Imotski

We took a day trip to Imotski for a friend’s birthday. The drive during the day was beautiful though the sunset over the mountains on the way back was amazing as well. Imotski is this little village about an hour from Split and feels like it only has 100 houses in the entire town. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imotski

There is this amazing guy that we met (and I can’t remember his name) but he started this music program in the local schools. He was some big musician in Zagreb but got tired of what he was doing and went back to Imotski. Now he composes and has gotten almost every child to play an instrument in school.

Another fun thing is what’s called and Imotski Tort. It’s made with almond flower, egg whites, sugar and a normal pastry crust. The interesting thing about it is the intricate latticework crust and almonds that are used for decoration (they stick them straight up in the dough).

The River Vrljika is a karst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst) river that flows for 14.3 miles (23 km) through Imotski’s fields. We ate lunch at this restaurant that was outside right on the edge of a slower part of the river. The water is so clear that you can see the plants growing at the bottom. I’ll put up some pictures below for you to see what I mean.

They also have Blue Lake and Red Lake with better pictures on Google maps than what I took so I’ll give you the link. They are named for the colour of the rock that surrounds them. Blue lake you can swim in and actually drink out of if you go to the center when the water levels are high. The natural spring that feeds it is really clean but during the summer it can dry up almost completely.

Here is the Google maps link: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sugexp=pfwc&cp=5&gs_id=j&xhr=t&q=imotski&qe=SW1vdHM&qesig=QBEx7jJWIH55I00Bsvrh9w&pkc=AFgZ2tlkJfRHpYghn3h1PVyEQCdDC6q-pPSc4G2mK0wZto1cwQpbzfOs05bisc66aqIwKh8OUD4UG4XREbms1sW7lXc_YWiCjg&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1061&bih=702&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x134adebc53e4ff0f:0x61c7d86de62a3859,Imotski,+Croatia&ei=ijmDTt7YOIOmhAfWjaGXDw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CDsQ8gEwAg

The plants in the river

Look how clear that is!!

The sunset behind the mountains.
That’s all for now as my computer is about to die (12% battery) and I’m going to the beach!