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Croatia / Bosnia And Herzegovina: Split, Marjan, Tribistovo Lake and Lake Blidinje

With Nada we woke up in Split city center and our first task was to explore it. Diocletian's Palace and Marjan hill were our main sights. Around noon we moved on and crossed the border to Bosnia and Herzegovina. We drove around Buško Blato, one of the largest accumulation lakes in Europe, visited Tomislavgrad and then picked up a few geocaches near Tribistovo Lake. Finally we reached our destination, Blidinje Lake, where we stuffed ourselves with big plate of meat. We settled in mountain lodge Orlova stina, where the rest of the cyclists joined us in the evening.

 

Split is mainly built by limestone, quarried on Brač. Statue of Gregory of Nin, a medieval Croatian bishop of Nin.

Old meets older

 

Bell tower dedicated to Saint Domnius.

  

Exploring narrow streets

 

Marko Marulić was a Croatian national poet and Renaissance humanist, known as the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age and the father of the Croatian Renaissance.

One of many squares

View to Split

 

Church of St. Nicholas, a favorite saint of fishermen, and top of Marjan hill called Telegrin

View from top of Marjan, 178 m

 

Nada, Croatian flag and the cross, built in 2013.

 

Stone house near the beach

View from the ground zero

 

Nada and Marjan, many times.

Finishing the trip around Marjan with a view to Kašjuni beach

 

Sustipan peninsula - In the early Middle Ages, there was the Benedictine monastery of St. Stephen, called 'Sub pinis' (under the pine trees), erected on this remarkable site, i. e. on the remains from the Roman and Early Christian times. The monastery was first mentioned as St. Stephen's monastery in a document dating from 1020. According to the oral tradition, established on historical documents, Croatian king Stephen lived in the monastery after he had been secluded there in the late 11th century.

 

Church of Holy Trinity, a Pre-Romanesque style Roman Catholic church.

Arrived to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Buško Blato, one of the largest accumulation lakes in all of Europe with  an area of 55.8 km² and a total volume of 782 million m³.

The Saint John the Baptist Church in Podhum

 

Driving towards Tomislavgrad

 

Testing the offroad capabilites of Angie

Tribistovo Lake

 

Man-made improvements of nature

Arrived to Blidinje, nature park established in 1995

 

Royal Tomislav beer and a little bit of meat. We ate in the motel Hajdučke vrleti, the seat of republic Hajdučka Republika Mijata Tomića.

 

Saint Anthony is one of the favorite saints in Herzegovina and a chapel was built to honour his figure and work.

GeoCaches found:
- Diocletian's Palace, GC670QE
- Cathedral of Saint Domnius, GC65H0R
- Miljenko Smoje, GC6BY0T
- Marjanske skale - na pola puta, GC5QV28
- Marjan or up, up, up in Croatia, Mystery, GC1BK88
- Marjan - Crossroads, GC5QV44
- Marjanski vidikovac, GC1V1D7
- Marjan - Prva voda, GC53282
- Marjan - Druga voda, GC5329D
- Secrets of the sea, Multi, GC6E086
- Sustipan, GC63250
- It all starts with the painter, Multi, GC6DERB
- Tribistovo Lake #1, GC744KD
- Tribistovo Lake #9, GC7A89D
- Tribistovo Lake #2, GC796FA
- Tribistovo Lake #10, GC7A890
- Stop in Blidinje, GC74RCJ
- Kapela svetog Ante, GC74ZKY