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Overview
About Rapajinka Café Bar
Why stop
- Hot and cold drinks, sandwiches, piroška and strudel.
Heads up
- Prices can feel high for a quick café stop.
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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 Rapajinka Café Bar, 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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Broad Lakes, Narrow Canyon0:00 / 0:32
“There's a reason the Upper Lakes spread out while the Lower Lakes sit between steep walls. The Upper Lakes rest on dolomite, rock that lets relatively little water through.”
Plays on the road 0.2 km from Rapajinka Café Bar in the Parkwolf Plitvice Lakes Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Entrance 1 and the Lower Lakes
- The Opera Singer and the Cascades
- Hotel Jezero and Kozjak Café
- Hladovina and the Medveđak Ridge
- 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!!!!”
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More about Rapajinka Café Bar
A break beside ST1Rapajinka Café Bar is a café beside the ST1 panorama train station, just above the Lower Lakes…
Rapajinka Café Bar is a café beside the ST1 panorama train station, just above the Lower Lakes canyon. It makes most sense as a short stop while waiting for the ride or after walking the lakes; it is part of the sightseeing route rather than a roadside destination.
What to orderThe menu lists coffee, hot and cold drinks, sandwiches, piroška and strudel.
The menu lists coffee, hot and cold drinks, sandwiches, piroška and strudel. It suits a drink or a quick bite; prices can feel steep for a brief café stop, so it may not be the place to plan a full meal. Bring a payment card because payment is card only.
Above the Lower LakesThe café is above the narrow canyon that holds Milanovac, Gavanovac, Kaluđerovac and Novakovića…
The café is above the narrow canyon that holds Milanovac, Gavanovac, Kaluđerovac and Novakovića Brod before it ends at Sastavci Waterfalls. It is a practical place to pause between that walk and the panorama train, rather than a separate viewpoint.
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.
