Activities in Makarska Riviera & Split Riviera
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ACTIVITIES IN MAKARSKA RIVIERA & SPLIT RIVIERA BeWeb: active www.orvas and-hotels.com enjoy Croatia/ E-mail: orvas [email protected] Orvas way / ...Tel: + 385 (0)21 735 393 / Fax: + 385 (0)21 735 090 / Skype: booking.orvas.hotels Fortis Trail ...3 Wine Trail...3 Unknown Dalmatia...4 The Days of Bikla...4 Picking of Strawberries...4 Dear guests, ORVAS HOTELS aims to give all its guests an authentic experience of their chosen destination. Picking of Grapes...5 Picking of Apples...5 Konoba (Tavern) Kremenko...6 We would like to provide you with useful information that will make it simpler to plan your trip, help you be better informed about your chosen destination and give you plenty of suggestions for how to spend your time. Massages...7-8 Rituals...9 Hands & Legs Care...10 ORVAS HOTELS has made special arrange- ments with the best firms and agencies on the Makarska Riviera & Split Riviera in order to offer its guests plenty of possibilities for a really memorable vacation! Sauna World...11-12 Sauna Rituals...12 Evening on the top of Biokovo...13 We usually say our guests to RELAX AND ENJOY CROATIA THE ORVAS WAY, but with this program we are expanding possibili- ties and therefore we would like you to BE ACTIVE AND STILL ENJOY CROATIA Dawn on the top of Biokovo...13 Ascent to Biokovo...13 Rafting along Cetina River...14 THE ORVAS WAY... Web: www.orvas-hotels.com / E-mail: [email protected] / Tel: + 385 (0)21 735 393 / Fax: + 385 (0)21 735 090 / Skype: booking.orvas.hotels 1 Sea kayaking - in Brela...14 Imotski Lakes...14 Mountain bike - Makarska Riviera...15 Mountain bike - Biokovo..15 Mountain bike - Island of Brač...15 Abundance of views...16 Canyoning on Cetina River...16 Canoe Safari on Cetina River...16 Through the villages under Biokovo...17 Horse back riding - Sinj...17 Hiking through Karst...17 Through Cetina Canyon...18 Plitvice Lakes ...18 Island of Brač...18 Krka Waterfalls...18 VIR rafting...19-20 Rent a car...21-22 Web:Web: www.orvaswww.orvas--hotels.comhotels.com // EE--mail:mail: [email protected]@orvas.hr // Tel:Tel: ++ 385385 (0)21(0)21 735735 393393 // Fax:Fax: ++ 385385 (0)21(0)21 735735 090090 // Skype:Skype: bookinbooking.orvas.hotelsg.orvas.hotels 2 Our partner organizes a lot of attractive tourist programmes and excursions through the surroundings around mountain Biokovo. Hiking tours through the trialof Alberto Fortis, climbing the peaks of Biokovo, going down to a mine's hole and underground rivers, mountaine bike tours, wine roads, rowing down the river in an old Fortis Trail (The trip on foot) Wine Trail boat etc open us the hidden Dalmatia in all its primordial beauty. Of course, you'll find there It is one of the most beautiful tour. The nature and the smell of the aromatic Coming to the Vrgorac field «Jezero» unforgettable getting’s together in old paths, which once connected the plants which will make you a part of the which looks like a pool. It is coastal part and zagora were mostly nature, of the space you can't see in surrounded by the mountain passes original Dalmatian ambience, disappeared and are alive again thanks to Europa. You'll meet the old trades and see from all sides and looks like a sea strawberry, apple and grapes the great number of nature lovers and the traces of the eternal fight of a man which has about 15 millions of vine picking... visitors od an unspoiled nature. The with a nature in these areas. stocks. Going around includes walking eternal play of stone and rare plants gives through plantations, getting known All that can give you an to this trip a touch of an adventure, almost vine plants etc.. After that we come to unforgettable experience of the identical to those, about which the Italian In Kokorići, in the tower (a birth-place) of the place Milošići and drive with connection of life with nature as it travel writer Alberto Fortis wrote in his Duke Prvan «Prže» you'll be awaited with traditional wooden boats. The guests was before, to give you energy and book «Viaggio in Dalmazia». karst-fruits: dried figs, brandy, cheese, row by themselves to the place take you away from your everyday Dalmatian pršut (ham), goat cheese, bread Staševica (ca 1 hour). life just for a while. Feel you too the spirit of the past time ant (under «peka»)-everything home-made. turn back with us to the year 1770 when Lunch in the konoba (tavern) Pervan with From Staševica drive by bus to the Alberto Fortis was going through these specialities under «peka» or from the ethno-village Kokorići, to the tavern paths across the mountains Biokovo and roasting-spit). Wines «Prvan» and (konoba) and ethno-collection Prvan. Rilić to the small settlement Kokorići After that visiting of the underground «Bunina» etc. where he met the duke Antun Prvan river «Betina», the tower of Duke «Pržo», whose guest he was. By this Antun Prvan (Prže) and Hasanaginica, opportunity, staying in the castle which is dated in 15 th century. At the end the preserved until today, he wrote down one