ZADAR, CROATIA: Old Town, Beach & Delicious Food | Croatia Vlog

Zadar, Croatia vlog: On day 2 of our Croatia travel vlog series we show you our first full day exploring the Old Town of Zadar, Croatia, covering attractions you can visit such as the sea organ (morske orgulje), greeting to the sun, the beautiful promenade (riva), Kosovare beach (as short walk from old town) and Zadar’s gorgeous town squares. Zadar sunsets are not to be missed, and the one we witnessed on our first day ensured we saw the Zadar sunset every night of our trip! In this vlog we also show you delicious Croatian food for both lunch and dinner - were very impressed by the quality of food in Zadar.

After having spent a few days in the Zadar region of Croatia we highly recommend you consider Zadar for your trip, whether that be a city break, a base to explore the Istrian or North Dalmatian regions of Croatia, or as part of a larger Croatia itinerary. The old town of Zadar is incredibly picturesque, with limestone floors and pastel buildings. Currently this city appears to have hit the sweet spot of tourism: busy enough that there is plenty to do, but not as crowded as the currently more popular hotspots of Dubrovnik and Split. It is also worth noting that Zadar is quickly and easily accessible from Zadar international airport.

Thank you for watching our Zadar, Croatia vlog. We have a few more videos in this Croatia travel vlog series which will cover more of Zadar old town, as well as going on day trips such as Krka National Park (which will feature next in our Croatia travel series).

Croatia Episode 2 Transcript:

Morning! We've just had coffee on our really lovely balcony, and now we're going to go and explore old town [...]

In this episode of our Croatia travel series we spend the first full day exploring the charming, low key old town of Zadar, cooling off in the crystal clear waters of the city beach, and of course trying delicious Croatian food. After arriving in Zadar late the night before we'd already had a glimpse of just how beautiful city was, and we were so excited to spend the day exploring.

Look at the colour of the water! Wow, you can see right to the bottom, it's so clear. I'm gonna swim in you later!

So we're back at the Sea Organ, I'm not sure if you can hear it behind me, warbling away. The sound is caused by the water pushing air through some tubes that are running underneath us
and it's making that...I don't even know how you describe that sound but that's the sea organ! We're gonna have breakfast picnic at the sea organ; we've got these little chocolate pastries.

This here is Greeting to the Sun, which is where we were last night, and can you see now it's just solar panels in a big circle on the floor. You've got Greeting to the Sun here, and the Sea Organ there.

We're gonna go for a walk along the promenade now. The weather is absolutely beautiful and even though it's all the way back there I can still hear the sea organ.

You can see along the coast here there's lots of steps going into the water because you can just go swimming pretty much anywhere off here. They have got a beach somewhere, but you could just go here if you wanted to.

We've reached the end of the promenade and we've come to this small marina full of lots of little boats and lots of little fish!

Time for lunch. When researching recommended places to eat Restaurant Bruschetta cropped up time and time again, so we were eagerly looking forward to trying it for our first lunch in Zadar.

We've got bruschetta, octopus carpaccio, fresh tuna, octopus salad, seafood spread and seabass. [...]

The City Beach is a short walk from Old Town and has amenities such as showers, changing rooms, food and drink. The beach has a blue flag award meaning that safety, cleanliness and water quality are a very high standard. If you have your heart set on a white sand beach then this Pebble Beach might not be what you're looking for. However, what it lacks in sun it makes up for with it's stunning crystal-clear water.
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Since we last picked up the camera we went back to the room, got showered, got changed and now we're going to get back out to explore some more of old town, because there's still quite a lot left that we haven't seen. [...]

This is Five Wells Square. The Venetians help defend the city by building these well heads when they were under siege from the Turks. You can go straight from Five Wells Square here down the steps to another square [...]

From five well square you can access the beautiful Queen Elena Park which was the first public park in Croatia. You've got a nice view of Lands Gate and the marina.

Now we're gonna go and find ourselves a spot for sunset!

Dinner time! We just got seated and we've got such a nice view from our restaurant table! [...]

We weren't able to see all the sights of old town on our first day, however as our trip was based in Zadar we'll be covering more of the city later throughout our trip series, as well as visiting other destinations as day trips from Zadar, Croatia.

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