Walking holidays, tours and vacations in Croatia, Istria

A Journey to the Adriatic Sea

Istria lies in the very north of Croatia. It is a verdant territory which has been fought over, won and lost throughout history, leaving a landscape marked by all who lived and prospered here down the ages, particularly apparent in the medieval hilltop towns. A land of hills, meadows, vineyards and woods, of churches with medieval frescoes, and of the ancient Glagolitic script.

We start our walk in fashionable Motovun (of film festival fame), only a stone’s throw from the Slovenian border, and wander through unspoilt hill country, staying at tiny pensions in three further hilltop villages, before turning our faces south to a gentle assault of Mount Ucka, the bastion defending the interior from the Adriatic. Over the far side of the mountain, we walk down to the sea to spend two nights at pretty Moscenicka Draga, where the fish is fresh, the beaches uncrowded and the water sparkling clean and warm.