If you like island hopping, Croatia is the ideal destination for you.
The country has 1,200 islands to its name, boasting charming villages, rugged coastlines and azure seas.
Travelling around them is now even easier thanks to the Pelješac bridge. Unveiled in July this year, the €420 million bridge links Split and Dubrovnik, finally bypassing the need to travel over the border into Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Previously, if you wanted to drive to Dubrovnik, you had to travel through the Neum Corridor, a small stretch of territory that cuts Croatia in half.
This meant border checks on the way in and out, and with Croatia joining the Schengen Zone in 2023, these are only likely to get stricter.
Luckily, the new bridge lets you island-hop without border hopping.
You can join the bridge in the little village of Komarna and it’ll drop you off in Brijesta on the Pelješac peninsula. The new development has certainly gone down well with locals and tourists -at the time of writing, it has a 4.9 star review on Google
The bridge has many benefits for tourists visiting the nation, explains Darija Reic, Director the Croatian National Tourist Board Office in Great Britain explains.
“It shortens the travel time between two of the main tourist hubs in Croatia, Dubrovnik and Split.
“So now it takes you about two and a half hours to get from Dubrovnik to Split, so that makes travel easier, which we hope will entice more travellers to explore bigger parts of the Croatian coast.”
Source : EuroNews
