6am came VERY early today, but we had to get up in time for breakfast and our jaunt to Krka Falls. The falls are not so high, but the amount of water rushing down is totally impressive – lots of layers of falls and very wide. There is so much water running now that what are meadows in the summers are 3-foot deep rivers today. While we were waiting for the group, we spied a herd of goats up above us on a steep hill, snacking away.
We started with a tour of the old 5-wheel grist mill – one wheel for each of several types of grains. Then we walked off to the start of the main area of the falls – there were rainbows over the water – totally magical. We started off down a long stone stairway, and then walked around on the other side of the river on an extensive boardwalk. Back at the bus, we went to an Etnopark, which we didn’t have much hope for. Our tour guide, Anna, spoke beautiful idiomatic American English – apparently had been tutored in it since age FOUR! She involved various members of the group and gave one of the most entertaining presentations on life in rural Croatia that it is possible to imagine.
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| One small section of Krka Falls |
As soon as we returned to the boat we headed out to Split. We took a short walk to the major historic site, Diocletian’s Palace and wandered around the narrow streets for about 45 minutes. At one point, we went to an upper level. I was looking for a way back down, but the ground apparently rose up to meet us and we walked out on the level where we had walked thru before from the lower level – felt like being in an Escher drawing where you keep going upstairs and link back to where you started.
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