In reply to snoop6060:
From a previous post...
I went to Croat in Sept 03.
We flew to and from Debrovnik, got a slow boat up to Zadar (via Hvar & Split) then bus to Paklenica. There are no trains. You can hop on/off ferry so had a few days on islands either side of a week climbing.
The bus from Zadar to Pak takes only about 90mins and was easy peasy. Drops off literally at foot at national park. I remember there was a bus there waiting when we got to Zadar bus station (v civilised place), so I assume they are reasonably regular.
There is a town called Starigrad Paklenica. Opposite the entrance to the national park (on the other side of a quiet road) is a campsite, hotel, mini-market, bar, couple of restaurants, tourist info office, petrol station, and a climbing shop selling ropes, and your usual hardware.
Buy the guidebook there (or in the nat park itself) no worries, and probo the most recent edition. We stayed at the campsite and ate at the same 2 little restaurants every night for a week. Only on the last night did we discover that the little hamlet where we were staying in wasn't actually Paklenica town but that the town was 1/2 a mile down the road! If we'd bothered to walk to the edge of the campsite you could see the town! So on the last night we wandered there and discovered bars, a nightclub, big choice of restaurants, shops the lot! We felt mighty dumb thinking our petrol station was the heart of the community! Doh.
Stay at the campsite opposite entrance to nat park, hitch the 2 or 3miles up the hill to where the climbing is (v easy and saves a slog), buy ham and cheese and loaf of bread at the little shop for lunch and eat seafood pasta/£1 a pint beer every night. Brill!
Take one set of nuts, few slings but wouldn't bother with cams, with you as the multipitch routes are a bit runout on the easy sections. The single pitch routes in the gorge are all well bolted.
