{"id":533,"date":"2019-05-24T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anubhavvacations.in\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2019-06-01T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T12:02:11","slug":"istria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anubhavvacations.in\/blog\/istria\/","title":{"rendered":"Istria"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is Croatia. The Croatia of Dalmatia, where the sea sparkles under the sun, the Croatia of Plitvice lakes, where the aquamarine, blue and turquoise all blend in and one cant separate from the other. Then there is the capital, Zagreb, where well-dressed men and women walk the high street, looking at their phones. I like all of Croatia, and what it gives with its food, the drinks, and the people. Most importantly I like the language of Croatia. I am however in love with Istria. A peninsula all by itself, a region which can be driven around in a day but might take a lot more to live in.<\/p>\n

\"Rovinj\"
Rovinj<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My love with \u201cIstria\u201d or \u201cIstra\u201d as it is locally called, started when Croatia started accepting Indian passports with multiple entry Schengen Visas. I was not very happy with Vienna and wanted my itinerary to have the third dimension of water after the lakes and the rivers. The Adriatic I thought was the reason I went to Istria in the first place, but later it turned out that the sea took backstage. Although the Adriatic was beautiful, Istria is not as much about the sea as Dalmatia is, and this is the reason I felt like exploring the land more and more every year. The more I did it, the more I liked it.<\/p>\n

\"Motovun\"
Motovun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most of the cars I see in the region are from Germany or Austria. They like buying property by the sea, I hear, so the prices are very expensive. Over the years I have developed a liking for the inland. Motovun might be the most popular small town inland. Its rise to fame has been the Motovun film festival and Truffles. The Truffles to food is the same as gold to jewelry. The olive oil is the other product the Istrians make very well. They know that they can’t compete in quantity with the other Mediterranean countries, so they take them in quality.<\/p>\n

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