Why You Should Go to Croatia (I’m Talking to You, Americans)
21. Aug, 2008 
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When I announced that I planned to go to Croatia, it was based on a photo I had seen online. It was taken from within a door frame, peering out towards brilliant blue water just few feet away. I thought, “Wow, I have to go there.” When I arrived, I soon found that many others agreed with me, and the country that occupies the coastline across the Adriatic sea from Italy was just as beautiful as that fateful photo.
However as I traveled, I noticed something strange. I didn’t met a single American. This was part of Europe (Croatia will enter the EU around 2010 if things go well) and unlike other European cities I’ve visited, I seemed to be the only one with that familiar blue passport. Why were Americans missing out on the worst kept secret in Europe?
Croatia has a brand name problem
First of all, “Croatia” didn’t always exist. Before 1990 it was part of the former Yugoslavia. When a few countries declared independence and the area later fell into civil war, the Bosnians, Serbs, and Croats made news for 5 years as they fought, signed peace accords and started fighting again. Not exactly the kind of PR that says “visit here”.
Perhaps this is why Americans have kept their distance? I have to admit, I had an embarrassingly poor knowledge of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and following civil war, despite it happening in my lifetime. A little research fixed this. The civil war is long since over, and Croatia even boasts a low crime rate. If you want to read more about it, Wikipedia offers an overview of the history. Also the US State Department has an official summary (and no travel warnings).
It’s safe, but is it that good?
Let me put it this way. If you like azure water, sheltered beaches, cheap prices, ancient architecture, friendly people, access to islands and seafood, then um, yes, you might like it a little. However, there are the beginnings of a tourist culture: stands have popped up selling flip flops and t-shirts, English is widely spoken, and tour boats litter the marina. But compared to the Caribbean, Hawaii, Mexico, the French Riviera, or Greece– Croatia is truly in its infancy. Tourism only picked up in 2000, and I predict it will be a couple more years before the Hilton builds a 16 swimming pool monstrosity that blocks the view for all but the most affluent. For now, it’s a sleepy coastal town that hasn’t quite figured out what to make of all these people who descend every summer.
Once Croatia enters the EU (~2010), prices may go up or they may attract the attention of international hotel developers. Until then, it’s all yours. A place so small that you’ll recognize fellow travelers in town or get to know your waiter’s kids as they sit at the table next to you. In short, it’s unexpected.
[Author's note: Edited to make clear that the civil war was after Croatia declared independence and removed reference to Hungarians. Alas, this is what you get when you use the web as a reference.]
We spent over 46 days in Croatia last August and September and actually met quite a few Americans ( along with tons of Italians and many other nationalities). Many of them come in by cruise ship and you can see them swamping the lovely city of Dubrovnik. We even met Americans on the smaller islands as well as Hvar, Korcula, plus Split, Plitvice and Rovinj…& tiny little Hum.
Certainly not as many Americans as Italy or Paris, but similar to many parts of Europe. Perhaps the count is down this year because of the ever shrinking dollar and recession.
The Germans are busy building up things in Croatia, but I certainly hope they continue to keep the pristine areas like they are today.The drive from Dubrovnik to Split is gorgeous ( and hardly anyone was on the road on the first week of September when the weather cools down and most tourists go home.)
Glad to hear you enjoyed yourself! Lets hope the Americans leave the gigantic cruise ships at home….they swamp beautiful small cities.
How to enjoy Croatia ?
1. Why Croatia ?
Croatia is the closest Mediterranean destination to central Europe. It takes 2 hours by plane from London,
45 minutes from Munchen… Croatian natural beauties are significant and amongst the best preserved in the world
( over 5,800 km of coast, over 1,000 islands, numerous national parks … ). More about Croatia find on the official web site
http://www.croatia.hr
2. How to Croatia ?
Traveling by car you have to keep in mind that the traffic is increased in summer season. National ferry line is
http://www.jadrolinija.hr and the national airline company is http://www.croatiaairlines.hr
3. Where in Croatia ?
Although the inland of Croatia is beautiful as well, lot of tourists decide for one of the places along the Croatian coast.
Most of the beautiful places in Croatia are located on the Adriatic sea coast ( National Park Brijuni islands, Roman arena in Pula,
National Park Kornati islands, old towns Dubrovnik, Zadar, Trogir, Sibenik, Split, National Park island Mljet … ).
