Plitvice Lakes - National Park Unesco

Plitvice could be known as the Paradise of the water as it has 16 small lakes and multiple waterfalls and streams. Declared a Natural Park by the authorities of the former Yugoslavia in 1949, the Plitvice Lakes have been recognized by UNESCO as a nature reserve since 1979. 

  

 Waterfalls of Plitvice LakesThe Plitvice park has 30,000 acres of unspoiled nature. If you choose to visit during the week and first thing when the "population" of tourists is lower, the contemplation of the highest waterfall in the park, de76 meter free fall, or beech forests produce an effect of peace we can hardly reach tourists disturbing the silence.Plitvice is mostly beech (75%), pretty little fir and pine. In addition, yellow toads, a handful of lynx, deer andowls, all hidden from peaones dePlitvice.In panels Plitvice park entrance is the most frequent word travertine. It refers to the miracle that makes the moss rock is deposited as lime water and lime.The resulting 16 lakes are baptized according to the legends that have drowned in its waters. One is Lake of the Gypsy, the other that of the grandmother is also the Pastor of the Mile, and closer, the greatest of all, that of the Goats. It has 2.5 kilometers long, a distance more than reasonable to sink the optimism of 30 goats that relied too much on the strength of ice to escape the wolves. More prudently, today it is possible to cross by boat.Under these pools are also gems like the curious crayfish Astacus astacus, the material used to coat his shell limestone becoming more stone. And the Proteus, a rare salamander that lives only through these caves, without eyes and some pigmentation, color all flesh, as God brought the world.Plitvice was, according to old maps, "Devil's Garden". Today has regained its splendor of Eden, despite having become another hell during the war when Serb guerrillas kidnapped the park and even threatened to fly its lakes. Fortunately, the blood does not reach the river. Red has never been a dominant color palette showing the broad waters of Plitvice. The color of these lakes can go from gray Finnish mirror pond until the transparent turquoise Caribbean beach. The water changes color from hour to hour and from shore to shore. Everything depends on a thousand factors, including the amount of minerals and organisms of the deep, rain, moss or angle of light.

Aerial view