Day 27
Plitvic Lakes > Bosnia Border > Una National Park > Kulen Vakuf
79.3km
5 hours 09 mins
1,011m elevation gain
This was one of my favourite days of cycling so far. We left one National Park to enter another - Una National Park which has the River Una as it's main attraction - my namesake!! This was already enough to keep me excited all day but the river was beautiful, the roads weren't too busy and we got to cycle through the national park for most of the day. We had a great lunch on the riverside and a celebratory dinner in Kulen Vakuf, our end destination, situated within the park and along the River Una (pizza again as we are limited on options without meat).
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| Una National Park |
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| Our lunch spot - River Dock in Ripac |
Una National Park
At the national park we followed the hiking/biking trail - it would be more suited to mountain bikes but we survived the gravel path - which took us to a huge waterfall, Štrbački Buk. Along the route there were many signs to watch out for roe deers, wolves, wild boar and... bears!! We haven't seen any of these yet but we saw some pretty birds. The entrance was 3 euros each - much less than the Plitvice National Park!
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| Štrbački Buk waterfall |
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| Bear on the road! |
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| Una National Park trail |
Sights of note
- The big waterfall on the Una River - Štrbački Buk
- Crossing the Bosnian border; a long queue of cars, dogs everywhere, the guard half asleep had to check our passports twice
- A lot of very friendly people but also stray dogs
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The first things we saw once we crossed into Bosnia and Herzegovina were a lady on the side of the road selling sheepskins, a billboard poster advertising a career in the army, a mosque which had a call to prayer and older women dressed in traditional outfits. Already it felt very different from anywhere we had been before and even neighbouring Croatia. The old lady at our guesthouse is so sweet and she has taken our laundry (thanks goodness) we mainly use sign language to communicate.
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| Our view as we entered Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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