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WELCOME TO ACTIVE LIFE

If you are a sport enthusiast, or you are planning to become one, we can offer you a lot of activities.
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Nordic walking

Develop strength and endurance with this increasingly popular form of walking where you activate the entire body. Combined with nature and fresh air are particularly suitable to health. It was originally designed as a summer training for skiers, actively involves 90 percent of body muscles and increases calorie consumption 20-45 percent.

Nordic walking is suitable for any age, and all you need is a pair of sports shoes, comfortable sportswear, matching pair of Nordic walking sticks and good will.

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Group sports

In the lush, green garden of our resort you can play football, volleyball, badminton, table tennis or try archery. If you like bicycling, Plitvice Lakes have one of the most beautiful cycling routes in Europe.

If you prefer to rest on a deck chair with a good book, you can also enjoy the fragrance and beauty of our garden with a view at children’s playground.
Near Etno Garden we can arrange for you:

• rafting • kayaking • horseback riding.

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Team building

We provide a possibility to organize group events such as seminars, team buildings, promotions, business meetings etc.

Our resort has 2 multifunctional conference rooms which accomodate up to 55 persons.

Enable your colleagues work and socialize in the beautiful surrounding of the National park Plitvice Lakes.

SAUNA

To make your vacation complete, we can offer you sauna.

Indulge all your senses after a long walk through the nature.

If that is not enough, you can always lay at our longue zone at the garden

and drink some traditional Croatian drink or you

can go to our wine basement while the

kids are playing on the fresh air.

DESTINATIONS TO VISIT

Explore beautiful places places near Plitvice Lakes and enjoy untouched and unoque nature and facilities.
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Rastoke

The lobby of Plitvice Lakes, also known as Male Plitvice. Unlike lakes, Rastoke are special because in this lush greenery on the islets and rocks, human raised their settlements three hundred years ago.

Naturehas created this area forthousands of years, man has accepted it and used the lakes and rapids in order to build the home-mills.

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Barać caves

Pearl of the underworld, which was created by the nature millions of years ago. The caves were used as a habitat for people during prehistoric times and in the middle ages. Experience the charm of absolute darkness and distant past with a look in the Dragon’s Gorge and the Hall of the lost souls. Tour of Upper Barac’s cave is organized with an expert guide and lasts 45-60 minutes, and guides are available in Croatian, English, German and Italian.

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River Gacka

The beauty of Gacka River is impassable and that is why even those who only se it once fall in love with it. A special pleasure is provided by the intact nature of the European Beauty, at the same time offering active, quiet and healthy holiday in nature, with clean mountain air, strolling, hunting and fishing for the autochthonous stream trout. 

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Kuterevo (Shelter for young bears)

Peek into this bears refuge, situated on the slopes of Velebit in Lika. This is home forbears that are accidentally or due to poaching separated from their mothers when they were too young to live independently. They were raised with the help of the people, never manage to acquire skills necessary for independent living. Therefore, they never go to their natural habitat but stay in the shelter that is, for the time being, a unique project in the world. In fact, only the enthusiasm of several bear lovers and the wholehearted support of experts open for bears and the ecological / ethno-village for tourist visits.

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Smiljan “Memorial Nikola Tesla”

The little village near Gospić in Lika, where was in 1856 born the great scientist Nikola Tesla.This Memorial Centar was built in his honor, his life path is shown in pictures, words and sounds. Tesla’s birth house has completely been restored and converted into a museum with an unpublished documentary material. There are often organized various activities and events of educational character. Enjoy Tesla’s inventions and at least for a moment feel the genius that was far ahead of its time.

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Cerovac caves

Cerovacke caves are the largest and most interesting, four kilometers southwest of Gračac, the north eastern slope of Mount Velebit Crnopac (1403 m), in the southern part of Velebit Nature Park. They were discovered during the construction of the Lika railway in 1924, and revealed them to the builder stripes Nikola Turkalj. They are named after the railway station Cerovac. These caves are one of the biggest cave bear in Croatia, and were found to take on human fossil bones and a bronze ax. The average temperature in the caves is 11 ° C.