Sightseeings Plitvice - Recommendations for your Holiday in Plitvice
Lake Milanovac or Milanovo
It was named, according to the legend, after a shepherd Mile who drowned in it, or after a miller Mile Perisic who owned a mill at the lake. This lake, the biggest of all of the Lower lakes, is located 532m above the sea level. Its depth is 18m in the beginning section. Its length is 470m and width varies from 50 to 90m. It occupies an area of 0.03 square km. The water colour varies from bluish to greenish, depending on daily light or on the brightness of the sky and the lake is edged as a walkway for the sightseeing. Scars and dark holes in the cliffs along the lower path are testifying of existence of semi - caves and caves. The eastern section of the Milanovci lake waterfalls are descending into the lower placed lake. These were named "Milka Trnina waterfalls" as a sign of thankfulness to this talented Croatian opera singer, who helped in 1897 the then "Society for protection and emballishment of the Plitvice Lakes".
Gavanovac or Gavanovo lake
The lake is located on the peak elevation of 514m above the sea level. As the legend is saying, the Gavanovo treasure disappeared in this lake. The lake is 100m long, 65m wide and occupies an area of 0.01square km. Its depth is 10m which is normal for water accumulation in a stony cannyon surroundings.
There is a path branching off from these cascades right up to an impressive dark hole of Supljara cave. A dark hole of the Blue cave (Modra pecina) is visible on the way to the cave, it used to be entered by boat in the past times.
Kaluderovo lake
It was named after "kaluder" - which means a monk, a hermit who once used to live either in a semi - cave just next to the water or in the upper cave at the canyon edge.
This lake is situated 505m above the sea level. Its depth is 13m, in an area of 0.02 km2, the lake's length is 225m, and its width varies from 70 to 100m. The sheerest canyon section made of about 40m high rocks above it and the beginning section of the lake and sections close to the shore, are covered by reeds, which is an obvious evidence of eutrophication of the lake area.
Novakovica brod lake
According to a tale indicates "crossing or transportation" of Novakovic. From the previous lake it is separated only by 2m high travertine barrier and it is the last of the Plitvice Lakes. It is situated 503m above the sea level, 3m deep and it occupies an area of 0.003 square km. It is 90m wide and 50m long. Between a travertine cascade of Kaluderovac and Novakovica brod, there is a tourist walkway going down from the Entrance point 1 towards the Plitvica river waterfall and then further on around the Lower lakes in the direction of Kozjak.
At the end of Novakovica brod, on a layer covered by bushes, there is a large number of waterfalls of various width that are falling down over a vertical line on the enlarged depression. This depression is called Sastavci.
After falling down the 76m high limestone rock, the Plitvica stream takes away its water over a ten meters long horizontal bed.
The difference in height between the level of Proscansko lake and the beginning of the Korana river spring is 158m.
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