The River Gacka
- Stay
- Home made food
- Visiting the springs and mills on the opal coloured river, learning about the manufacturing of cloth and heavy homespun rugs
- Visiting a small country eco museum
- Hiking by the left side of the river (villages of Čovići and Prozor)
- Recreational fishing

The green destination
A natural pearl and rarity, natural continuation and link between Velebit and Plitvice Lakes is the Gacka Valley. On the hillsides of Velebit and Kapela, in the picturesque Gacka Valley, the world's most famous trout water springs surprisingly and quietly in Sinac.
In its upper course, it softly meanders through the Gacka Valley, in the middle it begins to disappear underground, and then bifurcates and flows down towards its sinking zone in the Lower Svica Valley.
The region was settled already in the later Iron Age, and several God Mithras sanctuaries are also to be found.
Gacka - the carstic beauty.
Idyll within the reach of the sea - unforgetable by the intensity of impression, is at the same time an anteroom of the most beautiful pieces of art created by the nature playing with water and rock four thousand years ago.
The River Gacka means life for the inhabitants of the Gacka Valley. Apart from using its clean water to drink, they catch fish, cut water plants for animal feed, and at the very spring of the river they have built a string of watermills to mill the grain into flour as well as stamping-mills in which cloth is being felted and heavy homespun rugs made. Mills on the Gacka are particularly attractive as a remnant of traditional architecture on water and old crafts. "Mills tirelessly milling the grains of corn, wheat...behind a high cliff, out of the stone well, down the hillsides rush into the valley - water; foamy, exuberantly lively, bubbling and restless; cascade - one after another, one after another - whirling, whirling...constant and endless...and the hand of a hale old man...divine, omnipresent, firm, landlordly."
The mills should be visited, the odour of freshly milled flour should be felt, clattering of the mill stone and roar of the clear water should be heard, the fresh air should be enjoyed while the meadows, fertile plowfields, and yellow endless dandelions spread all around you.

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