Having one day trip in inland you can visit more Croatian beauties like National Park Plitvice lakes, National Park on river Krka,
National Park Paklenica, … )
4. Stay (sail) in Croatia ?
Usually tourists rent a hotel room or an apartment and spend a week laying on a beach not aware that there are plenty other places
around worth to be visited. Instead of changing hotels and moving your stuff from one place to another
trying to see as much as possible , you can rent a boat ( skipper if necessary ),
visit all the places along the Croatian coast and islands and have an extraordinary holidays.
Croatian coast has 1000 of islands so there are no big waves and high sea. The conditons are
perfect for nice and easy sailing. There are no long distance routes across the open sea. You can
achor anytime you want and take a swimm. The price for sailing holidays in Croatia is equal
to price for a hotel accomodation.
To answer the question how to enjoy in Croatia – sail in Croatia!
Before I get a bunch of comments citing American spottings in Croatia, let me say, I’m sure there are some or even a bunch of Americans that have traveled there.
But what struck me was how great Croatia is, how little it’s covered in US media as a destination and how little I hear about people going there.
It’s exciting when you go to a place that feels relatively “undiscovered,” especially in this day and age. After visiting big tourist destinations like Paris, it can be particularly nice. I remember hearing the faintest buzz about Croatia when I studied abroad in 2001-2002: all the poor college kids were eating up the cheap beaches! The buzz has grown, but it’s still off-the-radar for most people. I think you’re lucky to have gone now…enough tourist structure but not tourism overload. It will definitely be interesting to see what happens in the coming years, especially post-EU entry. I can’t wait to check out more of your pics!
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Agree with all of you. I have been to Croatia twice (2003 and 2006) and am totally in love with the country. It is truly undiscovered by most Americans, but each time I traveled there I ran into some. Some of my favorite spots are Dubrovnik, Korcula, Bol (Slatni Rat beach), and the Makarska Riviera. Zagreb, too, has the feel of a truly European capital and is not to be missed. It helps that each time we visit we spend some time with our Croatian relatives who hail from the Lika area. Americans, please discover this country, but then again, I, for selfish reasons like to go to this undiscovered jewel.
Where is Croatia is this?
I’ll add it to the list… the Moon, New Zealand, Hawaii, Iceland, Croatia, Kenya….
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I first decided I wanted to visit Croatia when the history channel had a whole show on it. And then I saw an article like this one in NYT – toohttp://travel.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/travel/04journeys.html
I really like how you typically include historical/political background of the places you visit, it really adds a lot of depth to your posts.
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I stumbled across this text(www.stumbleupon.com) and was really delighted by it since I’m croatian. The only thing I disliked about the text was the reference about the war. To make a long story short, Hungarians were NEVER a part of the war because Serbs never invaded their teritory so they didn’t have any reason to participate. Yugoslavia didn’t “fall apart into civil war”, but after few countries declared their independence, including Croatia, Serbs “declared” the civil war so to say by invading the territory of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina intending to conquer those countries and annexate their territories in order to make Great Serbia. But luckily, they failed because croatian and bosnian people resisted hard enough. And more then 10 years passed since the war ended, so it’s perfectly safe to come visit us.
hungarians had nothing to do with the war, croatia’s first historical reference is from the 7th century so its one of the oldest europeian countries. just to set a few things straight!
Thanks Ria and Mico for the clarification. I have made adjustments to the text and noted the change on the bottom.
Mico– regarding Croatia as being part of Europe– at first I was going to keep the phrase “practically” because originally I was thinking about it from the perspective of the EU, but I’ll take you point and I’ve made the change.
Thanks again, and I appreciate the feedback… I definitely enjoyed my time in Croatia and didn’t mean to gloss over any of the important points.
There are no American tourist hordes? Why invite them?!
We met a few around the place, so they’re certainly there. After two and half years travelling Europe, Croatia is a place I really want to get back to. We’re eyeing up South America now, so next time.
I just wanted you to know how inspiring what your doing is to so many. I travel around the world for Jet Set Life and know how rare it is to find someone of your caliber doing this type of quality work. Nice Job!
Hey Christine,
Long time! Glad to see your visit to Croatia went well. I´ve wanted to visit since 1998, when their soccer team made it all the way to the semi-finals at the World Cup in France. That is when Croatia came to exist for me and one school report later on the country, I was even more hooked.
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I have to say, living in Eastern Europe, thanks for having a proclamation about Croatia. Many Hungarians go on sailing trips around the islands, it’s a very pop destination. Looking forward to reading more!
