Krka, Biljane Donje

After Trogir, we began the journey towards Zadar, our next destination.  Have I mentioned that my friend Shannon lied about being able to drive a stick shift and I've had to do all the driving on this trip?  :-)  Yep, she did.  And for the entire trip our driving has taken us at least TWICE as long as it's supposed to.  Sometimes it's our own doing, like when we stopped to have lunch in a castle, or when we made a detour to the beautiful Krka National Park to go swimming in the lake!

We pulled into a rest stop for some coffee on the drive to Zadar.  While there we checked just to see how far we were from Krka, and it turns out we were really close!  So we made a detour and managed to jump into the lake for a quick cool down. It was really breathtaking. Since we were swimming we didn't bring our cameras, but just do a Google image search for Krka National Park and you'll get the idea.  :-)

Feeling a little more refreshed after our lake dip (have I mentioned that Croatia is in the middle of a brutal heatwave for the past couple weeks?), we got back on the road, driving through the countryside to Zadar. We passed this lady and her goats and stopped to take a photo:

As we drove further we started passing buildings that looked like they were falling apart...old bombed out buildings left from the war in the early '90's. One little town in particular was really sad (Biljane Donje) - there is a mass grave there from the Croatian War for independence from Yugoslavia. More than one person has brought up the war to us - it's still fairly fresh in the minds of many Croats.

We didn't take a ton of pictures along this leg, but here are a few. The student driver cracked us up.