I swam across, flew over, dived into, and hiked along the fabulous rivers of Croatia. I did that to write a book and make a film about Croatian rivers.
Maybe no other European country has such diverse, yet so preserved rivers as Croatia. Adriatic coast is world-known, crystal clear sea, rocky coastline with ancient stone towns like Dubrovnik...The sea is however not the only richness of the Croatia. Its rivers are surely one of the most important values. From murky and slow lowland rivers that flood huge floodplains; through short and fast mountainous rivers that flush on rapids; then rivers in Karlovac region with travertine waterfalls and slow, almost marshy parts with lush vegetation; quiet rivers in karst polje that are lost in the dark underground only to spring at other place; until big Adriatic rivers in deep barren canyons with waterfalls, that meet the sea in narrow estuaries like Zrmanja or wide delta like Neretva.
Confluence of two rivers and canyons (Zrmanja and Krupa rivers)
The most beuutiful source of the river - The Korana River
Red deer crossing the river
The Danube River as Amazon
Diving in the underwater jungle
Exploring the waterfalls of Krka
Carp in the Drava River
Deers crossing the Drava River
Flood on the Danube
Under the Krka waterfall
Moonscape of Zrmanja estuary
Rafing on the Cetina River
Misty sunrise on Štrbački buk waterfall, the Una River
Shoal of endemic fish in Krka
Snake eating the fish on Danube
Diving in the deep Cetina source (150m+)
Sand martins from steep banks of the Drava
Drava and Mura rivers flowind side by side
Flood on the Drava
Waterafll on the Krka River
Frozen waterfalls on the Korana River
Water mill on the Mrežnica River
The maze of forest on the Krka River
The island with minastery on the Krka island
The deep source of the Cetina River
Confluence of Drava and Danube rivers
Boys on gravel bars on the Drava
Krka waterfalls
Pike on the Drava
Braided stream on the Drava River
Huge gravel bar on the Drava River
The Odra River in summer
Rapids on the Mirna River
Watermill on the Mirna River
Paklenica beneath Anića kuk rock
Common tern nesting on the gravel bars
Rainbow trout in the Gacka RIver
Wild Krupa canyon with waterfalls
The dice snake with a fish in Mrežnica River