guest get rich by home-made of the most beautiful ballads written in specialities like pršut (ham), goat Croatian language «Hasanaginica», which cheese, lamb and bread under «peka», has still today the same lifepower and wines «Prvan» and «Bunina». original beauty. There is an original assumption that Hasanaginica was born in the village Kokorići. All our guests were delighted. Check Walking through the paths of our why! ancestors you can feel the unspoiled 3 Unknown Dalmatia The Days of Bikla Picking of Strawberries Shorter drive by bus across «Stupica» to To come to Kokorići and not to taste Visiting of Hasanaginica tower and the the place «Ravče», ca 30 min walking on «bikla» means not to feel the unique underground river Betina. the Hill Krčunice to the field Kokorići. strength of combination of stone and life Programme: The fruits of the Paradise-valley Kokorići. In the field visiting the spring of «Betina» in a drink of cyclamen colour which is Take place in the experience and pick the which overflows this karst field every good for soul and body. You mustn’t miss - Arrival by bus to Vrgorac about 9.00. sweetest strawberries in the country on the year. that opportunity. The «Days of bikla» will Sightseeing (Tower etc 1-2 hours) most fertile fields of the village of Kokorići. Lunch in the tavern Prvan in the ethno- help you to realize how small things are - Departure to Kokorići Those paradise fruits will give your mouth the village Kokorići, after the lunch visiting great and how the impossible combination - Visit of underground river Betina feeling to be a part of that paradise garden the village and driving by bus to the field of two ingrediences is possible. You can - Visit of the plantation of strawberries which is surrounded by a beautiful and cruel of Jezero along the spring and brook find such an experience only in Kokorići. and vineyards Dalmatian karst. Matica (ca 20 min). After that drive by - Visit of ethno-village, collection and «trupica» (traditional boat - capacity 25 To the honour of goat and vine plant! tower of duke Prvan Programme: persons). It takes about 50 minutes and - Lunch in the tavern (konoba) ca 12.00 ends in Staševica near Ploče. What is bikla? (degustation of bikla during the lunch) - Arrival to the plantation at 8.00, aperitif, Return to the hotels is planned for 16.00 - Going down to the field “Jezero” strawberries, picking strawberries (1-2 hours), so that the excursion can be treated as Bikla is an unique mixture of red wine walking through vineyards possibility of buying strawberries picked by longer half-day excursion what gives the (must) and fresh goat milk. It is typical - Driving by old boats from Stinjevac to yourself guests the opportunity to have a bath etc for these areas and it was drunk in the Lukavac (1-1.30 hours) - Visiting of ethno-village and collection after the excursion. evenings at the fire places, talking the - Departure by bus from Lukavac at 14.15 - Lunch in Kokorići in the tavern «Prvan» at legends. Except by interesting colour across Baćinska jezera (lakes) to the 11.45, aperitif, cold hors-d'oeuvre, meat under We recommend sports equipment! bikla is very healthy, it is actually an hotels on Makarska Riviera « peka» 1/ l wine or juice per person excellent cocktail. This drink offers you - 12.45 across the field Jezero and endless the youth and the joy of life. plantations of vineyards , coming to Stinjevac. Drive by old boats down the river Matica (ca 1.30 hour) to Lukavac. At 14.45 departure across attractive Baćinska jezera (lakes) to the hotels on the Makarska riviera Web: www.orvas-hotels.com / E-mail: [email protected] / Tel: + 385 (0)21 735 393 / Fax: + 385 (0)21 735 090 / Skype: booking.orvas.hotels 4 Picking of Grapes Picking of Apples September - October Apple was allways been a sign of love Vrgorac, cca 20. 09. – 20. 10. and health. It was a gift to lovely peoples. Wine cellar Lunch. Kokorići- Tavern (Konoba) Sightseeing «Prvan» Description of excursion: Winedegustation -Aperitif Wine-production - Hors-d’ oeuvre - Arrival to the plantation of apples in Dalmatian pršut (ham) - Meal under “peka” the field Rastok at 08.00 Cheese - 1/2 l wine or juice per person - Aperitif and fruits Olives - fruits - Picking of apples (1-2 hours) - Departure by bus to ethno-village Kokorići at 10.15 where it is organized: Gift-bottle (one litre per person) In the price is included: visiting of underground river Betina, - Music walking through plantations of - Lunch strawberries, visiting of ethno village, Plantation of vineyards (ca 1 hour) - Guide visiting of the tower of duke Prvan and - Picking of grapes - 1/2 l wine (drink) wine-shop, at 11.45 lunch in the tavern - Music - plantation photo Prvan - Aperitif - Kokorići-tavern Prvan - driving by bus through vineyards to - Figs - Excursion Stinjevac - Nut - Enclosures - driving by old boat to Lukavac (1-1.30 - Almond hours) - at 14.15 return by bus from Lukavac across Baćinska lakes towards the hotels on Makarska Riviera 5 Hvar Off-Road Tour The Konoba (tavern) Kremenko made in a cave.