Click 'n' Roll: It's Croatia this time - "Sibenik, Krka National Park"

June 10 2016, it’s Croatia this time.

This was weird for me as the level of excitement and anticipation for this trip was a lot intense than normal. Was this because of a long gap (5 months) since I had been anywhere exciting? Or was it because I would be driving in Croatia (first time)? Whatever it was, the whole process of waiting until I touched the land of Croatia was exhilarating. Even though I love to visit different places and experience different cultures, I was never this excited since Venice. Ahhh…. I love Venice.

Brief itinerary: 4 days; Split and Sibenik.

And of course to accompany me on this delightful trip was my trusty friend Suvexa, who generously proposed the idea of Croatia, booked an apartment, the flights and all the necessary research on Croatia and exchanged money as well. As for me, I just HIRED A CAR!.... [Symbol] Yes, this time I decided to drive rather than use the public transport since we had two locations to cover in 4 days.

While the plane hovered over Split airport to land, I saw numerous mountains which seemed identical to Kathmandu Valley's (aahh...feeling nostalgic). Thankfully, it had stopped raining in Split as we made our way through wet tarmac with a clearer sky, scorching sun and fresh breeze. It was refreshing...but I had to pee...desperately... and a funny thing happened. As I was in the toilet one woman sprinted in the men's toilet. Hmm...now that I think about it, its not funny; you gotta go when you gotta go.

Frist stop Sibenik, Krka National Park.

Spacestar (mitsubishi), that’s our car; small, economical and efficient. Everything was fine until I realized it was manual, steering on the left and gear in the right, and had to drive on the right lane. Let me just point out, I am from the UK where we drive on the left and steer from the right. Suvexa was sceptical about me driving and already started to regret but I drove like a champ, with just some hiccups here and there. It sort of didn’t help as we had to use mountain narrow roads, however, the scenery was breathtaking which I only saw through my peripheral views. Suvexa strictly instructed me to keep my eyes on the road as my driving was conspicuously awkward. I think I might have went a wee bit off the road once. It's all hazy to me...lol.

That's our little Spacestar and the beautiful apartment with its own little fruit and veg garden, located parallel to Krka national Park. After a quick tour of the apartment, we went for an early dinner. I think the journey from the airport drained us, especially my driving :). Initially, the plan was to visit Krka the next day but we were so impatient to check out this National Park that we heard so much about. We had about 2 hours before the closing time at Krka; we decided to have a quick look around to locate the perfect spot to park the Spacestar for the next day.

Boy...O...boy...,Holy...mother...of...god... it was the most stunning view I had ever encountered.

Note: The following pictures do no justice for the actual beauty of the place.

That's a map for ya.

Next day: we decided to walk instead as the park only allows cars after 5pm. We had already seen all the picturesque area the day before so, we marched straight to swim under the falls.

Saw these people jumping rope with kids after a boat excursion. This national park is really big! Took about 20 mins to half-hour to get to this little island monastery, Visovac.

Found another cascading waterfall whilst on route to Roski Slap via Medu grede Canyon and later found out that the waterfall is called Roski Slap. Silly me...