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If your Mediterranean dreams feature pleasant days by sapphire waters in the shadow of ancient walled towns, Croatia is the place to turn them into reality. While numerous countries have attractive nature, Croatia has very varied scenery with mountains, lakes, rivers, the Adriatic Sea, forests and many islands! Croatia's amazing island-speckled coastline is definitely its main appeal. The initial thing that strikes you is the astonishing clearness of the water. When it's set against a glittery white pebbly beach, the water sparkles with a jewel-like intensity in shades of emerald and sapphire. Unsteadily perched between the Balkans and central Europe, this land has been passed between contending kingdoms, empires and republics for millennia.
Surprising Croatia offers divers a fantastic amount of scuba dives to take part in, with its numerous islands strewn out into the Adriatic. Overall, you’ll get approximately 1000 of these islands in Croatia, all decked with reefs, underwater caverns, pillars and canyons. There are many wrecks to see, as well. Around the island of Vis, the biggest of the islands, you can dive among several WWI and WWII shipwrecks, all fallen in battle. Kvarner is one of the most stunning gulfs on the Adriatic. Kvarner's underwater world is well-known for wonderful wall dives and rocky reefs covered with attractive gorgonians.
Croatia's most wreck-dense diving coast, shaped by WWI and WWII minefields off Pula and Rovinj, headlined by the protected wreck of the passenger steamer Baron Gautsch.
A densely packed archipelago of 89 protected islands and islets in northern Dalmatia, managed as a national park with strictly regulated, guide-only scuba diving in nine designated zones.
A sheltered bay in the northern Adriatic between Istria and the Croatian Littoral, ringed by the islands Krk, Cres, Lošinj and Rab, with Cres in particular known for wreck, reef and cave diving.
Croatia's premier wreck-diving island, ringed by WWII aircraft and shipwrecks, plus the famous Blue Cave on neighbouring Biševo and the Green Cave on Ravnik islet.