Why visit
Why visit Đurđevac Sands ('Croatian Sahara')
A genuinely surprising landscape at the edge of the Drava plain — 20 hectares of open sand dunes, remnants of an ancient river bed, nicknamed the Croatian Sahara. Pine plantings stabilise most of the surrounding area, but a protected core remains open sand with rare psammophile plants.
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Estimated visit
1 hour
Best season
Late spring or autumn
Where
Đurđevac, Croatia
Category
Nature Park
History
A genuinely surprising landscape at the edge of the Drava plain — 20 hectares of open sand dunes, remnants of an ancient river bed, nicknamed the Croatian Sahara. Pine plantings stabilise most of the surrounding area, but a protected core remains open sand with rare psammophile plants. Combine with a visit to the storybook Old Fort of Đurđevac.
“The sands were once so mobile that in the 19th century they buried entire farms — massive tree plantings in the 1900s brought them under control.”
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