Dugi otok

Island highs (1) – Dugi otok

As some of you already know, I’m currently walking, cycling and ferry-hopping my way around some of Croatia’s 1,185 or so islands, while working on a new hiking guidebook for Cicerone – so here’s the first of several posts on some highlights from the roof of the Croatian Adriatic… Hiking trail to Ostravica, Orljak and …

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Tovareca muzika

Local boys before a performance of Tovareca muzika (‘donkey music’) on the waterfront in Sali, Dugi otok, Croatia (18 June 2013). Tovareca is a traditional style of music, performed on cattle horns to a loud drumbeat, which is unique to the town of Sali. In 2012 Tovareca muzika was submitted for consideration to the UNESCO …

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