KNEZEVIC GUEST HOUSE

  In the vicinity of the Plitvice lakes themselves, just 15-minute walk from the lakes, in the Mukinje settlement there stands Knezevic family guest house. In the newly built and nicely turned out house the guest have choice of 10 rooms with a total of 20 beds and the three stars just to confirm quality of accommodation.

  This small hotel is placed at interesting spot: just across it a skiing slope together with a sky lift is situated and is visited by a great deal of tourists during the winter. This is great fun for the children as well, as they can go sleighing, make snowmen and enjoy in other winter distractions. In summer, the meadows are filled with a green mat of numerous mountain plants and they are surrounded by the thick Plitvice forests.

  The couple, Dragica and Nikola Knezevic have built their house in the Lika style using traditional construction materials: stone and wood. In the cellar of home they have placed restaurant with a kitchen, so that guests can sleep and enjoy many domestic culinary delights in the same building.

  The green lawn behind the house also plays host to an orchard and various plants, while a path that leads very moderately upwards ends in an open fireplace used to barbecuing and making specialty "ispod peke" (food baked in special tins in cinders) foods.

  In autumn, when forests are clad in their golden-yellow uniforms and when it gets colder, the Mukinja plant fruit ripens, this being the plant after which the whole settlement was named. This is an absolutely idyllic time at the Knezevic guest house.**

PLITVICE LAKES Croatian National Park - World heitrage

  The area of Plitvice lakes, declared a National Park in 1949, is a valley situated between high forested mountains in which lies, one bellow another, a string of sixteen beautiful lakes and tarns of crystal blue-green color. They are fed by many small streams and brooks and spill into each other in foaming cascades and thundering waterfalls.

  Due to their unique evolution and beauty, in 1979 the Plitvice Lakes were entered in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Plitvice Lakes delight by their scenery.

  In the waterless karsts with its sparse vegetation you come suddenly upon a treasure of water in which are reflected densely forested hills. Here is a diversity and an inexhaustible abundance of details, on every visit things are discovered.

  The exceptional beauty of the lakes and waterfalls, rich plant and animal life, contrasting colors, forests and pure mountain air, comfortable hotels and rustic restaurants attract many nature lovers from all over the world.*

BARAC'S CAVES

  The three out four Barac's caves that have been explored are decorated with rare forms of stalagnates, pillars formed by the merging of stalagmites and stalactites. The traces of early (primitive) man have also been found with the remains of long perished animals and after 111 years the caves are now open again for tourists' visits.

  Barac's caves are 6km east of Rakovica, near village Nova Krslja. and it's about 20km from guest house.**

DREZNIK CASTLE

  On the barely accessible sides of the gorge above River Korana, on the borders of Christian Europe and Turkish Bosnia, the rulers of the Croatian fortress Dreznik changed many times over centuries of warfare. Today it is awaiting it's promised restoration and approval as a tourist attraction.**