Bikepackin’ & Island-hoppin’ in Croatia🇭🇷

Cycling in Croatia isn’t easy! The coastal roads are busy with cars and trucks, the smaller roads are often quite steep, rocky and unpredictable. Summertime is here and this means that the is sun getting hotter by the minute, luckily we’re able to stop often for a quick and refreshing dive in the sea. To avoid the traffic we take ferries to the Croatian islands, such as Hvar, Ugljan and Mali Lošinj and stumble upon some adventure there. See us struggle and tackle all of these problems in the video!

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00:00 Hello Croatia!
02:00 Our route looks like this
02:09 On the boat to Hvar
02:31 Found the perfect campspot!
03:55 Spiders!
04:47 Cycling on Hvar
07:00 Arriving in Split
07:33 Cycling mainland Croatia
09:51 Town of Šibenik
11:04 Campspot next to boats
14:29 Lunch in Pirovac
16:05 Let’s swim!
17:26 Boat to Pašman& Ugljan
17:35 Campspot
19:40 Boat to Zadar
20:16 Heavy rain in Zadar
20:33 7 hour ferry to Mali Lošinj
21:37 Cycling on Mali Lošinj & Cres
24:05 Tent story
26:03 A heavy ascend
27:25 Thanks for watching!

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to the phoh to the ferry to Mali that’s exactly how you pronounce it [Music] n [Music] [Music] [Music] a [Music] here we are taking one of the last fairies to the last Islands in Croatia uh are you ready for a 7 to 8 Hour Journey on a boat as as ready as I can it’s going to be a whole day on a boat but we read somewhere that it’s so scenic that the time flies we’re going to stop at like an island two or three or four different Islands we’ll see um cycling will be for tomorrow [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] today we cycled from Mali loin to the island of chis and it was a day full of ups and downs literally and figuratively spoken yes but we’re ending the day with a up not literally but figure relatively so it’s a down so it’s a down but it’s up you know okay yeah if you have a choice between fak and Adventures R always choose the that’s right a few uh evenings ago we started to have problems with the pole of our MSR tents our very expensive MSR tents uh and then um two days ago it finally broke um so yeah we tried to fix it but it was too much of a hassle and then we went to the diaton in zadar uh and we bought this beauty for 35 so this is going to be the ultimate test uh T Test um which one will survive longer Deaton 35 Ms um 600 plus EO so uh we send it the tent back home uh to see if we can get some new parts for it when we get back uh but for now it’s uh it’s just us oh yeah and I haven’t uh talked about the the beauty of this camping spot which we’re very happy about because the last um night in zadar we had a a Airbnb and it was super noisy so we were all stressed out um and now it’s just this there’s not even a dog barking um so yeah I think it’s going to be a a fairly good no of sleep [Music] [Applause] [Music] so most of the videos I film with the GoPro are of smooth downhills cuz it’s obviously much more easy to film when you’re sliding effortlessly down this is quite a big uh big ascent I started quite brave but then somewhere halfway I had to get off and walk as you can hear I’m a bit out of breath but I think one more kilometer of 10% uphill walking and then we’re uh there but there is not there cuz it’s still uphill after so who am I kidding [Music] so we’re on our last Ferry back to the mainland uh uh towards estria the last part of Croatia we’re going to cycle we’ve heard that it is going to be super beautiful um so I’m very curious for exciting and uh with this is the end of our video if you’re curious for Isa too you can see that in our next video and if you enjoyed this one you can give us a big thumbs up or leave a comment thanks for watching n