We bumped into a backpacker on a train to Ljubljana that
Plitvice is a must go but it is a pain in the ass to get to by public
transportation. We met a pair of young
couple, Eric and Rena, from San Francisco at the hostel we stayed in at Pula
who was also heading to Zadar the same day.
We sold them on going to Plitvice with us.
After 4 hours of painstaking search of car rental (thanks to
Eric and Charlie), we finally got one. Plitvice
National Park was well worth the effort and the 2-hours drive! The water was ridiculously clear. You can see right through the bottom. After you starred at the water for a while,
you get confused whether the fishes are in the water or in the air. I have never seen any water so clear ever in
my life. There were also a few
waterfall, though not as spectacular as Iguazu Fall in Brazil/Argentina, the
turquoise color water with the sun shining onto it is a beauty in another way.
On our way back to Zadar, Eric, who was in his early 20s
asked us some questions surrounding the theme of “do you feel that you are
old?” and advices. At that moment I
realized that these are some of the questions in my mind when I was in my early
20s that I used to ask people older than me for advice. I hate to but have to admit that I’m no
longer the amateur, inexperience baby who just graduated from college as my
colleges more senior of me used to say.
