Zagreb Cultural District

The picture above is one of the best shots I got of the park that rings the cultural district of the south downtown. This shot is on the Eastern side. If you can tell from the scale of the cars on the left side of the shot, you can get a bit of a sense that this strip of flowers is between fifteen and twenty feet wide. On the right, you can see a picture of Zagreb's largest museum, which we did not get a chance to go into since we only spent two full days in the city before going to Zadar.

The park you see runs around circles the south downtown in a horseshoe shape like so: _. Along the southern edge there is Croatia's largest National Park/wildlife sanctuary, full of walking paths and home to all sorts of animals. Unfortunately, I did not get pictures of said animals, and if I had they would have looked much like most of the animals indigenous to North America. Although I did take a few pictures of local non-human life, they tend to resemble the Croatian slug pictured on Fish Head Alchemy because most of the unique animals/insects I saw were of the stinging and biting variety and it did not seem to be the wisest of choices to get close enough to take a good picture.

The picture to the bottom left is of what I believe to be one of the government building. I particularly like the lamp post you see on the right side of the picture, and it is the type of lamp post you see althroughout the Zagreb downtown. Another thing you might notice from the picture on the left is how blue most of the sky is over Croatia, something you'll see again and again when we get to pictures that are in either smaller cities or on the countryside.

Also, for the envirnomentalist in you, you might want to check out the differences of the skies between the government building picture and the picture of the park. The picture of the government building is taken facing North towards the hilly shopping and cafe area of the downtown where our hotel was while the flower picture was taken facing south towards the industrial district. Gotta love the white sky of man, boy howdy.