Cycling

Visit the Pliva lakes and traditional watermills

A half-day upstream of Jajce to the turquoise Pliva lakes and the old wooden watermills at Mlinčići — the gentle, photogenic counterpoint to the town’s fortress and waterfall.

Jajce

Camp in the national park — Camp Buk and the riverside sites

Sleep inside the park: Camp Buk’s 10,000 m² of Una riverbank at Kulen Vakuf — room for 200 pitches, bungalows and a riverside restaurant — plus the quiet sites toward Martin Brod, with the waterfalls as your alarm clock.

Una National Park

Swim and Snorkel at Cape Kamenjak

Spend a day on the wild coves of the Kamenjak headland — swimming, snorkelling and cliff-jumping in clear, protected water.

Pula

E-bike the Parenzana to Grožnjan

An e-bike loop on the old railway bed from below Motovun to the artist village of Grožnjan and back — tunnels, valley views and two hilltops.

Motovun

Cycling the Konavle Valley

Ride the flat green floor of the Konavle valley below the Sniježnica ridge — Dubrovnik’s rural hinterland of stone villages, the Ljuta river mills and Konavoski dvori — an easy half-day by bike from the coast.

Dubrovnik

Taste Pošip and Grk at the Cellars

Taste the native Pošip and Grk white wines of Korčula at the island cellars, with seafood and olive oil.

Korčula

Hike Hum above Vela Luka

Climb the olive-grove hill behind Vela Luka to the abandoned Habsburg fortress on Hum — the island’s best west-end viewpoint over Hvar, Lastovo and the open Adriatic.

Korčula

Cycle the Lakes Circuit

Ride the flat forest trail around the Great Lake — the classic Mljet experience, an hour of shade, water views and swimming stops that suits every level of rider.

Mljet

Cycling the Pelješac Wine Road

Ride the length of the wine country — the quiet road over the ridge from Ston through Potomje’s cellars to the channel villages, with the Dingač tunnel as its tunnel-gate.

Pelješac

Cycling the Konavle Valley from Cavtat

Ride from the coast into the Konavle valley — the fertile plain behind Cavtat of stone villages, fields, cycle paths and vineyard rows — on a half-day loop.

Cavtat

Motorcycle Ride: The Konavle Loop and Adriatic Highway

A short, curvy coastal-plain loop from Cavtat over the Konavle valley and back along the Adriatic Highway (D8) — thirty to sixty kilometres of road built for two wheels.

Cavtat

Cycle the forest roads and marked trails of the park

A mountain-bike or cycling ride on the forest roads and marked trails of Kozara, through the beech and fir woodland that covers the mountain — on permitted, recognised routes under current park conditions.

Kozara National Park

Hike or mountain-bike the Tajan massif

A hiking or mountain-biking day on the Tajan massif south of Zavidovići, using the established routes of the natural monument and the local information at the Kamenica recreation area.

Zavidovići

Hike from Stabna to the Stabanska Lakes

Hike from the village of Stabna up to the Stabanska Lakes — a pair of glacial lakes in a high basin of the Piva mountains, a proper mountain outing demanding navigation, kit and judgement, with no guaranteed swimming, guides or vehicle access.

Plužine & Piva

Walk around Lake Bled

The full circuit of Slovenia’s most famous lake — a roughly six-kilometre, largely level path through every face of Bled, from the grand eastern shore to the quiet western woods.

Bled

Walk the shores of Lake Bohinj

A flexible lakeshore walk on Slovenia’s largest natural permanent lake — a chosen section of the roughly eleven-kilometre shoreline rather than a guaranteed full circuit, shortened or extended with the weather, the trail conditions and the available transport.

Bohinj

The Parenzana Cycling Trail

The gravel bed of a 1902 narrow-gauge railway, reborn as one of Europe’s most scenic cycling routes — passing directly below Motovun.