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My husband and I (two Americans) spent part of our honeymoon in Croatia in 2000, renting a car in Dubrovnik and driving all the way up the coast until Trieste in Italy. Beautiful! As it was early October, all the tourists had gone home from the beaches already and we had amazing medieval towns all to ourselves.
Although it doesn’t have the coastline like Croatia, Slovenia next door is another great destination without too many tourists.
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Croatia is still on the list. Pictures I’ve seen from Dubrovnik, Split, etc are just stunning.
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I would love to hear more about Croatia, as it’s one of the places I definitely want to see. Every picture I have ever seen is stunning.
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I would love to explore more of Croatia. But one place that really struck me was Plitvice Lakes. It is a bit out of the way but makes for a wonderful day communing with nature (and quite a few tourists, probably including Americans…). But the lakes and forests and waterfalls make for a remarkable sight.
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What do u mean by American tourists i never knew american is race
do u mean the 1 milion croation blood citzens in america.
Yugoslavia means south slavs formed by Tito serbia,croatia,slovenia
croatia and slovenia before were under austrian rule .Serbia had its own kingdom
Bosnia has serbs, croatian and muslims from turkish empire these are croatian blood mixed with turks and have lost there slavic identity.You can tell bosinas because they can have large turkish shape heads but have fair features
Before slavs lived Illyrians or present day Albanians
The diocletion palace in split was built by an albania not roman who retired back to hes homeland.
Dubrovnik used to be an independent country called rugasa this was the first country to recognize Americas independence.
Hungarians are huns an asian tribe similar to turks from mongolia there language is not european and sounds a touch like turk or even korean.
However there is a lot of slavic and germanic blood . Its quite easy to recoginze the diffrence . Slavs tend to have a bit higher cheekbones than germans and the huns, hungarians have large round non european eyes.
I think what makes croatia attractive is its orignal. Not multicultural as
its not yet influnced by washington. Also its very clean
Its central position mean the weather is just right not to north or south
Its very diverse for small country . Slavonia -inland south is one of the most fertile places in europe .The people are large and stocky build.
North is zagreb area which has a lot of green hills and austrian influnce in buildings/towns
people tend to be a bit more formal but not as boring as german/nordic people
The sea coast has a lot of nice orignal towns . The croatian people here are tall and tanned they are also more laid back.
Croatian /Serbian language is the same except for a few words
Slovenian is diffrent language but has similar words.
large problem of the war was serbs were put in croatia by austrians as defence for the ottaman/turkish empire. Serbs also took control of the yugoslavian army which was the 4th largest army in europe and most of all greed.
Yugoslavia shows the world multiculturlism dose not work – there alway a greedy power sucking the minority dry.most of the broblems in the balkans are due to the ottoman/turk empire. We still survived under centeries of germanic rule
thankyou
Croatia had a massive tourist industry before the civil war. From the sixties on it was a very popular spot for people from all over Europe. The only thing they are doing now is trying to get that back. So, I don’t understand the ‘American’ thing. Please try to understand the complicated relationships in Europe before posting this. But, it is a lovely place to visit, American or not.
@Lunarts:
Totally missed the point. I am saying Croatia is awesome and more Americans should go, because they’re missing out. That’s it!
please don´t come to croacia. you talk so loud and take up so much space. we are happy here without you.
Croatia is the best
I’ve spent lots of time in Croatia mainly in Porec. Stop telling people how nice it is, they’ll all catch on, go there and spoil it for the rest of us.
Excellent post. A friend and I (both American) visited Croatia last year and had planned on only staying a few days. We spent nearly 2 weeks just in Split (and the beautiful island of Hvar). Truly an underrated location and I hope I can visit again before the secret gets out.
BUT, there’s a problem. The only european war torn and traumatised country such as it is, Croatia is sprawling with psychologicaly scarred “liberation” war veterans, who were busy raping and burning alive hundreds of muslim and serbian women and children just a couple of years ago, and have now gone into where their skills come in handy, that is, organised crime and law enforcement. A sinister combination indeed. And results show. More and more rich western tourists are being mugged, raped and, most recently the australian teenager, killed, without any meaningful police investigation, even letting some journalists believe it is the police who rob at gunpoint, or rape and kill rich young tourists. A vast majority of population is suffering extreme poverty, getting by day after day and it is therefore only natural that they take from walking moneybags that invite them to join europe etx. just to buy off their shoreline to build hotels. They hold a grudge against the west (accepting slovenians but not them) and they’ve got a reason for it.
liberal?
