1 stops in walking order

National Park

Mljet is Dalmatia's greenest island and its western third is a national park of forested hills wrapped around two connected saltwater lakes. In the middle of the larger lake sits a 12th-century Benedictine monastery on its own tiny island — you take a shuttle boat out and back. Rent a bike or kayak, do a full lake loop in about three hours, and stay for the sunset over the pine forests. Legend says Odysseus was so charmed here he lingered for seven years.

~20 min at this stop