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What’s the big deal with St Mark’s Church in Zagreb anyway? Can anyone notice something special about it? We’re so lucky we found this objective and eloquent review – imagine if someone made a detour to Croatia’s capital just to find it’s…mhew.
Find this story on Episode 03 of Croatia Underrated podcast:
This traveller went easy on river Zrmanja and gave it as much as a three-stars-review… even though, as he says, it’s more expensive than in Africa, and you can see longer rivers in South America.
You should take this review very seriously. If you’re coming to Croatia for the rivers, better change your plans. There are only 30-ish rivers that are longer than 40 km, and that’s still nothing when compared to, let’s say, Amazon. Croatia’s many river springs only make the country one of the richest sources of drinking water – nothing special about plain water if you ask me. If Zrmanja is one of the visually most stunning rivers of Croatia, with it’s green and blue serpent-like shape carved deep into rocks, than you know you should just turn around and not even bother visiting any rivers of Croatia.
Those 16th century Benedictines really don’t know how to make a proper fort, do they? As the review says, there are other forts in the area. Actually the whole town is called Kaštela – very similar to English word “Castles” or Forts. There are seven castles, each one a part of a small historical town, each of them centuries old. But this one, Kaštel Gomilica, is especially lame, built on a reef. Whatever. We wonder why did they choose precisely this unimpressive one to act as Braavos in Game of Thrones.
Don’t you just hate it when the names are misleading?
They call this lake in Imotski „Red Lake”. It’s only because of the colour of the cliffs…and as a contrast to the nearby Blue Lake (that is actually blue, according to online reviews). I would expect the water to be red, hopefully radioactive, filled with blood, or whatever it takes to make the water red!
What a bad practice to use traditional naming for natural phenomena! Doesn’t anyone bother to rethink such names to meet the expectations of visitors!? This deserves no more than two stars on Google Places. A big thanks to everyone who sorted this out on Google, Tripadvisor etc, and made it clear to the unsuspecting tourists that the lake is not red!
Do yourself a favour and don’t even bother to check out yet another sinkhole. If you check out other sh**ty reviews, you will know what I mean: the rocks are too tall and steep which makes it impossible to reach the water. All you can do is enjoy the view. Really? Give us one good reason to do that. Half of Croatia lies on karst anyway, so what’s the point of looking at another karst phenomenon? More importantly, what’s the point of just looking at one of the deepest lakes in Europe (if not the deepest one)? Croatia, you disappoint once more.
Thanks to this wonderful one-star-review on TripAdvisor, you are bound to ask yourself the same question and hopefully not make the same mistake as this unimpressed tourist.
She definitely has a strong point there. Zagreb funicular is indeed one of the shortest railways in the world. Not to mention the price of the ticket: it’s almost a full dollar! (it’s getting there as the dollar keeps dropping.) So, take this advice seriously, save your cents and don’t bother to go for a ride!