The crowns
Vertical cliffs reaching eighty metres above the water.
Tadam — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Hbauer11 — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Hugo Karpinski from Manchester — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Argo Navis — CC BY-SA 4.0
Watch three things: whether the park ticket is included (it is sometimes added later), how many swimming stops the programme has, and the size of the boat. Small boats enter the narrow inlets and shallow moorings that larger vessels cannot reach, and that is the real difference in experience. Avoid trips that spend most of the day in transit and only half an hour in the archipelago.
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Kornati is an archipelago of some ninety islands, islets and reefs in the Adriatic south of Zadar, and the densest island group in the Mediterranean — a relatively small stretch of sea crowded with bare white islands, almost treeless and without permanent inhabitants. The view is entirely unfamiliar to anyone expecting green islands: the limestone is naked, and the colours are confined to white rock, blue water and patches of dry grass. The reason is historical rather than natural — these islands were grazed by sheep for centuries until the vegetation was gone, and what you see today is a landscape people made without intending to. Its best-known feature is the crowns: vertical cliffs on the seaward side of the outer islands, the highest about eighty metres above the water and dropping further beneath it. Access is only by sea: organised day trips run from Zadar and nearby ports and take a full day, with the park ticket usually included in the price.
Vertical cliffs reaching eighty metres above the water.
White rock against blue water, with almost no green.
The Kornati archipelago, Sibenik-Knin County