Best croatia & slovenia travel guides according to redditors
We found 2 Reddit comments discussing the best croatia & slovenia travel guides. We ranked the 2 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 2 Reddit comments discussing the best croatia & slovenia travel guides. We ranked the 2 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
I solo traveled through the Balkans quite a bit, and you're going to love it!
When you're in Slovenia, Ljubljana is a great base for day trips. If you have the time, I would highly recommend renting a car and checking out the following places:
If you rent a car, you can easily do a couple of these in a day.
For Croatia, I would try to hit up:
Split and Dubrovnik and really beautiful places, but in my opinion they have been ruined by the number of tourists, esp. Dubrovnik. Holy shit number of people in Dubrovnik. You can barely move in that city. Don't get me wrong, it's stupidly cool to walk around the city wall and 'see' kings landing, but it's not really worth it in my opinion. Not to mention that Dubrovnik was easily the most expensive Croatian city that i went to. I would say that I had this conversation with about a dozen people in my hostel, and almost all of them agreed with this. If you have limited time, I'd honestly give Dubrovnik a pass (it is a great launching point to go to Mostar and Kotor, though). Split is better, and I really enjoyed the old palace. Didn't go to Zadar.
If you're trying to hit up an island and have a unique experience, try couchsurfing at Hvar with this guy. You'll be 'camping' at this private beach with other CSers, and it's incredibly cool.
For B&H:
If you're going to be near Dubrovnik anyway, I'd highly recommend:
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General tips, notes, suggestions:
Good luck, have fun, and let me know if you have any questions!
I did 5 weeks on $500 in 1998. It's easy to pinch pennies. I also had no plan. I got off the plane in Paris and the only thing i knew was I had to be back at the same airport in 5 weeks. i picked a direction and started walking.
bring a tent - campgrounds are very inexpensive. the tent also provides emergency shelter in a field or on a beach if you get stuck. those were some of my best nights.
hostels are cheap and amazing.
always carry food with you. you can find bread, cured meat, peanut butter, nutella, cheese & grapes everywhere, and inexpensively.
buy and carry a bottle of wine with you instead of going out. I loved sharing wine at the campgrounds.
like /jimhodgson mentioned, travel through small towns. they're full of friendly people who are likely eager to share drinks, food and laughs with you.
I think I had this book: http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Planet-Europe-shoestring-Travel/dp/1742204171
every town I got to, the very first thing i would do would be to consult the book. it would tell me where campgrounds and all the quality inexpensive experiences were at. of course my trip was before the smartphone. there might be a lighter alternative now. =) then i would head for the campground and set up camp. then head out
good luck and be safe!
favorite places: Dijon France, Lyon France (check out the huge park and rose garden), Nice France.