{"id":10366,"date":"2019-01-24T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/2019\/01\/24\/plitvice-rastoke-croatia\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T16:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:03:06","slug":"plitvice-rastoke-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/journal\/plitvice-rastoke-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Plitvice Lakes National Park &amp; Rastoke, Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It covers an area of roughly 300 km\u00b2 and is a &nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UNESCO World Heritage Site&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/el.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UNESCO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UNESCO<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The park <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">includes 16 lakes connected by a series of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">waterfalls<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as well as several <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">caves<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What to see at the Plitvice Lakes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Get ready for the most dreamlike, fairy-tale landscape you have ever set foot in. Crystal-blue waters, waterfalls, lakes large and small on different levels in every shade of turquoise and emerald, caves with bats, fish, lush vegetation and winding little paths \u2014 all combine to create an incomparable natural scene that you simply must see once in your life. Walk slowly, accompanied by the sound of water beneath the dense canopy of the trees, and write your own fairy tale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rastoke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rastoke is a traditional Croatian village which, thanks to the Korana river that links it to the Plitvice Lakes and its own natural little waterfalls, is also known as the &#8216;little Plitvice Lakes&#8217;. It has many beautiful watermills and is the ideal spot for a relaxing coffee after a full day at the lakes.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2518\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2518\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rastoke-village-croatia.jpg\" alt=\"\u03a7\u03c9\u03c1\u03b9\u03cc Rastoke - \u039a\u03c1\u03bf\u03b1\u03c4\u03af\u03b1\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rastoke village &#8211; Croatia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia&#8217;s most magical landscape: 16 turquoise lakes and waterfalls at Plitvice, plus the watermill village of Rastoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destination-guides"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10368,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions\/10368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}