Paklenica's highest peaks

6 days / 5 nights

Activities: hiking, rafting or canoing, caving.

Locations: Paklenica National Park, Velebit Nature Park, Zadar.

Level: Energy

- Day 1, Monday:

Arrival, transfer to our hotel or pension in Paklenica region.

Welcome drink, dinner.

 

- Day 2, Tuesday: 6/7 hours of hiking, ascent circa 1200 m.

We enter the national park through its "main entrance", the

Velika Paklenica creek. It begins with a fantastic rocky

canyon and while going up along the torrent the vegetation

changes. Progressively, the Mediterranean one gives more

space to pine and beech forest.

We follow the torrent then leave it behind us to join the Vlaski

Grad mountain hut where we will have dinner before spending

the night together in the common dormitory. This hut doesn't

offer much comfort (no mattresses) so it s good to have a

camp pad .

 

- Day 3, Wed. :6/7 hours of hiking, ascent circa 800 meters.

Departure for a succession of the highest peaks, from east to

west.We walk along the ridge offering splendid panoramas,

sometimes on the continental area of Lika, other times on the

Adriatic and its islands, starting with Sveto Brdo (1753m),

Malovan, Vaganski (1757m) the highest top, through Babin Vrh

to finally get to the mountain hut of Struge (1400m), dinner

and night in the refuge. If there are not too many people

around and if we are quiet enough, we might see the bear !

 

- Day 4, Thu. :5/6 hours walk, descent circa 800 meters.

It is with a little tear in the eye that we will leave Struge

refuge to head to the Buljmo pass offering splendid view on

the Velika Paklenica canyon, the Adriatic and its islands.

We will make a beautiful loop in ancient forest, down to the

Ramici hamlet where the last 2 inhabitants of the park live. We

will lodge and have dinner in the neighbouring

shepherd house where the owner will prepare for us the

delicious typical "peka" meal in a joyful ambient.

 

- Day 5, Fri. :2 hours walk, descent 500 m. Rafting or canoing

In the morning we go down the mountain through the majestic

canyon of Velika Paklenica, we will follow the torrent passing

along the foot of the imposing rock of Anica Kuk (more than

400 meters in height) where we will be able to observe ones

climbing it before arriving in Starigrad-Paklenica from where

we'll drive for an hour to the starting point of our adventure of

the day:

Rafting or canoeing depending on the water level on

the famous Zrmanja River within the natural reserve of Velebit!

This river considered as one of the most beautiful karstic

rivers by the Croatian geologists has, during millenniums, dug a

deep canyon sometimes reaching a 300 meters depth. We will

be carried by his current during more than 4 hours across falls,

sedimentary cascades and barriers to a green meadow where

we will have lunch.

Dinner and lodging will take place in an hotel or pension in

Paklenica region.

 

- Day 6, Saturday:

After breakfast and before going to the millennial city of

Zadar, we will stop for a "cave adventure" in the 830 meters

long Modric cave:

Our speleo guide will lead us through secret labyrinths and

narrow passages to spectacular halls where strange host

await us: pipe organs, cuttlefishes, crabs, fairies...

The list of surprises nature and imagination can provide

under the light of carbide lamps is practically unlimited.

After those fascinating 2 hours we'll continue towards Zadar

where we will have lunch. In the afternoon, you will be free to

visit the old town or simply go to the beach. At the end

of the day, transfer to the airport for those who are leaving.

  

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