THIS IS CROATIA | Exploring The Istria Peninsula
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2020
- Exploring the beautiful Istria Peninsula of northwestern Croatia.
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THIS IS CROATIA | Exploring The Istria Peninsula
If you'd like to see more of the Istria Peninsula as well as how much things cost, I recorded this video in Rovinj when I was in Croatia three years ago: th-cam.com/video/fUGgQCcWkBU/w-d-xo.html
This coast line reminds me of Okrug Gornji. You should meet up with Canada born, but Crotia resident TH-camr @ThisisBunjo. He's out there in Trogir doing big things and he already gave you a mention in one of his earlier videos. Stay blessed Gabe.
Gabriel, when you reach Rovinj, take time to walk through the park that is south of the harbour, past the big German hotel marina complex, down to the quarry where people do rock climbing and you can see cormorants sititng on the rocky islands.
@@stevo728822 That's a great suggestion Stevo.
Great video by the way Gabe! 😀 Thanks for the Awesome Footage.
Thank you for this video, from Egypt with love
You filmed my wife's paintings in Motovun - can't believe I found this! Let's go for a drink if you get to the North Western region of Istria. Great vlog! Don't miss out on Grožnjan.
Very cool, what a trip. I headed east from there so am not in the area now.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Maybe next time. All the best on your travels!
I love how you pronounce our difficult names! ♥️🤍💙
The country is really beautiful. Sitting at home getting to know such a beautiful country and their culture. Thank you TH-cam from India🇮🇳🇮🇳🗺
Really enjoying these videos from Croatia. Thanks
The Vacation You Deserve Is Closer Than You Think: My Croatia, My Homeland!
Croatia 🇭🇷 May just be the most beautiful country in the entire world! What a gorgeous fishing 🎣 village. I would sit here for a month and write a book 📖 that would be for the ages. Most likely a romantic pirate 🏴☠️ that falls in love 🥰 with a princess 👸🏾. Thank you, -j
Josip thanks! Beautiful
"Croatia 🇭🇷 May just be the most beautiful country in the entire world!"
Does have its moments.
It's a small country, relatively speaking, but geographically, it varies a lot.
This is awesome. I hope you just stay in Croatia fcr awhile longer. We can not get enough of this incredible coumtry. Thanks for sharing your journey with us.
I guess that one town, when the bells never stopped, they were giving locals, their daily hearing test. What a beautiful part of Croatia. Must visit there someday. 😊😊😊
@Darko Ulmer thank you..🔔🔔
Croatia is Beautiful country with great people also
wonderful croatia every place there
Wow and what a beautiful day Gabriel! Researching Croatia! Beautiful country!
Man, where do you get energy to travel that much.. You are the best Ambassador of Croats this year. B🤔😊 If in Zagreb on Monday let me know.. Will buy you lunch 🙂
I can't wait to visit and vlog across Croatia, hopefully in 2021. Loving your Croatia vlog, Gabriel
You'll have a lot of variety to see and experience.
Istria is sort of like Tuscany.
Then my city of Rijeka, which is the European capital of culture for this year - 2020. It's an amazing city in every respect! Architecture, culture, people, open, welcoming multicultural tolerant spirit, happiness and carnivals like Venice, underground rock scene (it's like Croatian Seattle) and so much more.
On top of that, it is the main Croatian container port.
I'm disappointed Gabe actually went to Rijeka and showed literally nothing of it.
It is a bit larger city than others he had visited in Croatia, but it isn't big - population is approx. 200,000.
Smaller than Split.
The city is an eclectic fusion of central Europe and Mediterranean.
If you're into island hopping, make sure to visit north Adriatic islands too, not just Dalmatian ones.
Dalmatia is typical Mediterranean, beautiful, colorful and vibrant.
Southern Dalmatia is where Dubrovnik is at.
North of Rijeka which is where Gabe ends up in this video, iz Gorski Kotar. It's a mountainous, highland, wooded area - sort of like a hybrid between Austria, Scotland and Pacific Northwest. Wonderful nature and great hiking opportunities!
As you go deeper into the continental part of Croatia, you get to Karlovac and then the capital - Zagreb. It is typical central Europe, Austria-Hungary type of architecture and loads of things to see and do, with one of the best preserved medieval old towns in Europe and an awesome downtown.
Slavonia - starts about 100km east of Zagreb, is like Hungary...at that point you're in the so called Panonian basin, flat planes, wide fields, very cool woods at the heart of it and a super interesting nature reserve at the easternmost part called Kopački rit, along the banks of the Danube, just to the northeast of the Slavonian regional capital of Osijek.
