This year Ivana and I decided to go somewhere for International Workers’ Day.
Because we had only 3 days available for this short holiday weekend we had to “limit” ourselves to Croatia. Our first idea was to visit Dubrovnik, but at the end we decided to go to Fužine. Every time I was going to/from Rijeka I was impressed with the view of Fužine from the highway bridge so we finally decided to visit this small town.

We planned the trip pretty fast and booked an apartment near the center of Fužine and near all the restaurants we wanted to visit (at the end it is all about the food :) ).
Besides the cave “Vrelo” and the Bajer lake we didn’t plan to see anything else in those two and a half days that we were meaning to stay there.

So let me tell you something about:

1. Fužine

Some basic information about Fužine can be found here.
I thought this town would be bigger that it really is. And maybe it looks big when you look at the maps but Fužine is mostly compiled from streets with family houses so there is nothing special to see there.

The center of Fužine is a small square with all important things you need to visit and see located there except the lakes and the cave. Anyway this square was perfect for Ivana and me as we like to mingle around and we could do this perfectly without walking to much :). The other great thing there was a small river coming from the lake through the center of Fužine, and one bar and a restaurant have their terraces right next to it, which is great and we loved it a lot.

There are also quite a few walking paths, once you find them, if you are into that kind of stuff.

2. Cave “Vrelo” and lakes

I love seaside, lakes and rivers, so I immediately loved the lake view from our apartment and the view from the top of the hill in Fužine to the lake and the bridge going through it. Unfortunately, except the stunning view there isn’t anything else to see or experience there.

You can walk alongside lake cost but that looses meaning after couple hundred meters. If there were only some coffee shops or some other type of some entertainment available there :).

The second lake wasn’t evan easy to find but luckily google saved the day and we were able to enjoy it as well.

If you are coming to Fužine, or you are just passing by, you must visit cave “Vrelo”!

It was discovered in 1950 by accident. The cave is 4 million years old and 300 meters in length. Maybe because this was my first visit to any cave ever I really liked everything there was to see inside (small well and rivered coming from it, stone cave ornaments and the cold :) ). The only downsides were the length of the visit (about 20 minutes all together) and the constant water dropping from the celling on my gadgets ;).

3. Food

We always welcome the opportunity to try something completely new or rare to us and all restaurants in Fužine were serving at least couple of such dishes. At the end we didn’t have the courage and/or the heart to eat the Bear goulash in restaurant Bitoraj so we decided to settle with fried frogs and filled oyster mushrooms in restaurant “Arnika” as our special dishes. All other meals we had were quite normal :).

The prices were reasonable and acceptable for us (two students at this point :) ), and the service was also great.

I’d just like to compliment the food presentation in Lovački Dom “Arnika”. If you, for example, order “Hunter’s goulash” for two it will be served to you in a small pot which hangs from a stand and under which there is a little fire keeping it all warm. Unfortunately I was not able to take a picture of this but it looked great and very hunter authentic, trust me on this.

As a closing note I would like to say that the weekend was perfect to see everything we wanted to see and try everything we wanted to try. If we stayed longer we would not have anything else to do there. So I would recommend Fužine as a great weekend resort no matter the season.

And if you are interested you can find some photos that Ivana and I took over the weekend on my MobileMe photo gallery.

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