Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
The Plitvice lakes are Croatia's most famous national park and are among the most beautiful sights in Europe. Due to their natural diversity, they are part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Plitvice lakes consist of 16 connected lakes and numerous waterfalls, surrounded by dense forests. Many trails and small, wooden bridges, built just above the calm water, await you in Plitvice. Besides on foot, you can explore the National Park by tourist train or boat throughout the whole year. The area around this lakes is a bare karst area. The water in the lakes is karst water, very rich in soluted limestone. When it resurges at the upper end of the valley it starts to loose carbon dioxide (CO2), the gas which enables the water to solute the limestone. As soon as a little carbon dioxide is gone, the respective amount of limestone is deposited. Algae and moss helps in consuming carbon dioxide from the water for their photosynthesis. The limestone is deposited in the whole valley, but moss is able to hold the limestone and gets incrusted after some time, just to grow over the limestone again. This processes create a typical effect, the formation of huge barriers of limestone across the valley, which dam the water and form the lakes. The water flows over the dam depositing limestone on the top of it.
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