Psychologicaly scarred “liberation” war veterans? How do you expect to emerge as a healthy citizen when you realize your towns are being pillaged by the “people’s army” in which your brother is currently serving and the the ancient church in your city is crumbling while people attend mass inside. Elementary schools are being targetted during school hours and babies are being tortured by for the simple fact that they are there. Your cemetaries are being grenaded for the sake of spreading desease and you must continue your life afterwards. As in every way, horrendous individuals get away with crimes that are barely uttered in sentences however to mock the fact that the soldiers who fought for Croatia is disgusting. They were liberating the countryside of a of a dictatorship that had survived for too long. Extreme poverty is questionable from an economic perspective and the main financial difficulties that plagues Croatia is the fact that they are forced to get by on European price levels while handling Balkan salaries. On the notion of crime, theres a higher chance of being mugged in a Westchester suburb then on an island of Croatia and your facts seem misconstrued. All in all, I recommend Zadar and Dubrovnik and apartments are easily rented in both dalmatian cities. It beats the Hilton’s price in every regard.
@liberal
please don’t exaggerate because tourists in croatia are much safer than in paris, nice, or any other posh vacation place.
croatia can be compared with most of the central european countries, hungary, slovakia, checz, etc…
also, majority of croatians do not live in poverty and economically are compared to slovakia and czech republic.
from your opinion about war it is obvious that you have some disordered sources.
I think the last couple of months since Croatian prime minister Sanader resigned without any explanation speak for themselves. Yesterday a car-bomb exploded in Sibenik, a well known tourist destination on the coast, wounding two foreign tourist and a local. About a month ago an Croatian war veteran with 4 hand grenades in his pockets was just barely stopped before blowing himself up, along with a couple of Slovenian border officers searching his luggage on entering Slovenia. He subsequently claimed he was planning to assassinate the current Slovenian prime minister Pahor. Are you seriously claiming that Croatia is a safe country? I wouldn’t recommend any place where any kind of attacks “almost never” happen as a holiday destination.
Liberal: If you check the top of the post, you can see the date this was posted on (a year ago). Aside from that, the three things you listed, a prime minister resigning, a single car bombing and a border crossing incident are not exactly a “unsafe country”. Prime minister quit? So what! 1 car bombing? Think London, France, Madrid, then tell me how serious this is. A border crossing incident? Sounds like one crazy person. Ever hear of the shoe bomber?
If anyone has concerns about Croatia, they can check the US Travel advisory site, which I also mentioned in the post. At the time, there were no travel warnings. Now, a year later, there still are none. So apparently the US government thinks it’s safe for Americans to travel there.
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1095.html
So yes, I am “seriously claiming that Croatia is a safe country”. And I’d love to know what countries you would recommend. Countries, that as you put it, that don’t have attacks “almost never” but in fact have have none.
*chuckle* Yeah, if an american travel site says something, then it must be so, right? British government, on the other hand, probably know less and are certainly just fools for trying to dissuade their citizens from going there. You really should read the excellent articles BBC and other non-american media have on this topic (especially those by Matt Prodger). Here’s a taste:
ZAGREB, Croatia, April 16 (UPI) — Croatia Thursday protested a warning issued by Britain’s Foreign Office that tourists visiting Croatia be aware of threats from organized crime.
The Zagreb government was upset by a BBC article Wednesday on organized crime and corruption in Croatia, including assassinations of journalists and businessmen. Croatia complained it was the malicious article before the oncoming tourist season on the Adriatic coast, that fueled the tourist warning, the Javno.hr Web site said.
Mario Dragun, a spokesman for the Croatian Foreign Ministry said the government had already contacted the British Foreign Office about its warning of dangers from crime organizations.
Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic said his ministry asked the Foreign Office to explain why the security situation in Croatia was not depicted in an objective way, Javno.hr said.
Actually the British Govt didn’t tell people not to go. This is what they said:
“There is a low threat from terrorism in Croatia, but you should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate attacks, which could be in places frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers.”
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travelling-and-living-overseas/travel-advice-by-country/europe/croatia
Oh and they also said this:
“Around 267,000 British nationals visit Croatia every year (Source: Croatian Ministry of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development). Most visits to Croatia are trouble-free. The main types of incident for which British nationals required consular assistance in Croatia in 2008 were hospitalisations and lost or stolen passports.”
