Split the second time

We had a bit of a problem with our Split hostel this time, they apparently triple booked our hostel room so after a lot of waiting around we ended up staying in a room in the cleaners apartment on the other side of town. She didn't speak a word of English and kept trying to talk to us in German finally we worked out how much we needed to pay and all got our messages across (we think). The room wasn't too bad, we had our own bathroom and a balcony. Also free wifi so we weren't complaining! By the time we got into our room it was about 12pm so after grabbing a quick lunch and some fresh juice (we discovered Croatia's version of Boost juice and ended up going there every day) and dropping off our laundry i had a nap and we didn't do anything for the rest of the day. That night we went out for dinner with some of the people we met on our boat.

just outside our hostel room

Ewen coming down the stairs that lead to our room

The next day we actually managed to get some sightseeing done. We went to Diocletian's Palace and had a look around there. It is divided into two sides for tourists to go through, the first side was really cool, I'm not entirely sure what it would have been used for back in the day though. I think the actual rooms of the palace (the ones that still remain) are off limits to tourists and some of them the locals live in. The other side of the palace we could look in had a special exhibition at the moment, a kind of Olympics exhibition i guess, they had a sandpit for long jump, javelins, a high jump mat, a sprinting and hurdle area, etc etc. It was kind of strange to see all of these things in the cave like atmosphere of the palace. After seeing the palace we walked around the town going into a few shops (it was Sunday so pretty much all the shops we had originally planned on goinginto were closed). We then set about working out how we were going to get to Krka National Park the next day, we had heard that they have incredible waterfalls you could swim under. After a bit of messing around we finally found a tour we could go on the following day.

The main strip in Split, it was called the Riva.. The building is Diocletian's Palace

I can't remember who this is a statue of, of he has ginormous fingers and it is good luck to rub his toe

The other side of Diocletian's Palace

Our last full day in Split we went to Krka National Park, our tour only had 5 people on it and turned out to be more like very expensive transport than an actual tour. a mini bus drove us the hour and a half to the town nearest the park and then we got a ferry across to the park. The waterfalls were indeed incredible, i couldn't believe how big they were, the two big let downs though were that there were hundreds of other people around and you couldn't actually get very close to the waterfalls, they had half of the pool below the waterfall roped off. But it was still a nice day. We paddled around the river and got as close to the waterfalls as we could, we had a picnic lunch, went for a walk and lay about in the sun.

Car air-conditioning Croatia style

The waterfalls and lots of people

Ewen having a shower in one of the smaller water falls

A freaky clown busker

The next morning we were up before the sun to catch the 6.20am bus to the airport. We got a flight to Copenhagen in Denmark and from there a flight to Paris!!!