http://www.walkingcroatia.com Walking and Hiking in Croatia Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:23:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you want to experience walking in the nature, the picturesque settlement of Lokve and its surroundings are an excellent choice for an walking weekend in Croatia. Lokve are situated about thirty minutes drive from Rijeka and about an hour and a half from Zagreb, right in the heart of Gorski ... http://www.walkingcroatia.com/walking-in-lokve-gorski-kotar/ A new tourism project was launched in Istra : The Parenzana - a route of Health and Friendship.  Parenzana is an old railway track from the early 20th century that linked Trieste, Kopar and Porec, passing through much of the Istrian interior. The railway has now been completely overgrown, but the route passing through ... http://www.walkingcroatia.com/walk-along-parenzana-railway-track-route-in-istra/ A tourist-educational trail called “In the Footsteps of the Miners of Tršce” was recently opened in the settlement of Tršce, a small tourist destination in Gorski Kotar, Croatia. The trail is over 6 kilometres long, and walking along it tourists can learn all about the way the local miners used to ... http://www.walkingcroatia.com/trsce-a-new-educational-walking-trail-in-gorski-kotar-croatia/ There are some 300 rural homesteads currently on offer in Istra with about 3,100 beds, which is about two percent of the total amount of accommodation capacity in this Croatian region. And while this is still a small number, we should point out that it is a segment now in ... http://www.walkingcroatia.com/rural-offer-in-istria/ The Tereziana Trail is a part of the old Austro-Hungarian road called Tereziana that linked Gospic and Karlobag via Velebit and went from Gospic via Zabicka street through Zabica, Licki Novi, Brusane and then via Takalice and Ostarije to Konjsko and Vidovac to Karlobag. http://www.walkingcroatia.com/tereziana-hiking-trail-velebit-croatia/ The Wayfarers, specialist in walking holiday has added new walking tour of Dalmatia. They aready had  departures in April , May and October is their next departure. http://www.walkingcroatia.com/walks-in-dalmatia-with-wayfarers/ "Putovanje Na Vrh" aka "Travel To The Top" is a brand new website made by Croatian travel enthusiast Božidar Dragišić - Bodo , who walked and hiked loads of places around Croatia as well as World. His new website contains thousands of good photos from his travels, including interesting photos from ... http://www.walkingcroatia.com/travel-to-the-top/ According to Croatian media, it is very likely that Papuk mountain in Slavonia will be included next week in the UNESCO’S network of the world’s geoparks. The full membership is expected to be confirmed in September. Beside Velebit and the Plitvice Lakes, Papuk will be the third geopark located in Croatia... read more about Papuk becoming ... http://www.walkingcroatia.com/papuk-mountain-and-nature-park-to-be-proclaimed-unesco-geopark/ Documentary on nature devastation and endangerment of the Velebit mountain in Croatia. Instances of road construction, hunting, logging and pollution were filmed. The film was made as a contribution to the campaign for protecting Velebit, a UNESCO biosphere reserve: [youtube iXnTVoitcHI] http://www.walkingcroatia.com/velebit-mountain-video/ This video is made in memory of 3 mountaineers who died in an accident on 14-Jan-2006 near Sveto brdo on Velebit mountain in Croatia. Two days before author of this film and his freind were on the same place. [youtube FuwH_Dl_6SA] http://www.walkingcroatia.com/winter-on-velebit/