Motovun

Kopački Rit (from Osijek)

A vast floodplain wetland at the confluence of the Drava and the Danube, one of the most important bird reserves in Europe, a short drive north of Osijek.

Osijek

Great & Small Lakes

Two inland salt lakes linked to the open sea by the narrow Soline channel — the warmest, most sheltered swimming on Mljet and the geographic heart of the national park.

Mljet

Stabanska Lakes and Piva Nature Park

The Stabanska Lakes are a pair of glacial lakes high in the Piva mountains, reached via Stabna on a separately planned mountain outing with possible gravel and forest sections. They are a proper mountain destination — cover mud, stream levels, snow, navigation, daylight and turning back, and do not guarantee swimming or vehicle access.

Plužine & Piva

Mostnica Gorge and Voje Valley

The gorge of the Mostnica river above Stara Fužina — potholes, rapids and the elephant-trunk rock arch carved by the water, with the optional longer continuation into the glacial Voje Valley to its twenty-one-metre waterfall.

Bohinj

Vogel Cable Car and Alpine Viewpoint

A conditional mountain extension above the western end of Lake Bohinj — the cable car from Ukanc to a viewpoint at about 1,535 metres, a thousand metres above the lake, with views over the Bohinj basin and the Julian Alps to Triglav.

Bohinj

Kozjak Waterfall

A column of water falling into an emerald pool inside a rocky amphitheatre — the Soča Valley’s most perfect small waterfall, above Kobarid.

Soča Valley

Biodiversum and Haff Réimech Nature Reserve

The Biodiversum nature centre and the Haff Réimech nature reserve at Remerschen — a protected wetland landscape of former gravel pits beside the Moselle, with exhibitions, birdlife and marked nature routes.

Schengen & Luxembourg Moselle

The Beaches — Costa Azzurra to Grado Pineta

Three kilometres of south-facing golden sand in four beach zones — Costa Azzurra, the GIT main beach, Città Giardino and the pine-shaded Pineta — with shallow warm water made for children.

Grado

The Ramparts, the Donato Bastion & the Underground Galleries

Four kilometres of green rampart-ring to walk or cycle — bastions, countermine galleries and the €3 route through the Rivellino tunnel and the Donato bastion.

Palmanova

The Rimini Railway at Serravalle

The Rimini–San Marino narrow-gauge railway of 1932–1944 ran through the Serravalle territory on its climb from the plain — the line’s station at Serravalle and the sequence of tunnels on the mountainside survive as the most substantial railway remains in the Republic, from the plain-side portals to the high cutting above the town.

Serravalle & Dogana

Vashon Island

The quirky one: an unbridged island of back roads, farm stands and artist studios between Seattle and Tacoma — the bike-isle par excellence, with the state’s oldest cider house, a strawberry festival and a bias for doing things its own way.

Bainbridge, Whidbey & the Central Sound Islands

Roche Harbor & the Historic North End

A company town of the lime era turned storybook resort: the Hotel de Haro (1886) where Teddy Roosevelt stayed, the formal formal gardens, the quarry ruins and the nightly colors ceremony that lowers the flags of three nations at sunset.

The San Juan Islands

Lopez Island & Iceberg Point

The friendly flat island: Lopez’s wave-to-strangers lanes and farm stands by bike, then the south end’s Iceberg Point hike — a basalt headland of sculpted rocks and whale-waters at the archipelago’s southern gate.

The San Juan Islands

Point Defiance Park

760 acres of old-growth forest, bluffs and beaches on a peninsula the city wisely never cut: the five-mile drive through the firs, Owen Beach’s saltwater lawn, the Point’s lighthouse and ferry, and the zoo and aquarium at the gate.

Tacoma & the South Sound

Elwha River Restoration Valley

The world’s greatest dam-removal story, walkable: the Elwha runs free again through the recovering valley — salmon redds in the gravel bars, lakebeds turned meadows, and the mountains closing the head of the glen.

Port Angeles & Hurricane Ridge