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Overview
About Galovački Buk
Why stop
- Several cascades spill into a vivid pool beneath a mossy cliff.
Map
Where it is
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Before you go
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Plitvice Lakes Tour Guide
Your drive to Galovački Buk, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Plitvice Lakes National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Entrance 2 and the Upper Lakes0:00 / 0:33
“Up ahead is the arrival area for Entrance Two, with the ticket gate farther inside the complex. For the Upper Lakes, Program E is a good choice: allow two to three hours for the boat crossing, lake walk and return ride.”
Plays as you drive up to Galovački Buk in the Parkwolf Plitvice Lakes Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Black River on Velika Poljana
- Hotel Jezero and Kozjak Café
- Hladovina and the Medveđak Ridge
- Mukinje and Vučnica Bistro
- 39 audio storiesacross Plitvice Lakes’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Beaver, Grey Heron, Great Cormorant, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 15 trails, 36 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Guide
More about Galovački Buk
Stop for the whole cascadeGalovački Buk is a waterfall in the Upper Lakes where water from Galovac and Milino drops…
Galovački Buk is a waterfall in the Upper Lakes where water from Galovac and Milino drops toward Gradinsko Lake. Several streams spread across a mossy cliff face before collecting in a clear turquoise pool. Give it a pause on the Upper Lakes walk: the full width of the fall and its pool are easy to appreciate from the boardwalk.
Fit it into the Upper Lakes routePlan it as part of the lakeside walk rather than a separate drive-up stop.
Plan it as part of the lakeside walk rather than a separate drive-up stop. The Entrance 2 Upper Lakes programme crosses Kozjak by boat, continues upstream on foot and returns by panoramic train. The boat and train require a valid park entrance ticket. Follow the signed lakeside route to the falls.
A landscape that keeps changingPlitvice’s tufa barriers form as calcium carbonate builds up around mosses, algae and other…
Plitvice’s tufa barriers form as calcium carbonate builds up around mosses, algae and other aquatic life. The barriers continue to grow and erode, reshaping the lakes and waterfalls. Galovački Buk is part of that living system, not a fixed rock ledge with water simply passing over it.
Take in the pool with the fallsKeep some of the turquoise water in the foreground so you can see where the cascades land.
Keep some of the turquoise water in the foreground so you can see where the cascades land. Views along the boardwalk show the broad curtain across the cliff; move closer to isolate one stream against the mossy rock. A broad side view shows the separate curtains together; a closer angle picks out individual streams and mossy rock.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Plitvice Lakes
20 sightingsBeaverMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
29 sightingsGrey HeronMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
14 sightingsGreat CormorantMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
84 sightingsMerganserMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
13 sightingsDipperMost seen around 8 AMSighting map
201 sightingsMallardMost seen around 5 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Plitvice Lakes. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