Also, another region people often miss, but is amazing, is Zagorje - to the north of Zagreb. It's a picturesque hilly area, a wine country and full of medieval, renaissance and baroque castles. I would say that is a must see in Croatia. Slavonia also has those castles as do other parts of Croatia, but nowhere is there such a concentration of them in a relatively small area.
Varaždin is a charming baroque city in that region and another possible point of interest might be the museum of Neanderthals in Krapina, Zagorje. It's at the site of one of the largest, most important, most ample finds of Neanderthal remains in all of Europe and the world...at the level of the Neander Valley in Germany, El Sidron in Spain or La Ferrassie in France.
For example: out of altogether around 400 Neanderthal individuals found in the entire world, 75 come from this one site in Vindija Cave near Krapina, Croatia.
Hope I gave you some idea of what is it like and where to go.
Welcome to Croatia and enjoy your stay!!
@@robertmance1744 wow, thanks for the info
@@RJinspire You're welcome!
@@robertmance1744 so much inf. Nobody love ut !!!
Marvelous job on this video bro! I already loved Croatia, but now I yearn to be there even more! Such a beautiful and clean place!
Great video! Soothing and comfortable walk. Loved it
How wonderful to see the villages off the beaten track, the one on the top of the hill looked amazing. I have been mesmerised by all your travelling vlogs. Take care and stay safe and continue to amaze us with your trips abroad.
Nice Job, Very Interesting. Love the details. Enjoyed the Music Mix. And Maybe the Loudest Bell Ringing I've ever heard. lol. Thanks
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Thank you for showing us these sweet little villages, they are full of charm and kind ppl! Im falling more in more 8n ❤ with each city you visit. Old anything grabs my attention so bravo on this video.👏until next time, stay safe my friend. ✌
You are finally in my region.You have to come to Pula.
I’m enjoying this series Gabriel you always put a lot of hard work and history on your channel...greetings from Montréal Quebec Canada 🇨🇦
And look at their roads, NO POT HOLES!!!!!! Lol.
Boulevard Saint-Jean is worse than Kabul at night, I tell you.
Beautiful ancient Istria. Lots of beauty in one place. I didn't even know about such beautiful small towns that are in the mountains of Istria. I have no words..
Gab I’m just loving all the videos you are putting up. So many more than you ever have before! Are you enjoying the slower, town by town exploration? You are showing places no one goes. Awesome!
This is great video, thx. fr sharing and keep going , greetings from Canada ✌🍁💕👌
Ovo je sjajan video, thx. za podijelu istog i nastavite, pozdrav iz Kanade ✌🍁💕👌
Thx za podjelu*👍
@@vjc4964 tThx i tebi lafe i uzivaj ..Ok..👌🌿💕🍁🍷✌
Gabriel, you are the best..
Croatia looks amazing! Great video!
that was very nice, thank you Gabriel
Another top video. Istria is beautiful region, very much like Tuscany in Italy. Motovun is a beauty. Love Delnice in particual, my mother is from Delnice (father from Dubrovnik), so spent so many days and weeks there when I was younger, nice to see it again. Gorski Kotar is so beautiful, but beware of bears...
One of the most beautiful parts of Croatia! Very nice trip! 🇭🇷👍✌
#hrvatska #croatia
I love❤️Croatia Your travels are wonderful
I drove to Buzet from the Slovenian border because I had spent a day in Southern Slovenia. Up in the mountains on the border I stopped at a lovely cafe which I fell in love with. The drive along the river valley from Buzet to Motovun is absolutely gorgeous. Motovun was settled by the Celts, I didn't think the Celts got that far south, I associate them with Ireland and Wales. Whenever you see a stone sculpture of a winged lion it means that town was incorporated into the Venetian Empire during the 15th and 16th century.
If you are going to Pula, visit Brijuni National Park. It is splendid.
Show us some villages stuff, markets, lifes in villages, nd show us how they earning for food, jobs, problems, I love villages life
dont ask for that,all beaty will gone.
Great video! Thanks for taking us along on your trip!
Loving this. The towns are wonderfully preserved. Excellent work Gabe
Woww this Croatia travels, exploring , adventures, hikings are awesome . So much content...you re the best travel vlogger Gabriel...
Greetings from holidays in Algarve, before returning to Paris 👋👋
Thank you Gabriel! Croatia is beautiful! 😊❤ stay safe and take care!
I am very surprised. Croatia is beautiful and you've done a great job with your videos. Thank you.
This is only coast, you should also see continetal Croatia, cheers from Croat
Brother i feel like I am also travelling with you thanks for explore Croatia
Thanks for the great videos. Keep up the good work and enjoy amazing truffles in Croatia !
I soooo miss church bells.
Mario Andretti, former race car driver, was born in Motovun.
