Hvar | Around the World with Corey Sandler

By Corey Sandler, Destination Consultant Silversea Cruises

We have returned to Hvar, Croatia in summer. I know, life is tough.

Hvar has a bit of history, dating all the way back to the Greeks. Today, it is awakening from a long slumber as a handsome modem seaside resort in an ancient setting.

For more about this colorful place, see my blog entry from June 7.

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By Corey Sandler, Destination Consultant Silversea Cruises

The island of Hvar is one of Croatia’s trendiest destinations: Beaches, watersports, cafés, and shops.

The tourist bureau would have you think of it as the Saint-Tropez of Dalmatia.

It’s a very attractive place; the town of Hvar is mostly white and tan structures with orange or red roofs.

But going to Hvar means going to a place where, with the arrival of summer come flocks of tourists, along with eruptions of color in the interior of the island: vineyards, fields of lavender, and riots of wild flowers.

A HVAR ALBUM

On this visit I went with a group of guests on an off-road adventure into some of the mountains and valleys of Hvar.

We ventured through fields of purple lavender and yellow broom to isolated towns; one village is down to just seven residents, some of whom were refugees from an even more remote settlement now abandoned.

Here is some of what I saw.