Day 18: Knin-Split (110 km, 1168 m ↑)

After two days in the small town of Knin, it was nice to leave towards a bigger city again. Two days ago, on Tuesday, we left Knin and cycled back to the coast towards Split. This time, we had planned our route to follow the Trans Dinarica Cycle Route for parts of the stretch to Split, which was nice because we could cycle on small roads with very little traffic. The other side of the coin, of course, was that for several kilometres, there was no road at all. After following a gravel or dirt road for some kilometres, we reached a crossroad and could either go left or right, and then the two ways would meet again after some kilometres. We decided to take each our way – I went left and took the shorter way, which was unpaved, and Udo took the longer asphalt road. The result was that we arrived almost at the same time at the meeting point.

Later that day, we had to stop again due to the professional cycle race Cro Race. They had closed the road, and we had to wait 45 minutes until the race had passed.

Split is very nice, with a beautiful old town, but also very touristy and rather expensive. We have spent two days here now. Tomorrow, we will have our last night in Croatia before we cross the border to Bosnia.