Unique Places in Dubrovnik

The Pomena Bay and the hotel Odisej offers spectacular view in the twilight. It is the time of the day when the small port become very bussy place. Many boats and yachts enters in a bay to spend the night in well protected harbour. It's almost funny watching yacht holders who showing up between each others, whos boat is bigger and more luxury or which boat is hosting more attractive girls.

The islet of St. Mary is situated in the middle of the Big Lake, inside the National Park, and it is its the most attractive place in whole of Mljet. There is a beautiful Benedictine monastery, on the islet, built by monks of the Appian order from the Mount of Gargano in Appulia, Italy. The marked walking paths lead you you all around the islet, offering stunning views and undisturbed silince. This monks had good eye to pick up the real beauty and make it own property. Some of the most attractive resorts on the Adriatic belonging to various orders of monks.

Pomena is one of the few villages on island of Mljet, situated in its most southern part. Hotel Odisej is the only hotel resort on the entire island, which offers standard type of accomodation and very good restaurant. I've spend two weeks here enjoying in completely relaxed atmosphere.
It could be a bit boring though, especially for the youngsters, no discoteque or any other place with music. I couldn't find any playground for the sports games on enire island, not even for the football. On the other hand, trim paths for the joggers are almost perfect.

tel. 00385/20/744022, fax 744042
E-mail hotel.odisej@atlas.tel.hr

The admission into the National Park is about 8 Euros for day-trip visitors, including all boat transfers inside the park.
It is exclusevely free, all the times, for those who are guests of hotel Odisej. Some tourists prefer bathing in the lakes probably due to a fact that the temperature of the water is higher then the temperature of the sea-water.

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If one is passionate photographer and goes for one day trip to some beautiful place he/she prays God for a nice sunny day. That's exactly what I did, took plane from Zagreb to Dubrovnik in order to take pics only. I was in Dubrovnik, several times before, but have lost all my previously made pics.
It was nice sunny day in my hometown and I was hoping to find the same weather conditions in Dubrovnik too, but wasn't that lucky. There was stormy on my way especially after passing the town of Split. Dubrovnik was covered by the heavy rainy clouds and almost invisible, bad luck indeed. However, it wasn't total disaster at the end, I had some short periods with sun too.

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WE did not stop there, and it was a distance from the highway, but it looked like an interesting place you could enjoy. Dubrovnik built a wall for defense of this area; about 40 kilometers north of the town back in 1333. It was to protect Dubrovnik salt deposits, which were valuable trade for them. It also was to keep out intruders from raids against the main town. It was the 2nd longest wall built in that time-behind the Great wall of course. Most people living around the area relied on the salt revenue, and Dubrovnik was a very large trader of goods in the central Europe continent. It had the 2nd largest fleet of ships back in 15th-16th centuries.

Amazing is the first word spoken when sighting the bridge. Then a stream of words flow out, beautiful, unbelievable, expansive, modern wonder, and in this area so near an ancient walled city. But, there it stood.

A tribute to modern man that adds a little punch to the coastline of the Dalmatian Islands. Just a little north-west of the town, one of the largest stay cable bridges in Europe, Dr. Franjo Tudjmann Bridge, on the main road to the old town of Dubrovnik. Take a boat ride and see it from the sea for a full view of this modern marvel.

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A trip up the coast will reward travellers with spectacular coastal scenery and pretty villages of red roofed buildings and tall bell-towers. Ideally you should hire a car to properly explore the villages and towns along the coast towards the town of Ston. However from buses along the coast you can still admire the stunning views from the bus as it curves and twists its way through the coastal mountains along the turquoise waters of the Adriatic. Some of the villages you pass on the way, are disgustingly beautiful...if you know what I mean ;)...my disgust stemming from the fact that I was stuck on a bus and not wandering around these gorgeous little sea-side villages on foot. If I was going...or should I say...when I go back I will definitely be hiring a car to explore the Dalmatian coast more freely.