“Moun­ta­ins & Sea”

Day 1: Mee­ting point
We meet at Camp Omišalj, which is loca­ted right by the sea. This is an oppor­tu­nity to get to know each other, exch­ange expe­ri­en­ces and ask the guide ques­ti­ons about the tour. Of course, you can also swim in the Adria­tic Sea. All the amen­i­ties of this first-class camp are available to you on the day of arri­val. A joint din­ner is plan­ned for the evening.

Day 2: Pan­o­r­amic tour with a view of the Kvar­ner Bay
Depar­ture is sche­du­led daily at 9:00 am. Before depar­ture, there is a short brie­fing about the day ahead. The jour­ney takes you along the pan­o­r­amic road “Oči Vino­dola”, which offers six pic­tures­que view­points. The road is mostly asphal­ted and winds its way up in nar­row hair­pin bends. The road con­ti­nues below the wind tur­bi­nes and there will be an oppor­tu­nity to stop under one of them and feel the power of these giants.

Day 3: Vele­bit — Dabar­ski Kukovi
The route takes us along a paved road through a dense beech forest along the bor­der of the Nor­t­hern Vele­bit Natio­nal Park. We reach the Veliki Alan moun­tain pass, from where a breath­ta­king view of the Adria­tic opens up. The route con­ti­nues through the beau­tiful “Dabar­ski Kukovi” moun­tain ridge. We end the day at Camp Vele­bit, which is stron­gly remi­nis­cent of the Shire from the “Lord of the Rings” film tri­logy.

Day 4: Panos — Nikola Tesla — Wild­cam­ping
From 950 meters above sea level, we des­cend to the Lika pla­teau, from where we drive to the moun­tain peak of Panos. This was once the site of a mili­tary radar sta­tion that moni­to­red almost half of the airspace of the for­mer Yugo­sla­via. We hurry on to a brief visit to the birth­place of Nikola Tesla, the grea­test inven­tor in the field of elec­tri­city, before sto­cking up on food and other neces­si­ties in Gos­pić. This time, we set up camp for the night by a lake.

Day 5: Majs­tor­ska Cesta — Win­ne­tou — Zrmanja Can­yon
We drive up the con­ti­nen­tal side of the Majs­tor­ska Cesta (Mas­ter­piece Road). The name is deri­ved from the Ger­man word “Meis­ter­stück” (mas­ter­piece), as it was built in a very short time at the begin­ning of the 19th cen­tury and the gra­di­ent is nowhere more than 5%, which is still above the stan­dards of modern road con­s­truc­tion. What is important for Ger­mans is that this is the film­ing loca­tion of the first Win­ne­tou film based on Karl May’s book, which is why many Ger­mans also call the road “Win­ne­tou­straße”. The route con­ti­nues to the vil­lage of Rovan­jska, where there will also be an oppor­tu­nity to switch on the four-wheel dri­ves in the cars, and from there we rush on to the Zrmanja river can­yon, on the banks of which we will spend the night in the camp.

Day 6: Krupa Monas­tery — Tul­ove Grede — Gračac
From the camp, we head to the Krupa River, where we will visit the Ortho­dox monas­tery of the same name. We con­ti­nue to Majs­tor­ska Cesta, but this time we climb from the sea side, and after the ascent to the Mali Alan pass, we ride along the ridge of sou­thern Vele­bit to the town of Gračac, where we spend the night in the camp. In Gračac, those who did not refuel in Gos­pić now have the oppor­tu­nity to do so.

Day 7: Zrmanja spring — Cetina spring — Lake Peruča
From Gračac, we drive a few kilo­me­ters to the rail­road line that con­nects Zagreb with Knin and take the ser­vice road. The road and the rail­road line are loca­ted on an almost ver­ti­cal cliff, at the bot­tom of which, 300 meters deep, lies the source of the Zrmanja River. We stop in the royal town of Knin to rep­le­nish our sup­plies before con­ti­nuing to the source of the river Krka. The source of the Krka River is only visi­ble in sum­mer, as the small Krčić River then dries up, flowing over a water­fall right into the source of the Krka River. When the Krčić River is flowing, the source of the Krka is not visi­ble. We con­ti­nue to ano­ther spring, the source of the Cetina River, which forms the majo­rity of the water mass that flows into Lake Peruča, where we will spend the night in the camp.

A joint din­ner is plan­ned for the end of the trip.

Day 8: End of the jour­ney

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