Day 13– September 14, 2006 – The bus ride to a natural wonder!
We left Budapest promptly at 8am. As days on the tour go, this one was uneventful. We were on the road for about 8 hours. But it did take us an hour to cross the border from Hungary into Croatia. Not from us, but we were behind a tour bus from Serbia and according to Bojan the Croats will sometimes give the Serbs a hard time at the border crossings.
Once we crossed the border, literally 3 minutes down the road was our lunch stop at cute little restaurant in a picturesque setting. The lunch was “picnic style” cold cuts for sandwiches and such. It was all pretty tasty!
After lunch it was back on the bus for about 3 and a half hours and we made it to Plitvice National Park by around 5:30pm. We stayed at the Hotel Plitvice, located right inside the park (http://www.np-plitvicka-jezera.hr/). By the time we checked in and got to our room it was 6pm-ish.
CL and I took a little walk around the lake and came back to the room to hang out. We met the group in the lobby at 7:30pm for dinner in the dinning room at the hotel. Dinner was pretty good since my expectations were pretty low to begin with. We had a non-descript brothy noodle soup, salad, and grilled seafood kebobs (which were really yummy), with spinach and potatoes and some kind of wedding cake looking dessert…hey, it was sweet, and I wasn’t going to complain about it!
The hotel was clean and it was nice and quiet, which doesn’t sound important, but for the last several nights we had been in the center of Budapest with all its “city noises”. So I slept like a baby in Plitvice! And since the hotel is located right in the park it’s very convenient for our walk through the park that will be tomorrow.
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