Excursions

We give you opportunity to make the round trip to the most beautiful part of the Croatian part of Adriatic Sea, National Park Kornati.

The boat organized excursions include whole day round-trip, a fish picnic in the Vodice archipelago and a visit to the Kornati islands. National Park Kornati occupies the area of about 230 km2 and consists of 89 islands, islets and reefs.This interesting relief structure - unique symphony of cliff islands which face the open sea - is highly protected, as well as the living nature, animals and plants in the sea and on the land.

We will show you not only brightness of natural values; number of cliffs, rocks, capes, small and big islands, but also mystical dimension of Kornati, its parts of ancient history - archeological findings, which date from Roman Empire.Find out why they are Croatian jewel of untouched and protected nature.

NATIONAL PARK KORNATI

Kornati Islands General information KORNATSKI OTOCI (Kornati Islands), the largest and densest archipelago in the Adriatic Sea; consists of 147 islands, islets and reefs comprising an area of 69 sq km, scattered at an area of 234 sq km. They stretch in the length of about 35 km and the width of 13 km, between the island of Dugi Otok in the north-west and the island of Zirje in the south-east, as well as between the islands of Pasman, Vrgada and Murter in the north and the north-east. They were named after Kornat, the biggest island (32.62 sq km). Pliny called them Cratea . On the south-western side, toward the open sea, the coasts are extremely steep (cliffs or crowns); the highest cliffs are those on Klobucar (80 m), Mana (65 m), Rasip Veli (64 m) and elsewhere.

NATIONAL PARK KRKA

The Krka National Park is a spacious, largely unchanged region of exceptional and multifaceted natural value, and includes one or more preserved or insignificantly altered ecosystems. It is intended primarily for scientific, cultural, educational, recreational, and tourism activities such as visiting and sightseeing.
It was proclaimed a national park in 1985 and is the seventh national park in Croatia.

The Krka National Park is located entirely within the territory of Šibnik- Knin County and encompasses an area of 109 square kilometers along the Krka River: two kilometers downriver from Knin to Skradin and the lower part of the Čikola River. From the flooded part of the mouth, it is 72.5 kilometers in length, making the Krka the 22nd longest river in Croatia.

The source of the Krka River is at the base of the Dinaric Mountains, 3.5 kilometers northeast of the base of Knin and 22 meters below Topoljski Slap, Veliki Buk and Krčić Slap, which are noisy cascades in the winter but run dry during the summer.

The length of the freshwater section of the river is 49 kilometers and that of the brackish section is 23.5 kilometers. Significant tributaries of the Krka River include Krčić, Kosovčica, Orašnica, Butišnica and Čikola with Vrb. With its seven travertine waterfalls and a total drop of 242 meters, the Krka River is a natural and karstic phenomenon.