So yes, if someone is worried about traveling to Croatia and you find the US State Dept’s website lacking, the above link will take you to the British equivalent.
As always, do your own research before taking any trip and don’t listen to fear mongers. Typically the travel advisories are very conservative, so they are a good place to start.
@ Liberal
Yes, us “stupid” Americans, it’s amazing we haven’t all died by accidently traveling to the Bajur region of Pakistan. *chuckle* we are “dumb” like that. We couldn’t possibly have any knowledge of the world, as we are Americans.
You really should read this:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2626589/Fascist-rocker-Marko-Perkovic-whips-up-racist-football-fans-in-Croatia.html
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[...] The Sun witnessed the tactic being used to stir a 30,000-strong crowd into fascist chants and salutes at Croatia’s home match against Belarus last Saturday.
About 8,000 of those fans are expected at Wembley tomorrow.
Our investigators also attended a Thompson concert, where bare-chested fans openly gave the stiff-armed Sieg Heil salute while proudly waving Croatian flags.
Some even took SWORDS to the show – where Thompson, 42, posed on stage with his own blade.
Thompson, an avid footie fan who wears paramilitary costume at gigs, is a cult figure on white supremacist website Stormfront.
He has been barred from performing in countries including the Netherlands and Austria because of security fears.
He glorifies the Ustashe regime which committed genocide in World War II and his chilling lyrics glamorise Nazi concentration camps where 90,000 innocent Jews, gipsies and Serbs were murdered.
He also backs Croat generals who committed crimes against humanity during the bloody Balkans conflict in the 1990s.
His official video for one song, hailed as Croatia’s footie anthem, honours warlord Mate Boban, who led a 1990s genocide campaign. ”
end of excerpt
By any means go and visit, just don’t be black or say anything against fascism or defame their “liberation” war/genocide against bosnians and serbs if you want to keep all your teeth and property. Eventually it will become clear that former croatian president tudjman was the no. 1 instigator of war with his dreams of larger and balkans-dominating croatia that luckily never came to fruition. Croatia is a land of crazed war veterans who view killing only as a definite means of persuasion – they’ve seen it work and being used to enlarge the territory of their country with great effect. Remember, they did it only a couple of years ago, so everyone still keeps guns and handgrenades at home (remember the failed assasination attempt against the pm of the neighbouring slovenia), ready and fully trained to use them at the slightest provocation. For example perception of your country being robbed of a goal or delayed in the accession to the EU. The former has already happened, do we really need hundreds of victims at wembley?
Croatia…..where towering mountains met an azure sea that is scattered with a thousand islands blessed by sunshine it is in my mind the most beautiful place on earth.
@ Liberal
I never comment anything on the Internet, but seeing your comments, man, I just couldn’t believe my eyes and I couldn’t stop myself from saying something. Now, I’m not going to offend you, because I’m not going to lower myself to that level but I just want you to know this. I’m croatian and I’ve lived here all my life so, Liberal, you’re either some balkan war veteran yourself or you have somebody from those areas giving you this ridiculous information. all I can say to you is, don’t talk about the things you know absolutely nothing about. yes, we do have some corrupted politicians (so, does that make us any different from the rest of the world!?), we do have some some unresolved issues like all counrties do, but saying that we are extremely poor (?!?) and that we have suicide bombers around, that tourists are being attacked and robed here – that’s really pathetic. I’d just suggest to you that if you, for some reason, hate it so much – don’t come here and just ignore it. Ok?
thank you!
On every site there are Sebian nationalists who want to smear Croatia.I think it’s a part of campaign from their fascist nationalist movements who were responsible for the Balkan wars.Serbs are pure fascists.
If Liberal were that liberal like he’s saying then he would tell the truth about Croatia. You described like it is some African developing country. Please, come to Croatia first and then we will talk. Or maybe you need visa to get there
We should not forget that we are human beings trying to have a decent living and a normal life. All govt’s in the world are corrupt and are trying to get money out of the normal people, they call it tax we call it robbery.
Anyway, considering this we can only assume that the people in Croatia are more or less the same as anywere in the world. Yes, there was a war and yes history is always a part of a country. Look at the German republic, a long history in war and for the last 65 years an example for a lot of countries.
Please go for the people and not for history people could not do anything about anyway, that is our pain in life: governments, industries and religion. And Croatia is just like us all.
