Vis island

I was too tired to write yesterday but now i'm gonna continue about our passed four days in Kroatia.

Our traintrip from Vienna to Zagreb was quite productive. We had some amazing views on the way and also quite interesting company. Well there was this one Amish looking old man in the same wagon with us. He had a big beard and his clothes looked old and dirty. He had crucifix on her neck and he were reading and marking something in the book using loupe to see better. In some point the old man started to talk to me. Though he looked shabby i found it really nice to talk with this old man. He spoke really wisely and i it was quite confusing cause he somehow reminded me about the king in Paulo Coelhos book Alchemist that i was reading at the moment.

We ended up to Zagreb in saturday evening half past ten. And we had to find somewhere to sleep cause our train to Split was supposed to depart in the morning. So we asked from the nearest hotel, but the price was too high for us so the man in the reception told us to go to the nearest hostel wich was just around the corner. So we took two beds from the dormitory and slept about 6 hours and moved on in the morning.

Our trip to Split went quite easy by reading books and looking the views, wich has begun even more beautiful. When we arrived to Split there were many people asking around if we needed some place to stay the night. And there were only few tourists on that train so there were definetly oversupply. But this time we had already booked a room from Agoda. The city was nice the sea was turquoise but there were much more expensive than we had expected and the place was so crushed. That didn't really respond to our expectations of Kroatia so we spended just one night in there and then 11 am got the ferryboat to the Vis island.

On our way to Vis one woman came to ask if we needed a room. So the THING was working on there too. So the woman offered us one room with shared bathroom for only 160 kunas (21 euros) per night so we agreed. The woman was really nice and when we were arriving to the island she started to tell us about the history of Vis. So our fledgling image about the Kroatian kindness got stronger.

Our accomodation was great. We also had an opportunity to cook in there wich was nice cause we soon found out that the prices in restaurants were the same than in Split. So it was out of our budget.

The water was more clear and there where no death rats floating like back in Split. I was alonging to get diving but to be my bad there were too windy for that. But instead of diving we spended our few days in there by riding with bicycles, swimming, taking sun baths and doing some extremetrecking.

So in our first whole day in Vis we rented bikes and rode to the beautiful bluelagoon called Stivina. It was about 8km from the town of Vis but well the landform was quite different than in home. There were lots of uphill roads and our legs where exhausted when we get to the end of the road where we left our bikes. Then we only had to hike down to the beach. Sounds easy? Well we soon found out that it was quite rough and also dangerous if you wouldn't be carefull with your every step. There were only slight footpath filled with rocks and all sharp downhill so it was quite slippery. But well we are still alive and the lagoon was beautiful. The water was crystal clear and the beach was full of spherical white stones. And there were nobody out there at first except us and the Australian girl who lived in the room next to us. And one man in a little house on the beach who selled expensive beverages. After swimming and spending some time there we had to climb and ride ourselfes back to the village. So we did lots of sports on that day.

In our last day at Vis we experienced a great adventure when we were trying to find one beach but got lost. We wondered around the sandy roads acrossing the wineyards about two and half hours with only one liter of water. Then we gave up and tried to find our way back to village but found out that we were even more lost. We found some small footpath that runned in the hills but wasn't really in use cause there were many spiderwebs acrossing it and every time we conflict with one we were shivering. Just because in some webs we saw big spiders and we didn't really know would those be poisonous. Footpath ended in the middle of the field and we had do walk across it. And after that we had some really sharp spikes in our sneakers. And it took a while to take those all off.

It took one and half hours to find a road that had even some traffic and we'd been out off water for a while. Along that road we found a big house. So we desited to go and ask for help cause we were still lost. There were Kroatian man and German woman living in that house and kindly they offered us some juice and cookies and told us where we are and that there will be 10 kilometers between us and the village. We got back to road.And after half an hour of hitchhiking someone picked us on his way. After getting back to the village we just took a shower made some food and had a taste of local wine and relaxed the rest of the day that has actually turning to an end.

Today we moved on first two hours with the ferry to the Split and from there with the train via Knin to Zadar and from Zadar to Plitvice. And now we are here and i'm so exited about tomorrow cause we are getting to the Nationalpark. :)