Slow travel in Croatia.

3 places on the quieter side of Croatia — chosen for low visitor pressure, reachable by land, and worth more nights than a stopover.

Flooded meadows and oak woods of Lonjsko Polje from above

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Panonska Hrvatska (Pannonian Croatia) · Croatia

Lonjsko Polje

Croatia's great Sava floodplain, where storks crown the timber Posavina houses and herds graze wet commons in one of Europe's last living wetlands.

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Međimurje · Croatia

Sveti Martin na Muri

The Croatian village on the Mura, at the seam of three countries: wine hills above and a mineral spring below, with the Mura-Drava regional park as backyard.

Aerial view of the town of Đurđevac, Croatia

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Koprivnica-Križevci · Croatia

Đurđevac

A Podravina market town where a medieval rooster legend, a lake of sand dunes, and the roots of Croatian naïve art meet. The crowds never arrive.