Croatia Forum

[franeymoon]

The Prevlaka Park, on the southernmost tip of Croatia,
was last year visited by about 15 thousand tourists, with a considerable
rise in the number of visitors expected this year. In order
to achieve this plan ideas are born in the park every day of how to
enrich the place’s tourist offer and how to organise the entire affair,
given that the area was for a long time used by the military and until
the present did not have a normal supply of water and electricity.

A typical Dalmatian Konoba (tavern) is currently under renovation,
the fi rst to be put into function in the area, which should open its
doors by the beginning of June and for which alternative sources
of electricity and water have been secured. Energy will be provided
by a combined solar/natural gas system, while water will be drawn
from a nearby cistern, a deep well containing some 75,000 litres of
potable water.

The Prevlaka Park is an exceptionally attractive destination as it offers
the opportunity for active holidaying in an area of pristine natural
surroundings. It is also Croatia’s most southerly point, another motive
to tourists to visit the place.

Tourists are offered the chance for an active holiday in the well-outfi
tted adrenalin park, among whose numerous attractions climbing
on artifi cial rock faces seems somehow to stand out most as does
outdoor and indoor paintball, held in a hangar also used for many
other sports.

Especially attractive to tourists are also the local “inhabitants”, the
donkeys Mišo, Mare and Kate, a family of wild pigs and some 15
Hermann’s tortoises.

Prevlaka is visited mostly by foreign guests in organised groups for
whom a rich “active” program is on offer – cycling through the countryside,
rides on a popular small train called Ćiro and ATV motorcycling
for which a kilometre long trail has been set up that leads
across the peninsula. As of this season tourists will also be offered
an opportunity to use several kayaks they’ll be able to take along the
coast to hidden and pristine beaches.

Of the numerous existing attractions, there is a safety study currently
in the works after which the installation will start of circular steps around
the Ponta Oštra fortress – the furthest point on Prevlaka so that
tourists could have the opportunity to visit and take photos from this
unique viewpoint.


taken from journalist web newsletter 05/06 http://press.croatia.hr/datoteke/2506.pdf