Campsites,Yugoslavia #2of3

Near Busovaca we found a large, rather new hotel with several restaurants. I hooked up our electric cord in the restaurant, then ran it out the back door of the hotel to the campsite on a grassy area. Campsite cost $2.36. We wonder why they have such a large hotel with several large, expensive restaurants way out in the country side.

The Zagreb Auto Camp is about the only “drive-through” campsite we found in Europe. At six in the morning, the police knocked on our door to investigate the “Canceled” passports we had left at the office, but we satisfied their curiosity. In 1989 in this campsite, we met a bus load of people from Krakow, Poland. Travel was expensive for them, they brought most all their food from home, and had eaten no fresh bread since they left. The campsite bakery supplied very tasty bread at a very low price, so the next morning I had the idea of buying fresh bread for everyone on the bus. The last of the big spenders!

Plitvica National Park is where 16 lakes waterfall from one to the next over four or five miles. A beautiful natural wonder. The campsite in Plitvica was excellent, and there were lots of campers, but it rained, and rained all night. The facilities and the stores in the campground are as nice as can be, but there isn’t enough level parking. We were very careful where we parked, but some people are having problems driving up the wet grassy slopes to get out of here. The walking tour of the park was exceptional. This is a unique natural phenomenon.

The campsite in Ivangrad is located next to a Government owned and operated hotel. The facilities are in the hotel building, and there are restaurants for those who care.

An earthquake destroyed most of Budva in 1979. When we visited in 1989 they had just finished reconstruction. As I said, “A brand new, thousand year old town.” Beautiful, magnificent. In the campsite near Budva there was a group of about 25 trailers from the Netherlands, on a trip organized and conducted by their Auto Club. We’ve seen that many times.

At the campsite, near Kardeljevo, I watched on Yugoslavian TV as an Chinese-American won the French Open Tennis Match. After talking with some people in this campsite, we decided to visit the island of Hvar, just a few miles from here. And that was the right thing to do.