No, this isn’t the title for a novel, even though the combination of words might sound a bit mysterious. The three nouns are the most memorable parts of our time in Krka National Park and Skradin, the town adjacent to the park. 

Krka National Park features water from the Krka River cascading over limestone and the local people refer to the many small waterfalls as necklaces. Visitors can access the park by car, bike, or in a boat. We opted for the water craft entry, just the first of our two boat rides during our day at the 190 square kilometer national park. We even got to see remnants of Krka Hydropower Plant, which began operation in 1895, just two days after Nikolai Tesla’s hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls. (A future post will include more info about Tesla, Croatia’s most famous inventor and engineer.)

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We walked to the various viewing platforms for the lower falls, officially known as Skradinski buk.

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Then we boarded our second boat of the day, which took us to Visovac Island and then on to the upper falls. The very small island includes a Franciscan monastery and the Church of Our Lady of Visovac, established in 1445. 

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Our last stop of the day featured the fifteen-meter tall Rossi Slap waterfall.

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Skradin, a town of about 4,000 residents, is most well known as the gateway community to Krka National Park. But it also has many other appealing features, such as a pebble beach and beautiful marina where the Krka River flows out to the Adriatic Sea. Over centuries Skradin was under the rule of numerous governments, including the Roman, Ottoman, French, and Austrian-Hungarian empires. It is one of the oldest Croatian towns and we loved that it still has many narrow cobbled streets.  

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We climbed up to small and aging Turina Fortress for a great panoramic view of the town and harbor. 

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