Croatia Trip - Day 13 - Brijuni Islands

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Brijuni Islands mean many: group of islands, romantic beaches, prehistorical archipelago, national park, zoo and Tito.  The islands are 6 km away from the mainland of Istria.  To go there, first call to get a place in any arranged tours, take a bus to Fažana, a tranquil fishing village and then jump onto any scheduled boats to visit the main island.  There a tourist train will tour you around.  Of course, you can stay behind and appreciate the beauty, nature and archipelago as long as you like.  Hotels are nearby.


Let's start from Fažana.   We arrived the sleeping fishing village pretty early.  After we have got our boat tickets, we walked around the town, the seafront, the port to enjoy a very nice start of the day.  Bravo!



It's a short ride to the Brijuni National Park.  A tour guide welcomed us at the port, introduced the programme of the day, showed us a church right at the port and got us into a tourist train around the island.  We passed by wonderful tree allee, undulating landscape, seafront, roman villa ruins and arrived at the zoo.  There were many animals wandering freely within a big fence.  It is unfortunate that they were far.  Naja, it's great to see zebra in the wild.

Then we were brought to Tito's museum.  Loads of pictures were shown, including many national officials and delegates being greeted and served there. 

Big piece of land was occupied by remains of luxurious Roman villas, overlooking the sea and the alluring natural beauty.  Among all, you can find temples to Neptune, Venus, Byzantine castles and the basilica of St. Mary.  Look, the remains were really rich and beautiful in the old days.


It was a beautiful day. We wanted to get into the water.  However, it was too windy and the water too cold.  Well, we missed the chance to swim at the only nude beach in our trip.  There wasn't anybody around.


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