We did an afternoon tour bus trip to Krka National Park to check out some waterfalls. This is the smallest National Park (and one day I’ll get to Plitvice which is the bigger version), but this one gave us the gist of the landscape. Mostly inland is rocky hillsides where people have spent a lot of time farming rocks…aka moving rocks to create somewhere to live and plant olives or grapes, or occasionally lemons or lavender. The limestone has little soil on it (except in the valleys apparently where the good soil accumulates), so it is all quite barren and dry.
The other part of having limestone everywhere means it erodes (cool caves and cliffs) and dissolves in rain and rivers – but then the waters are supersaturated with calcium carbonate. This precipitates out and makes formations called tufa (ie sinters) – which is great for waterfalls. And making the water look super blue.
We went to a small area with a 2km loop walk. There are water mills, one of the oldest hydroelectric power stations, waterfalls, and a lovely forest wall on boardwalks over cascading water.
We were docked in Trogir – which is north of Split, close to Split airport, but a much nicer journey by boat than airport shuttle bus – and then boarded our coach for the hour-ish drive. Yes – not only am I doing walking tours with a headset, now I’m also doing coach tours with retirees!
