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Dalmatia just keeps on giving

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After having looked at the Biokovo Mountain Range from Omis and Makarska and enjoying the sight from sea level, it was time to go up and check out the views from the top down.  Just like a couple of days ago, there was no one on the trails at all. The whole range is a typical karst landscape, pretty barren and rocky, with big boulders and sharp-edged rocks. The only place where my human met other people was at the Biokovo Skywalk, the first of its kind in Croatia. A semicircular glass platform protrudes 11 meters into nothingness at an elevation of 1228m. The road leading up to this point explaines the other people. If you are scared of heights, walking on the glass might be a bit of a challenge, but the feeling is quite exhilarating, having what feels like nothing under your feet, looking down the steep rock wall. The following day, we took a one-hour ferry ride to the island of Brac, the third-largest island by size in the Adriatic Sea.  You arrive in Sumartin, one of 22 settlements
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Dalmatia, me likey! Me likey a lot!

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After visiting Kornati National Park, we only drove out of Zadar some 10km, where we found ourselves a beautiful spot for the night, right on the beach next to a little fishing harbor. We watched the sunset right from this spot, trying to imagine how it could be any better. Nothing came to mind, really. Considering that wild camping is forbidden in Croatia, we are doing pretty good, Iˋd say. But then, itˋs still very much off season. In a month or so, things will be different for sure. But by then we will be in Bosnia & Herzegovina, where wild camping is allowed. Close to the road but also so close to pure bliss We went to see Vransko jezero next, the largest lake in the country and a nature reserve, especially important for local and migrating birds.  You can circumnavigate the lake on a 45km trail. My human was on her bike, of course, but met people on motorcycles and quads as well. Not many others on bikes. Two, to be exact. And they looked slightly miserable. Might be because 3
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