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Nacionalni Park Plitvička Jezera – Plitvice Lakes National Park – Croatia

Properties inscribed on the World Heritage List – Croatia – Plitvice Lakes National Park 1979

Placed 3th in A WILDERNESS SOMEWHERE Group – Your First Work Submitted To The Wilderness Group Challenge April – 09 – 2013

Challenge Winner in Artists Universe Group – LITTLE LAKE IN MOUNTAINS Challenge December – 07 – 2012

Featured in #1 Favorites Group June – 15 – 2012

Challenge Winner in 1 Favorites Group – Host’s Choice Challenge 1 June – 15 – 2012

Featured in Nature’s Paintbrush Group July – 20 – 2011

Placed 3th in The Mysterious Balkans Group – Gorgeous Balkan Waters – Lakes & Rivers Challenge July – 12 – 2011

Featured in The World As We See It , or as we missed it Group October – 13 – 2010

Featured in All Parks Group July – 18 – 2010

Challenge Winner in Lakes and Inland Waterways – Featured in May Challenge June – 09 – 2010

Placed 2nd in All Parks Group – PARK in EUROPE ONLY Challenge June – 02 – 2010

Featured in All Parks Group May – 30 – 2010

Featured in Lakes and Inland Waterways Group May – 07 – 2010

Featured in Historic Places Group September – 01 – 2009

Featured in The Mysterious Balkans Group September – 01 – 2009

Featured Members in The Mysterious Balkans Group

Challenge Winner in The Mysterious Balkans Group – Croatia Challenge Agoust – 31 – 2009

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Plitvice Lakes

Nestled in a cluster of lush mountains is a mysterious ancient forest known as the “Devil’s Garden,” where the olm, lynx, black stork, and Ural owl live together in an enchanted world of thunderous waterfalls, cascading lakes, and subterranean caverns. Not long ago, mankind nearly destroyed this land with warfare. But nature has found an ingenious way to rejuvenate this land, almost as if by miracle.

This Eden is Plitvice Lakes National Park, the oldest national park in Europe, located in Croatia’s Dinaric Mountains. Plundered during the Balkan War in the early 1990’s, Plitvice owes its new existence to a type of limestone called travertine, which has the ability to grow quickly and continuously, creating new pools and barriers, water slides, and cascades. There are 16 falling lakes arranged in breathtaking terraces, connected by countless waterfalls and rapids.

Underneath the Dinaric Mountains, rainwater gathers and rushes through subterranean caverns, drawing lime from the stone. Here, stalactites hang and species dwell that are so rare and strange they defy the imagination.