Croatia & Slovenia Travel Skills
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2016
- Rick Steves European Travel Talk | In this talk, Rick Steves' guidebook co-author Cameron Hewitt shares advice for traveling along Croatia's Dalmatian Coast: the Roman villa-turned-bustling-city, Split; the "Pearl of the Adriatic," Dubrovnik; and some charming seafront villages. He'll also dip into neighboring Slovenia with stops in the Julian Alps, Lake Bled, and the delightful, small city of Ljubljana. Download the PDF handout for this class: goo.gl/l7eLvl
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Thank you for such a beautiful presentation of my country (Slovenia).
👍👍👍program. Very informative 👏
Last year I'd gone to Slovenia and absolutely loved it!
In Croatia we went to: Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Split, Hvar, Stari Grad, Plitvice Lakes, Rovinj and Pula........all are wonderful.
Stunning photographs, inspirational talk🌍
Excellent presentation. Congratulations.
We planned to visit slovenia, croatia, montenegro and Bosnia (Mostar) next summer. The information we got from this talk was very, very encouraging. I will continue to study the history of the countries before our trip.
António Moreno
Best places you need to visit in those countries (This is my list) :D
Slovenia: Lake Bled, Ljubljana, The Vintgar gorge
Croatia: Plitvice Lakes, Dubrovnik, Zagreb
Montenegro: Sveti Stefan (St. Stephen), Budva, Biograd Lake
Bosnia: Mostar, Spring of River Bosna, Buna River
Serbia: Uvac River, Krupaj Spring, Tara's National Park
Extremely useful information! thank you
Croatia has one of the best food in the world. It depends where you eat ofcourse, but it preserved its authenticity and everithing is made with fresh ingredients. Avoid touristy places. And the reason why we don't have a lot fast food places is because we eat at home.
Excellent presentation. of two friendly countries, the most beautiful in the former Yugoslavia, well done, thanks
Everywhere we went in Croatia was excellent. Rovinj was absolutely gorgeous. We did love our time in Sarajevo and the bazaars there were wonderful and to stand there and hear the call for prayer being broadcast from one of the minarets was just out of this world fabulous. We loved Mostar and Kotor as well. Be careful walking the streets of Mostar though, not that you have to worry about crime. It isn't that, it is the fact that the stones used in the bridge can be as slick as grease from being worn so smooth. In Mostar, cross the bridge and keep heading along the street that follows the river till you get to the Mosque. Get a ticket to go in and make sure you climb to the top of the minaret for an exquisite view of the bridge. (Note.....don't try this if you are claustrophobic or if you have bad knees....the steps are steep)
Amazing
every story about Montenegro begins and ends in Kotor. That is sad. But the best of sights are little more far away- closest to Kotor is Perast ( old traffic free coastal town with beatuful bay and sea views ), outside bay on the coast you have Budva old town (like a smaller Dubrovnik) , Sveti Stefan island, Ada Bojana for both sea and river experience ( it has nudist part so you can enjoy skinny dipping), above coast- Lovcen national park, Rijeka Crnojevica, Zabljak mountain with breathtaking Lakes, Tara river canyon (second largest canyon in the world- after Grand Canyon), Biogradska gora national park, and one of the most impressive monastery I have ever seen, built in the mountain rock- Ostrog. Please, don't make Montenegro just a half a day excursion from Dubrovnik, stay few more days, its two times cheaper and not crowded with tourists.
Proprio belle !
Rovinj is Dubrovnik without all the cruise shippers
Thanks for sharing. I have two options to go the Balkans or Eastern Europe,I can't make up my mind, please give some advice, appreciate it very much
1:05:00 if you have to choose between Skocjan and Postojna caves, which one should you do? Or are they different enough that it's worth doing both?
Good question! I'd love to know, too!
He likes to say it was one country, but forgot to say that Yugoslavia was federal republic, so that mean that in Yugoslavia there already was republic of slovenia, republic of croatia etc... but nice presentation
@Leopoldus Carniolus Everyone has their own version of Istrian history, especially now. Depends on your political and ethnic slant.
They were always their own separate independent countries until... now they are once again their own separate independent countries
just like the USSR
My husband is from croatia. You are wrong about the food. The food is delicious. Alot of the food is better then itialian food. I have tried dishes made by itialian cooks and croatian cooks. Croatian is much better.
It would be better for Mr. Hewitt to avoid talking about Tito and Yugoslavia, about which he knows little and of the little that he does know, most of it is biased in favour o Tito and Yugoslavia - without giving a good reason - which might raise some hackles. It is not morally acceptable to whitewash genocidal dictators and Tito (with his followers) was one, having massacred ca. 1.1 million civilians and imprisoned nearly 4 million, including torture, hard labor and all the other human rights abuses one can think of. Neither can prevailing perceptions about these things justify it. What's more, from this video presentation there is nothing(?) showing some cultural heritage as contribution from these Yugoslavia contraptions, so why mention them at all? And, what's DNA of these various peoples got to with the theme of of the lecture?
There is also no good reason whitewashing the artificial contraptions called Yugoslavia I. and II., which were held together only by brutal force and which fell apart as soon as circumstances allowed, both times in terrible wars. What's more, from this video presentation there is nothing(?) showing some cultural heritage as contribution from these Yugoslavia contraptions, so why mention them at all? And, what's DNA of these various peoples got to with the theme of of the lecture?
And, why is BiH represented only with islamic features? Aren't Mostar and Sarajevo multicultural? Which ''cultures' is the ''Old bridge'' in Mostar ''connecting''?
Sir, leave that stuff out next time. Why? Because some victims of the last wars in that region might find some of your claims offensive.
The rest of the presentation was very good, thank you.
Now that the First Lady of the United States is from Slovenia, perhaps tourism will pick up.
Who knows...!!!