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Karanac is an incredible education. Le : Goca cooks up
There are so many things to learn something delicious
about how people lived a hundred in her kitchen.
years ago, and a walk through the
village isn’t just a peaceful, relaxing
stroll. It’s also a learning experience
in a thousand little ways. There is
always someone interesting to meet,
a story to hear, an aspect of rural life
to discover and all this makes this
experience rewarding in so many
ways.
That’s why anyone should think
92 years young. She went on to explain that twice before describing Karanac, Jewels of the
she’d changed her passport 5 times in her life, Croatia as “simple.” Life here is about telling Adriatic
but never moved from her address. She’d lived the stories of a hundred-year-old farmstead
in the same house all her life, and was so happy that has stayed the same as the world trans-
to show off her garden filled with beautiful formed around it. Life here is about learning
flowers that she takes care of every day. that cooking meals is an art, a craft, and a
science all at once. Life here is about commu-
Her house is similar to many houses in nity, and culture, and camaraderie. And that’s
Karanac, and the architecture here is often barely scratching the surface.
something that surprises travelers. Many of Created by Grace
these houses were built more than hundred Chen, 3-time traveler
years ago, and have a very distinct, long shape from Scottsdale, AZ
that harkens back to how they
were used long ago. Often, Watch Slideshow
families lived in the front of
the house facing the street,
and the back of the house
was used as stables and a
barn for keeping the animals.
That’s no longer the case
these days, but the village
homes have retained that
unique, stretched-out shape
that gives them so much Le : During your
character. time in Karanac,
you’ll learn the art of
Learning about different cheesemaking.
ways of life is often one of
the main reasons people get
out and travel. If that’s true,
You can experience A Day in the Life of Karanac on our Crossroads of the Adriatic: Croatia,
Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Slovenia adventure.
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