Lake Mir
Warm salt water that makes floating easy.
Carsten Steger — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tatyana Peshkova — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hidratična — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ivan Zilic — CC BY-SA 4.0
On a combined trip if you have only one day — most Kornati excursions from Zadar stop at Telašćica and Lake Mir, and that is the most efficient use of the day. But if you want to walk the cliffs unhurried and spend hours at Lake Mir, take the ferry to Dugi Otok and stay a night; the island rewards it and costs less than Zadar.
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Telašćica is a long narrow bay cutting some eight kilometres into the southern end of the island of Dugi Otok, and one of the safest natural harbours in the Adriatic — sheltered from almost every wind, and used as such since antiquity. The contrast that makes the place remarkable is that only a narrow strip of land separates this calm bay from the open sea, and on the other side the picture reverses entirely: vertical cliffs called the stene, rising to a hundred and sixty metres above the water and dropping eighty below it. You walk ten minutes from water as still as a pond to the edge of a cliff open to the sea. Inland lies Lake Mir, a saltwater lake cut off from the sea but connected to it through fissures in the rock, its water warmer and saltier so that floating is easy, and its mud used locally on the skin. Access is by ferry to Sali and then overland, or on a boat trip combining Telašćica with Kornati in one day.
Warm salt water that makes floating easy.
Ten minutes from still water to an open edge.
The southern end of Dugi Otok, 23281 Sali