You are like a walking Rembrandt and the world is your oyster 🦪! SO BEAUTIFUL and creative, pointing ☝🏽 out lovely 😊 and interesting 🧐 things. A real man 👨🏻
"Ris" is lynx in croatian, so Risnjak is place where they (used) to live.
Davorin Ruševljan They still live but they are rare and protected.
@@rosieg3423 not native ones, imported from Canada
ja ja No, they are euroasian lynx, not canadian ones
@@rosieg3423 I think he's joking...
@@jaja2536 was talking to one of them the other day. Says he really misses Canada ;)
Visit Pula City or Pola in Italian with huge amifiteatre and islands of Brioni with lots of ancient Roman villa rustica remains don't miss it it's spectacular...
Italy ✋
Having been born in Rabac and lived in the old town of labin I feel that Istra is the best portion of Croatia. The old town of labin is defiantly worth a visit. Nice coal mine museum in the old town. Walk to the top of the town and you can see Rabac and cress. Best prosciutto is in the new part of labin on second floor of the market. There are nice towns along the eastern coast of Istra. Plomin should have the flowers that grow out of the rocks in bloom this time of year. They only grow in a small portion of Istra. Rovinj is still the best but crowded along with pula. The pula farmers market is incredible.
Thank you for your videos.. Love them.. Gives us hope that we will soon be able to travel once again & experience different cultures and cuisines.. You are an inspiration!
Wonderful Croatia....i wanna be there too!
Before WW2, Opatija was called the pearl of the Adriatic sea.
Wienas & Budapest pearl
Love this series..tnx
Ha Gabriel, you travel like me. I drive down the road going to a destination, but I have to stop at every small village, just to see what it's like. Good video, looks like some nice vintage hill towns.
Feeling nostalgic. I will miss it this year. Thank you for sharing this.
Croatia is just beautiful!
As all former Yugoslavia.
I am from Buzet very close border Slovenia Nice to see place where was born thank you for sharing video.
Thank you for sharing more video. I like to see how around Buzet slowly progressing..
love croatia from 🇦🇱
Yes Montenegro ,thnx.
Maybe you do this when you do google searches of places to go and stay, Gabe, but my wife has had great success with googling 'coolest whatever' and now I do it too. We've stayed at 'the coolest' hotels that way and such. Enjoying all your Croatian videos - not just the subject content but the way you're filming & presenting and being positive (even when you couldn't swim at the national park and in your attempts to avoid crowds) and just everything. You're in a great groove - hope it lasts until u can't film no mo.
Enjoyed the video and learnt many things. Thanks for creating !
what a fantastic place it is!!
I prefer Dalmatia over Istra but its still special to me. We spent many years in Poreč and Novigrad and Opatija is where my mother was born so yea its special to me :)
Ciao... Gabriel... Interesting place in Croatia.. Mille Grazie for a another amazing video... 👍👍👍🍀🍀🍀
This was fantastic
Thank you Gabriel 😊
these videos have been fascinating to watch to say the least, love seeing you wonder around discovering new places to experience & enjoy...
Not to mention how good you look in purple ...just saying 🙋🏼♀️
Looking goooood
I love Istria. On the west side it's remnants of Venice and Byzantium. On the east side it's the old AustroHungarian holiday coast. The interior its Central European. Something for everyone. I haven't been there for a few years now but am very happy to see they have advanced in portraying their local identity and products. Thanks, Gabriel
Your pronunciation of towns and villages is getting better 😁
Can't wait to see you're hike on Risnjak. Btw i would recommend you also to visit and try to hike on the mountain Medvednica that's that mountain north of city Zagreb. Lots of nice hiking routes and some nice places to eat when u come on top.
You can also find a place to stay there.
Appreciate your videos. Was there a year ago, did a road trip too. Brought back lovely memories. Now when we're free again to travel, will definitely be returning to explore more areas.
Im 30 minutes from Buzet, live in slovenia on border with italy.....just to say hay and love watching your videos from all arround the world......let the force be with u 😂😀
I’m surprised you missed Rovinj. Many regard this the most beautiful city in Croatia. Porec and Pula are also nearby either side of Rovinj
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Rovigno 🇮🇹
All the towns shown here make me want to go!
Enjoying all of Croatia. Beautiful country. Thanks for sharing your journey. I travel like you. Love to stop when something perks my interest. Watching from beautiful New England here in NH....
What alovely journey.. thanks gabe 🙏😊
Very beautiful
Great vid as always Gabe, I recomend you to visit National park Brijuni, there is boat from city of Fažana to Brijuni. Cheers and stay safe
Excellent video seeing some lesser known towns, this is what you do best.
Voted: Best Music of the Travel Bloggers 2020. thanks
I really, really REALLY---wish I could be there...walking through those lovely little villages. But this is the next best thing--thank you Gabriel!
