Fishing

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 spend a day on the Adriatic in Neum

A day in and beside the water of Neum Bay — swimming from the town’s small beaches and bathing platforms, resting on the shore, and eating fish beside the sea on the country’s only coast.

Neum

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

Rovinj Old Town and Batana Heritage Walk

A guided-route heritage walk from the working harbour and the House of Batana, through Balbi’s Arch and up Grisia Street to the Church of St Euphemia, tracing Rovinj’s former-island street plan, Venetian past and living batana fishing culture.

Rovinj

Rovinj Harbour, Market and Istrian Flavours Walk

A central food-and-culture walk through Rovinj’s working harbour, market area and nearby pedestrian streets, connecting the town’s fishing and batana heritage with Istrian seafood, olive oil, truffles, Malvasia and Teran.

Rovinj

Sunset at Savudrija Cape

The coast-road drive to Croatia’s oldest lighthouse for sunset over the open sea toward Italy — with fish at the konoba by the light.

Umag

Walk the Village and Bathe in the Pools

Walk the lanes above the cascades and bathe in the village pools — the Rastoke alternative to no-bathing Plitvice.

Slunj & Rastoke

Walk the Gacka River Valley

Walk or fish the Gacka, Lika’s crystal-clear spring-fed river — one of Europe’s famous trout streams, running quietly through the karst fields south of Gospić.

Gospić

The Slavonian Table

Kulen, čvarak, fish paprikash and the oldest brewery in Croatia — the food culture that makes Osijek a destination for eaters.

Osijek

Fish Paprikash & the Baranja Table

Fish paprikash cooked over open fire, gator cellar wines and the white draught horses — the food culture of Baranja.

Baranja

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

Cycle the East End: Lumbarda and the Wine Roads

Flat, quiet riding through the vineyards and villages of eastern Korčula — the old town to Lumbarda’s sandy beaches and Grk cellars, with easy extensions to Račišće.

Korčula

Sunset on the Great Lake

Stay past the last day boat: the park at dusk — empty lake, the islet in gold light and total quiet — is the experience day-trippers never get.

Mljet

Camping on Pelješac

Camp by the wind at Viganj, by the walls at Ston or by the quiet north shore — the peninsula’s campsites put every Pelješac day within reach.

Pelješac

Camping the Konavle Coast: the Molunat Auto Camps

Cavtat itself has no campsite — the region’s camping lives 20 km south in Molunat, a small fishing village at the tip of the Konavle coast, where simple auto camps sit right on the shore.

Cavtat

Use Bihać as your base for the Una valley and the Krajina

Bihać is the natural base for exploring Una National Park and the wider Krajina — the town where the rafting operators are based, where the park gates are closest, and from which the river valley and the region open out in every direction.

Bihać

Krupa River & Wetland Channels

The main watercourse carrying water from the Hutovo Blato wetland towards the Neretva, connected with the park's channels and lakes.

Hutovo Blato Nature Park

Old Town

A maze of pastel houses, cobbled lanes and artists’ studios on the steep slopes leading up from the harbour to St Euphemia’s church.

Rovinj

Batana Ecomuseum and Spacio Matika

A community ecomuseum centred on the batana, Rovinj’s traditional flat-bottomed fishing boat, with the House of Batana interpretation centre and the preserved Spacio Matika tavern.

Rovinj

Grisia Street and Artists’ Quarter

The steep stone street climbing through the Old Town toward St Euphemia, lined with small studios, galleries and crafts and known for its open-air art exhibition.

Rovinj

Rovinj City Museum and Califfi Palace

The city museum in the Baroque Califfi Palace beside Rovinj’s main square, holding local archaeology, history, ethnography and modern and contemporary art.

Rovinj

Decumanus & Roman Old Town

The main Roman street still running through the old town, lined with medieval and Venetian façades.

Poreč

Old Town Peninsula

The compact Venetian core on its own peninsula — harbour walls, the Church of the Assumption and lanes that end at the sea.

Umag

Veli Lošinj — the Garden Village

A small amphitheatre of villas, gardens and a fishing harbour in a deep southern bay — the 19th-century spa quarter of the “healing island”.

Lošinj

Kopački Rit (from Osijek)

One of Europe’s great inland wetlands — a Danube floodplain of reeds, lakes and 300 bird species, 20 minutes from the city.

Osijek

Kopački rit Nature Park

One of Europe’s most valuable wetlands — an intact Danube-Drava floodplain of 300 bird species, wooden trails and boat safaris.

Baranja

Bansko brdo Wine Hills

The loess wine hill of Baranja — gator cellars dug into the slopes, Graševina and Frankovka, and the Suza–Kneževi Vinogradi wine road.

Baranja

Kornati Gateway & Marinas

The marinas of Biograd are the classic gateway to the Kornati archipelago — 89 bare islands of stone and sea in a national park.

Biograd na Moru

Pakleni Islands

The archipelago off Hvar town — a dozen pine-covered islets with the famous beaches, lagoons and yacht bays of the Adriatic season.

Hvar

Vis Town & Komiža

The two faces of Vis: the quiet Greek-Roman-Austrian town on the north bay, and Komiža — the Adriatic’s great fishing harbour under its amphitheatre of hills.

Vis

Vela Spila & Vela Luka

A gaping prehistoric cave above Vela Luka holding one of the Adriatic’s most important Mesolithic and Neolithic records, in a west-end bay town of rivas and rocky beaches.

Korčula

Trpanj & the North Shore

The ferry port and quiet north shore — empty pebble coves, the little port of Trpanj and the drivable emptiness of the peninsula’s far side.

Pelješac