 Oh my god, the water is so crystal clear. We can see to the ground. There are so many fishes in like big fish, small fish. I'm just really like amazed by it. It's so beautiful. Hi, I'm Lavi and this is Oli. Over the past four years, we have been on some epic adventures around the world. Now, after converting an old van into our new home on wheels, we are ready to hit the road and explore the wonders of Europe. The subscribe button to follow our journey and let the adventure begin. Good morning, world. Welcome to our Odyssey year. A few days ago, we arrived in Croatia. Today, we are going to be showing you guys around the Plitvich Lakes National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This park is famous for its cascading lakes and waterfalls. With its 16 lakes, every year, one million people come here to see this stunning natural wonderland. The weather today is a little bit misty and gray, so we will probably see a completely different side of what people usually see. It will be very exciting. So I would say let's go. So here you can see a whole bunch of different routes that they've set out in the national park. They involve a mixture of hiking and there's a boat ride and a train ride that you can do. We have chosen route H to do and this includes walking in the upper lakes, walking in the lower lakes, and a train ride and a ferry ride. So we get to see nearly everything in the park and that should be pretty awesome. It's going to take about four to six hours. So let's get going and check it out. For us, probably more like eight hours. Yeah. So we're starting our journey with a bus or it's like a bus train called the ST2 and it's going to take us up to the top of the lakes. Okay, so it wasn't a train. It was actually a big bus train that took us up all the way to the top of the upper lakes. The weather has changed. Look who joined us. Oh, it's so nice now. So we've just started the boardwalk which is the start of trail H. So we're just heading down the boardwalk and see what we see. Yes. The water is so crystal clear. We can see to the ground. There are so many fishes in like big fish, small fish. I'm just really like amazed by it. It's so beautiful. Wow. I mean, it's so clear. It's unbelievable. So there's actually 22 kilometers of boardwalk here which is really nice as it just winds its way through all the different lakes. It really kind of fits in with the nature of the place. It's really beautiful. Unfortunately, you're not allowed to swim here. Otherwise I would love to swim here. Snorkeling, scuba diving around these lakes here must be so beautiful. But I guess that's why the water is so beautiful, blue, green and clear. I guess that's just because, yeah, there is no human pollution in there. It can remain completely natural and completely untouched. Yes. It's beautiful. Looks like the nicest part of the upper lakes. Everyone wants to see, of course. And so if you want to see it, you're going to have to queue and have to wait. At least now we have time to just look around and enjoy the place. Lunchtime. Okay, it's quite busy, but it is really beautiful views. And that waterfall is really impressive. It's always worth it at the end, you know. So. Yeah, and it's just really nice to be walking through on this like boardwalk here the whole way through. It's like you're sort of in the middle of everything. It's really nice. Okay, we're reaching the end of the upper lakes. There's a ferry just down here, which is going to take us across one lake and that's going to take us down to the lower lakes. They're going to boat ride. You can see the amazing blue 40 meter high canyon walls. We are just trying to film a water snake. We just bought a water snake, how crazy. Yeah, how incredible is that to see? Wow. It's just there. Wow, it's so amazing. It's so amazing. And again, like so many first year and then the water snake is like a paradise. It's unbelievable. So we've already seen quite a lot of cool wildlife or in the water, but actually in the park they have bears, they have wolves, they have lynx, eagles. I mean, this park is crazy for the wildlife. It's okay, a snake, some sort of shrimpy thing and some fish. That's pretty cool. So this is the big waterfall behind us. This is actually the highest waterfall in Croatia. It's 62 meters, this part of it and actually 87 meters all the way down to the end of the waterfall system. They have some pictures there as well how it looks when it's frozen during the winter. Wow. Very, very crazy. Yeah, I think coming here in the winter would be really, really beautiful. Yeah, and you can see as well that it was quite dry the last weeks. So it's not so much water flow. Normally it's like. So you can still appreciate the height of the waterfall. Very cool. Okay, say goodbye to the lakes. Bye bye beautiful lake. We've hiked out the gorge and we're heading back to the train bus thing which is gonna take us back to the car park. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, the hike out the gorge at the end gives you the most crazy views of the whole thing and you can see the walkway all the way down down there where we came from. Yeah, that's magical. We have made it back to the car. Wow, that was a crazy location. Like the lakes are so beautiful, so blue. A lot of fish in the lake, very, very nice and lots of them as well. Like it was really special. It was really, really special. But one thing must be said, it is very, very busy with one million people visiting a year. I mean, you have to expect that there is gonna be a crowd but yeah, from the start to the finish there are people along that walkway. There are many different trails you can take but you have to always use the boardway so there is no right or left. You can't escape. Like you're just walking on the trail and people are in front of you or at the back of you. Yeah, so if you wanna stop to take a picture it's like you're gonna block someone's way automatically and this is happening over and over again so it is quite difficult there. So be warned, if you are not a fan of busy, touristic spots then this place probably isn't for you because it is incredibly touristic. But very well laid out. It was really well maintained and super organized. I'm super impressed with that. Yeah, they had like a boat every like five minutes, a bus every five minutes. So yeah, they're ready. They can handle the amount of people that are here. But yeah, you just don't have a lot of time to stop and take photos or stop and take in the view. Also the price, it was 33 Euro per person plus the parking is every hour 1 Euro 50 about. It's quite pricey. It's not like the cheapest place to visit but yeah, it's the main attraction here in Croatia so we just had to go. You just have to take those downsides and just go and do it and just try to see the beauty of it, I guess. And doing the winter time is actually cheaper and I guess less people. So if you're up to just visited during the winter time. Yeah, exactly. So we really hope that you enjoyed this episode. If you did, please give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to the channel. We will see you next time. If you enjoyed watching this video, you would help us a lot by subscribing to the channel by clicking here. Thanks so much for watching guys. We will see you next time.