A UNESCO World Heritage site, the Plitvice
Lakes National Park is a necklace of 16 turquoise alpine lakes
encircling 3 mountains in the Dinaric Alps. As the insert from
Wikipedia shows, it's almost at the tip of the
Bosnia-Herzegovina arrowhead that cuts into the crescent called
Croatia. (These lakes drain into the Korana river which
separates Croatia from Bosnia and Herzegovina.) Croatia's first
battle of its 1990 war of independence with the Serb-dominated
Yugoslav army occurred here -- an all day battle that resulted
in a death on each side. Things would get much worse.
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