In Motovun the restaurant called MONDO that you passed on the way up the hill is INCREDIBLE!!!
Gabriel this is a great video footage took in Kvarner, Gorski Kotar and Rijeka region.I am glad ,you covered that part of Croatia too, since it seams to be a bit underrated.Btw.Istria is most turistic Croatian region.If you have an opportunity, my advice is to visit Mošćenička Draga beaches,and pitoresque village Mošćenice above,Kastav and Lovran old town,North Adratic Island cities Vrbnik,Baška,Krk,Cres,Lubenice Lošinj, Rab,Mount of Učka with 360 degrees view (spreading almost 100 km around during clean weather condition),Istrian vilages Hum(official smalest town at the World),Grožnjan,City of Pula, Brioni national Park etc.I have to mention that I expected more video footages from Opatija and Rijeka.
FYI. Croatia has 8 national parks and 12 Parks of Nature.Considering it is a relative small country( 56.594, less then West Virginia), it sounds really amazing.
Great, thanks for the info.
Exploring that little off-the-path station and old factory building! That's some travel vlog GOLD!
Goodness!!! "For Whom The Bell Tolls??" Lovely town though 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔
my guess, it was noon
Nice to see you in my hometown of Opatija.
So many places i see i want go
Gabriel we want you in Poland!!! Krakow, Warsaw, Sopot!!! ♡♡♡♡
Lovely city is
Looks great Gabriel
I just want to say that I love the way you conduct your videos. You show exactly what to expect and for someone like me who tries to plan my trips very carefully and down to the ‘which bus I need to take on that hour that day’ this information is essential. For example I had so many questions about the plitvitci lakes, where to sleep, how to get to the lake, what hiking routes there are, how many days I need. Etc. but with your video you shows exactly the map you even walked from your Airbnb to show how close it was. It is great. Please keep this detailed style of showing your travels because avid travelers like me would love and learn from it.
Right on, glad to hear it. Safe travels.
You look handsome today :).
I'm a big fan of your travels and adventures. you're showing us the amazing world.
You should consider visiting Hum and Motovun in the Istrian "inland"
I would love to live in one of these Balkan countries maybe in Croatia. I am so sick of my own people out of spite, greed, selfishness and outright stupidity. Talking about Finnish during this Covic-19 pandemia plus everything else too. So begun to plan to move somewhere else after I get retired in couple of years.
Man Croatia is very different from the rest of the Balkan countries...Croatia and Albania are both on Balkan, but Croatia is probably more like Finland than Albania.
plan your trip and pack your bags. Croatia is better for EU retirees than Spain or Florida. Relaxed and normal people.
No, it is because Finland has the euro. That s why Finland is so fucked up.
Don’t bring up that scamdemic covid 19 you ruin the guys video and visit🤨
It is a very safe country to live in and sparsely populated, so you would be fine. Just stay informed in this few years before retirement because you never know what will politicians decide and if they decide to settle 100-200 000 "refugees" here, then it is better to stay at home.
Hi Gabriel, I saw that rental car a red Audi you're living large in Croatia. That fortress was a nice surprise and the town where the national parks are I'll bet many tourists don't wander too much in that direction.
Beautiful country town's.😊
I just flew home this afternoon from Pula, I visited Hum the smallest town in the world a quiet little place 3 kilometres walk from the train station
Beautiful. I want to be a successful travel like you. 😊🙏😊😊
This series competes with Nepal one 👍
National park Brijuni is also nice to see
BRIONI
@@davorlekenik9563, you are wrong, it's Brijuni.
@@davorlekenik9563 drug tita je tu bančio ,šenlučio ,drage goste primao ☎️
Love your song selection mate.
So, I'm from Zagreb, have already been to most of Europe, both south and east coast in the US (several times even), Mexico, the middle east... but I've NEVER been to Istria ever.
Thank you for this video, I'll try to plan a new years trip to Istria this winter.
Awesome content Gabriel!! Were currently in Split, almost ready to hit Hvar and surrounding islands.....Enjoy buddy! :)
Right on, enjoy the islands.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Thanks dude, we certainly will :) ....gonna be heading to Dubrovnik in a few days time too.....Croatia is an amazing place! Ill keep following your vids....have fun!
I hope you will go and explore Brijuni National park. It's beautiful!
Great video as always. 🤗
I recommend you to visit Motovun and Grožnjan in central Istria and Labin at east coast, Pula, Fažana and national park Island Brioni. Istria is beautiful.
I showed Motovun in this video. I almost went to Groznjan as well since it was nearby, but I ran out of time.
You are amazing man.You have passed Croatia along and across. I didn't do that ...I'm not far away...Just fascinated. Still following you.