Plitvice Lakes National Park 🌲 ❄️ Croatia 🇭🇷

With its exceptional natural beauty, this area has always attracted nature lovers, and already on 8 April 1949, it was proclaimed Croatia’s first national park. The process of tufa formation, which results in the building of the tufa, or travertine, barriers and resulted in the creation of the lakes, is a unique universal value, for which the Plitvice Lakes were internationally recognised on 26 October 1979 with their inscription onto the UNESCO World Heritage List. The waters flowing over the limestone and chalk have, over thousands of years, deposited travertine barriers, creating natural dams which in turn have created a series of beautiful lakes, caves and waterfalls. These geological processes continue today. The forests in the park are home to bears, wolves and many rare bird species. The Plitvice lakes are a great place to visit also in the winter season, even if you have already visited it during one of the 3 other seasons I can highly recommend a visit also at the winter season. The best and most spectacular sight is of course when the park is covered in snow, which happens almost every winter. If there have been heavy snowfalls it can happen that the park is closed, but this happens rarely. Other times it happens that only the lower part of the parks is open, which still makes it worthwhile visiting the park. On the website of the national park you can find current opening hours, as well as information about parking and which entrance to use. So in case of snow make sure to check.
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