One minor “edit” suggested to the older histories above, that many Americans may find interesting… although most of inland Croatia was part of the former Austro-Hungarian empire, much of the Dalmatian coast, pretty much from Istria all the way down to Zadar, was part of Italy or had on-again-off-again history with Italy until WWII. After WWII thousands of Italians were forced to leave Croatia, including homes and lands held for generations. That’s one of the (many) reasons why so many abandoned farms are in the hills of Istria, etc. And why when you talk to a native of a town such as Zadar, their Croatian accent often has an Italian ring to it. Also, when you tour Venice, you are looking at buildings built on pillars of Croatian trees, which is why so much of the Dalmatian coast and Islands can be sometimes rocky, barren, and tree-less.
Secondly don’t expect Croatia to be cheap. It was a cheap destination in the 1970s, but now it’s fairly expensive.
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I have to say something to you all here about Croatia and its tourism.
You all may have been round to the Caribbean, Mexico and other near places to the USA, however, it is not tourism to stay in luxury hotels and cruisers.
Croatia was a very famous destination during the Habsburg Monarchy (Austrohungarian)
take Opatija (Abbey) for example, or the natural park and botanic reserve of Lokrum Island near Dubrovnik. So what you dear blogger define as tourism i believe is to make Croatia closer to the USA consumerism mentality.
Croatia is a truly heaven on earth, either for low prices, accessibility and pleasant people. Another very important fact about Croatia is that Croats arrived here at the Adriatic coast in the 7th century but a few centuries before had stipulated a contract with the Pope of that time to free the land of Barbaric tribes which would grant them the land and the protection of God. Through the centuries many were the attackers and many more those who enslaved Croats, only to fall in disgrace and finally a state was made in 1990.
So, now some crude facts.
Number of islands, solitary
rocks and reefs:
1,185; the largest islands are
Cres and Krk; there are 47
inhabited islands.
Croatian islands are among the most beautiful islands in the world.
There are so many and each one has it’s own story and a different charm.
One thing you will find on each of them is the magic of the people who lives there, don’t rush, be patient, enjoy the area, the landscapes, take it easy. After all it’s vacation time and everything is already perfect once you step on our soil. Locals will be trying to help you, ask them. Have trust in our touristic board offices, agencies, hotel personnel, ask them for information, be friendly. That’s the way to get confident with local people and there resides the secret of becoming an insider, through that you’ll have access to other let’s call it contents that are never shown in any touristic guides, you’ll make real friends.
Remember, Croats are friendly to those who friendly are, our people likes communication and i must say here that we don’t look at our tourists exclusively through euros or dollars or any money. To be friendly they will search the real person in you, show yourself.
A special hug to you all future visitors and guests from a crew member of the Libertas Film Festival of Dubrovnik.
CROATIA, sun, soccer and the sea! This place is home of my favorite piano player, Maksim! Also, I heard the houses there reflects the a lot of the nation’s history – I would love to visit the place and stay in their hotels.
Thanks for all of the helpful info. I am an American who is planning to visit Croatia in May 2010. The way I discovered Croatia as a vacation destination is It came HIGHLY recommended by several Polish co-workers of my husband’s. I am really excited about visiting.
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Thumbs up for Croatia! I loved exploring the walled city of Split and sailing around the many nearby islands!
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Very interesting post,
Thanks for the effort you took to expand upon this topic so thoroughly. I look forward to future posts.
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Croatia is a lot more safer than other multicutural places in europe such as uk/london,paris,belgum ect.
Of course there is 2 sides to war most of problems is due to the turkish invasion of europe were croatia and serbs fight the turkish/asian invasion.German moved serbs into croatian land to fight of turks plus a lot of croatians mix with turks creating muslims in bosnia.Plus these borders were created by germany and the west and uk/american pack which not consider the native people living there.
Another thing the australian teenager that died or kiled in dubrovnick in croatia has croatian mum.
Dubrovnick which was its own country called rugusa was the first country to recognize america independence from england.
It is also very easy to understand why croatians kicked out serbs as they destroyed 1/3 of croatia for 5 years.
This is the same like israil entering into palstein and pushing them out of there home land. Or germany invading poland. Or U.S goverment invasion of afganstan, iraq,egypt,south korea, japan,vietnam,and the rest of the world.
Bbc report of croatia this is from country that has occupied and stolen from and attack cyrpus, gibralta,malta, croatia in world war 2 bombed zadar,most of africa, singapore ,australias and most of the world, and they are going to teach the world about demcratic or crime througth one sided media. please even an 8 year old child can find out the truth
I’m from Croatia
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