Dubrovnik is a beautiful walled city on the Adriatic sea. It's the Mediterranean Sea's top tourist destination for a good reason. Walking through the narrow streets of the city is like a walk through a fairy tale. Dubrovnik is where scenes of Kings Landing were filmed in the Game of Thrones TV show.
My dad and I arrived to Dubrovnik by car. We had taken the 3-hour drive from Split to meet with our adventure tour group. After returning our rental car, we set out on foot to find some food and kill time while we waited to be picked up by our tour guide.
Outside of the city walls, Dubrovnik looks like much of the charming Mediterranean coast, but with more fortifications.
Inside Dubrovnik's walls you will find a tightly packed, medieval fortified city with ornately decorated buildings.
The little streets were a multi-tiered warren of little shops and apartments. Unfortunately for us, my dad and I had our backpacks with us. So wandering the streets was a chore.
We found a place to have lunch and enjoyed some relaxing time in the shade and off our feet. Someone told us that when the cruse ships docked, 10,000 tourists would flood the city at a time. Luckily we arrived at a time when the city wasn't completely full.
After lunch we went to my favorite part of the city. As a lover of boats and water, the port of the city was the place that sent my imagination wandering and wondering.
This swimming area had me wondering if people had been swimming here for centuries.
The benches next to the wall were an ideal place to escape from the sun and watch the people and boats.
I found a bench and watched our bags while my dad went off to explore the city for a short while.
After a few hours, it was time to meet up with our tour guide. He picked us up and took us to Zaton where we would spend 2 nights.
After our first adventure of sea kayaking, the tour guide took us to an place with a great view of the city. We snapped some photos before he dropped us off in Dubrovnik for dinner.
My dad and I had dinner with some of the people from our tour group. It seemed like the city was more crowded at night. After dinner we wandered around a little bit, then got picked up and returned to Zaton to sleep.
The next day we were moving on to a different location and a different activity.
Dubrovnik itself is an amazing place to see, but I don't think I would want to spend more than a day there. It's pretty, but not very big. Once you've explored it and taken your photos, there's not a whole lot to do.
It's also mostly geared towards tourism so the shops are all tourist shops and the restaurants were all tourist restaurants. The city felt like it was putting on a show and wasn't a real living city. Plus it gets crowded quickly. One of the benefits of joining a tour group was having accommodations in a nice little village like Zaton which was more my style.
