Plitvice Lakes in 4 days

The highest waterfall in Croatia, a 78-metre drop where the Plitvica stream falls into the Korana canyon, at its strongest in April and May.

A cave open at both ends above Kaluđerovac lake, entered from the lower boardwalks and left thirty metres higher by a narrow, damp stone stairway.

Four lakes set in a limestone canyon with 40-metre walls, Milanovac, Gavanovac, Kaluđerovac and Novakovića Brod, each spilling into the next.

A wooden platform on the cliff above the lower lakes, looking down the chain of turquoise pools and waterfalls towards Veliki Slap.

The largest of the sixteen lakes, 46 metres deep, crossed by a silent electric boat in about twenty minutes between piers P2 and P3.

Twelve lakes over about a hundred metres of height in a wider, wooded valley, with massive travertine barriers covered in living moss.

The highest and southernmost lake, at 636 metres, two kilometres long in a closed forest valley where the whole system begins.

Thirty kilometres north, wooden and stone houses stand on the travertine falls where the Slunjčica meets the Korana, with a few watermills still turning.