What to do and see in Starigrad-Paklenica, Croatia: The Best Places and Tips

Due to its unique natural features, magnificent Forests and extraordinary geomorphologic structures, the area of Velika and Mala Paklenica was proclaimed a national park in 1949. The main reason for proclaiming this area a national park was the protection of the largest and best preserved forest complex in the territory of Dalmatia, which was threatened by overexploitation. The Paklenica National Park stretches on the area of 95 km2 , on the littoral slope of South Velebit under the zone of highest mountain peaks Vaganski vrh (1752) and Sveto brdo (1753).

The main reason of starting our own business was love for sports especially passion for outdoor sports. Both of us were former athletes and personalities that did not like office jobs (prime reason to start our own business). Frane and I (Katarina) wanted to reconsider and reinvent community we lived in. Then we discovered rock climbing through our friend. Even though so many tourists came to Paklenica just for climbing only few locals (including us) understood them, their need or better call it crave to climb. Climbing was not a sport which belonged to our local culture or tradition. Alpinism and climbing was brought to us by others in late 30's, and since then only "others" had guts and love to explore beautiful rocks and serene nature of NP Paklenica. But we changed these facts in 2010 when we opened our service shop for climbers. Paklenica Avanturist ltd. wanted to change local attitude and local people mindset towards climbing, to offer some local service to foreign climbers in our destination and that is basically what we continued doing by now. As a small team of local climbers and hikers we love to hang out with people who enjoy nature and rocks, and we love hosting them.

Mountain Traveller Croatia is e-tourist agency located in Seline, a small tourist town on the coast, below the Paklenica National Park. Within 80km district there are few national parks: Krka, Plitvice, Kornati and North Velebit, Nature park Velebit and river Zrmanja with its tributaries Krupa and Krnjeza (cca 20 km) which provides the ideal combination of water and land sports. We are specialized for hiking&trekking, walking tours, mountain running trainings, 4x4 guided off-road tours, trail race organizing, outdoor location scouting. We offer to our customers a complete experience with unforgettable memories. When hiring a professional mountain guide you get a professional, safe and high quality service. Our guides have knowledge and experience in mountain guiding, we have skills necessary to make your trip relaxed and safe. We can offer many different hiking tours, but also provide you an unique arrangement on your request.