly seafood-filled dinner and strolled the Riva before calling it a well deserved night!

-G & J