The residents of Lika are hoping for full accommodation capacities for Easter and the upcoming tourist season. This year, there are new attractions for tourists to discover in Lika; a real hobbit house has sprung up in untouched nature, and for a complete atmosphere, there is a forest organ, the first in Croatia.
The play of branches and wind creates a symphony on the forest organ; that’s how the Lika forest sounds. “It produces the sound of air flowing through pipes and holes in pipes. They have an aid during weak winds so that people are not disappointed when the organ is not heard when there is no wind”, said Tomislav Špehar, from Grabovača Cave Park.
Dnevnik.hr reports, the small houses with green doors lead us to a real-life fairy tale. The Hobbit houses also have furniture, a small bed, books about the Hobbits in more than ten world languages , and a herbarium of real Lika plants that grow in the garden in front of the houses. Last year, volunteers from all over the world worked on the creation of this project.
“Our goal is to have editions of the book The Hobbit in foreign languages. Volunteers from Spain, France, Pakistan, and Vietnam took part in the last project”, says Mario Paral, Grabovača Cave Park.
The children of Lika will also find a piece of paradise for themselves and have the opportunity to learn new languages. “When books in different languages come, then I will be able to learn a little more languages,” says Niko, 9 years old.
Foreign languages are already being heard. The season in the cave park Grabovača started earlier than usual. “We’ve been open for three weekends. In those six days, we were visited by about 300 visitors. Of which 99% are Croats and only one percent are foreigners from the Netherlands and the Czech Republic”, said Jelena Milkovic, director of the Grabovac Cave Park.
That is why they rightly expect more guests than last year’s five thousand because enjoying the smells and sounds of the forest with a little escape in the imagination – is the cure for all problems.
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