Where can you enjoy the great food and wine?
Island Pag is famous for his indigenous delicacies highly influenced by special weather conditions and climate on the island. Pag is full of Mediterranean plants naturally salted with sea salt. Plants and grass are salted because of the famous wind called BURA (Bora), that can blow up to 200 kmh in winter. This makes the most famous delicacies like cheese, lamb, olive oil and wine even more delicious.
Cheese (Paški sir)
Cheese from Pag is special aromatic taste, perfect with wine and olive oil. Cheese is made of sheep milk. You can buy and taste cheese in almost every restaurant on Island or in some of the many little or bigger cheese dairies.
Local wines
Mach perfectly with cheese and lamb
Lamb
Juicy lamb
Also well-known is the lamb from Pag called locally “paška janjetina”, delicious and soft, special taste and aroma because of the up described weather conditions.
Great restaurants
4 National parks not more than 1,5 h away
NP Paklenica – nearest national park, only 56 km car distance, heart of a mountain and part of UNESCO world heritage. Pearl of Velebit. If you like active vacation NP Paklenica is the right place for you. You can enjoy walking, hiking and climbing. And make some fantastic and memorable photos. Paklenica also has rich flora and fauna, more than 1000 plants and some of them endemic. For more adrenalin you can climb high rock or visit one of many caves in national park.
NP Kornati – the national park on the sea, 107 km distance from Pag is Croatian biggest archipelago of 89 islands with 238 km of coast. You can meet the island from the boat but also walk and dive nearby. The crystal clean sea is memory for life. And not less important, Kornati have many little authentic restaurants with tasty foods and wines.
NP Plitvice – 130 km car distance – when you are in Croatia, be sure to visit Croatian most visited and the biggest national park Plitvice only 130 km distance. Allow yourself to be breathless with that pure natural beauty. It is once in a lifetime experience. Plitvice is a complex of 16 lakes, three rivers – White, Black and river Korana and many waterfalls. The biggest one is Great fall, 78 meters long, equally beautiful during all seasons, even frozen in winter. Wooden paths enable visitors to meet all parts of Plitvice. Maybe if you are so lucky you can run into a brown bear, a symbol of a national park. Or rather maybe not 😊
NP Krka – Near Šibenik, 120 km distance is NP on river Krka. Krka river is the karst phenomenon, join of rock and water. You can get to know the national park by bike, walking or by boat. Every of those perspectives are different and beautiful. Enjoy the sounds and colors of many waterfalls. The most beautiful is Skradinski buk. In the middle of delta river Krka is a little island called Visovac with a monastery and church since 1445. Finally, where the river joins the sea there is adorable little Town called Skradin.
What you must visit on Island Pag to bring back the best memories with you?
Beautiful beaches on island Pag
Other sight-worth places
Beside the beaches and rich gastronomic offer of Island Pag, you have the bring with yourself unforgettable memories of special places and sightseeing.
Pag has many cultural sights. Like Pag cathedral and famous Pag lace. You can even buy jewelry made from lace.
To see a perfect view, climb on the highest hill of Pag Sv. Vid. On one side there is a beautiful camping village Šimuni and on the other old city of Pag and Pag channel with many little villages.
If you are more interested in food, you definitely should visit one of the many dairies to see, with more than 100 years tradition of cheese preparation.
Be sure you try and take one cheese, that aromatic taste reminding you on your holiday. Perfect match with cheese is olive oil from oldest olive trees on Island – LUN.
Maybe this is the reason why UFO came to Pag 12.000 years ago, to taste a chees and olive oil. We will never find out, but once you come, you always come back to Pag, so maybe once we will have a chance to ask them
More places to visit you can find on links below:
Camping village Šimuni recommendations
TOP 10 places to visit on Island Pag (Ponudadana.com)
Pag amenities (Mediteranpag.com)
Town Zadar
Town Zadar is a unique join of history and modern attraction.
In the center of Zadar are findings from Roman empire, more than ten churches, most famous one church of Saint Donat, and Saint Anastasia cathedral. You can enjoy sun and coffee on several beautiful lifeful squares and streets.
Nicely incorporated modern attractions will touch all your senses. The sea organ is a combination of sea, music and architecture. You can listen to wave music for hours.
Then the greeting to the sun, solar system made of solar cells. Specially interested at night.
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