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Visit Green Cave Vis, Croatia on a Private Blue Cave Tour from Omis

From July 1st, 2017 the entrance fee to visit inside the Green Cave is € 10. The visit to the Green Cave is no longer a part of our Blue Cave tour from Omis but only as an optional stop of the private tour. We are sorry for this inconvenience. After we have enjoyed in the beautiful Stiniva cove and enjoyed on it's pebble beach,  on our Blue cave tour from Omis, we visit another attraction of Vis island, Green cave. On the south side of the island Vis, in front of the Rukavac bay is situated the uninhabited island of Ravnik, and on its southwestern side there is a Green Cave. It is a wonderful work of untouched nature in the Adriatic Sea. It...

Stiniva Beach inside protective Stiniva Cove

The island of Vis by all means is very different from the other tourist destinations. Vis has managed to keep its simplicity and calmness even in the middle of season. Its attractiveness is not based on commercial contents such as luxurious hotels, noisy life, entertainment ... Quite the opposite- Vis attracts visitors with its intact nature's beauty, hidden beaches, coves and islets, preserved original Mediterranean architecture and its warm and convivial inhabitants. Vis Island as well as its settlements has very interesting history. The first settlement on the island under the name of Issa was founded by Greek colonists from Sicily from Syracuse, in 4th century before Christ. After the second World War, the island of Vis became one of the main naval base Yugoslavian...

Visit Blue Cave on a Day Tour from Omis

When you speak about 'must see' places in Dalmatia, its most popular islands are Hvar, Brac, Vis and one small island with spectacular and one of the most unique natural phenomenon in the world- Bisevo. Blue Cave is one of 26 caves and one of the best caves in Croatia situated on this tiny island Bisevo. Formed by erosion from the Adriatic Sea, its amazing colorful reflection is created by light refraction of sunlight entering through a crack in the stone into the water and bouncing off the white limestone bottom. It has been 133 years since in Vienna's Neue Freie press in 1884, Viennese painter Eugen Baron Ransonnet discovered the world that there is a 'marvelous cave of undiscovered beauty'. He described and painted...
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