Grow was made by the game of nature at the place where the Slunjčica River flows into the river of Korana. The nature had played with turquoise waters of the river Slunjčica and divided them into a myriad of sputtering waterfalls of which the most beautiful ones are Buk, Hrvoje and Vilina kosa. By its founding Rastoke is actually the first introduction to the Plitvice lakes. Unlike these lakes Rastoke is special by intertwined human settlement with spoon-like water- mills (mlinica žličara) in this exuberance of green vegetation on inlets and cliffs made three hundred years ago.
“We are going to the waterfalls. I cannot describe the suavity of these scenes, -flaring in the moonlight. Come over, traveller, and see! ” – Adolf Veber Tkalčević, a philologist and a travel book writer, 1860.
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