1.day - arrival in one small family hotel in early afternoon, accommodation. Rest of the afternoon free, dinner, overnight.
2.day - Landscape and hills photography - after the breakfast departure for Grožnjan with guide. Grožnjan is one artistic little town, photo session with one professional photographer. He will be with the group on all photo days. Lunch, departure for Motovun, with guide and photographer. Motovun was municipal center. The picturesque medieval town built on the conical hill with a long tradition of urban lines since the protohistoric ruins. Inhabited in antiquity by the end of the second on third century. Return to the hotel, dinner, overnight.
3.day - half board in hotel, breakfast/dinner. Free day.
4.day - History and culture photography - after the breakfast in hotel departure for Poreč, with guide and photographer, this is a place where you can learn from the historical monuments, read from the facades and stone paved streets from the Roman era. Eufrazijeva Basilica (Eufrazijana) in Porec, the best preserved monument of Byzantine art in the Mediterranean. It was built in the 6th century, at the time of Bishop Euphrasius and Emperor Justinian I and is located in the episcopal complex. In 1997. UNESCO declared it a World Cultural Heritage. Lunch, departure for Dvigrad (Two castles), ruin town displaced due to plague. Return in hotel, dinner, overnight.
5.day - National park - breakfast. Departure for Brioni, National park. The Maker intended to shape a part of the Earth to the image of Heaven. That is how Istria came into being, like a garden covered with magnificent trees and vast meadows, washed by the deep blue sea, appealing people to a happier life. But the jealous devil destroyed his work by tearing the bag in which the angel was carrying the unused stones. Thousands of rocks scattered around the Istrian land making it a land of contrasts, gentle and rough, fertile and barren, sunny and cloudy. The desolated angels gathered the pieces of Heaven remaining among the scattered rocks and protected them by the sea waves and created Brijuni. Sightseeing with official guide and our guide. Lunch, return to the hotel, dinner, overnight.
6.day - Reservate and Amphitheater - breakfast, departure for Palud, with guide and photograph. Less than 10 km from Rovinj, near Bale. Marsh was formed ice melting and flooding the valley. Mostly filled with freshwater, a series of freshwater springs and small streams of fresh water nearby, from the surrounding forests and pastures. In the rainy period can be great and 20 hectares, while in the dry season is significantly smaller, even up to 2 acres, with a height of about knee-deep water. Photo session, lunch. Departure for Pula, in the Roman Imperial period (1st - 3rd centuries) the greatest classical monuments in Croatia were built in Pula. The most magnificent and surely central classical monument is the Amphitheater popularly called the Arena. This Amphitheater, used for fights and battles of men and animals, was built in the 1st century AD, during the rule of Emperor Vespasian. The ground plan is elliptical, its size being about 130 m x 105 m, and 32 m high, which ranks it as the sixth largest Roman amphitheater existing today. The Arena could once hold up to 23,000 spectators, whereas today it can seat some 5,000 people. Dinner in hotel, overnight.
7.day - half board in hotel, breakfast/dinner. Free day.
8.day - Glagolitic alley - breakfast in hotel. Departure for Roč, Hum and Kotle, with guide and photographer. A significant and exceptional monument complex commemorating Glagolitic heritage was erected in 1977 along the road from Roč to Hum. The Glagolitic Lane is a project of the Chakavian Parliament (Čakavski sabor). The author of the entire concept is Zvane Črnja, and it was realized through the work of prof. dr. Josip Bratulić and sculptor Želimir Janeš. The beginning of the Lane is at the foot of Roč hill with the first monument – Pillar of the Chakavian Parliament. This monument in the form of the Glagolitic letter S symbolizes the first Slavic script and the beginnings of Slavic literacy. The remaining ten memorial sites are: Table of Cyril and Methodius, Chair of Kliment of Ohrid, Belvedere of Gregory of Nin, Glagolitic Lapidarium, Gorge of the Croatian Lucidar, Gradient of the Survey of Istrian Land Boundaries, Wall of Croatian Protestants and Heretics, Resting-area of Juri the Deacon, Monument of Resistance and Freedom and Hum Gates. Kotle are remains of waterfalls. Lunch in the meantime. Return to hotel, dinner, overnight.
9.day - Riding photo day - breakfast, departure for Zelena laguna, riding with breaks for Photo sessions, with photographer and guide. Lunch, rest of the afternoon free, dinner in hotel, overnight.
10.day - half board in hotel breakfast/dinner. Free day.
11.day - Fisch, sea and boats photography - breakfast. Boarding the ship in Poreč at 9 AM, with guide and photographer. Several hours in company of real fishermann on a real fishing-boat and seeing for yourself what catching a fish is. Lunch on board with catched fish. Rest of the afternoon free for impressions of the morning fishing. Dinner in hotel, overnight.
12.day - Nature park Učka - breakfast, departure for Učka, with guide and photographer. Park Učka primarily characterized by a remarkable diversity of features in a relatively small area. So Učka probably the only place in the world where you can photograph the endemic Bellflower (Campanula tomassiniana) and one of the last European sites where the patient about bird lovers will be rewarded with an impressive silhouettes of the griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) or surrogates eagle (Aquila chrysaetos). These types are the two prominent representatives of ornithology fauna Učka numbering about 100 have been recorded breeding as well as a number of other bird species that occasionally visit Učku. Turistic sightseeing with local guide. Lunch in one restaurant on Učka. Return in hotel, dinner, overnight.
13.day - breakfast. Free morning. Lunch, preparation of the materials/photos for the photo competition. Selection of the best photo. Awards, diplomas. Dinner, overnight.
14.day - breakfast. At 9 AM departure.
The price included: small family hotel ***, 13 half boards, 9 restaurants lunches, professional photographer 9 days, guide 10 days, ticket Brijuni with guide, riding ticket, Učka guide, boat ticket, bus 14 days
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