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Many of the buses that pass through Omiš from Split are bound for IMOTSKI, a provincial town set amid stony hills hard up against the Hercegovinian border. Unfortunately these buses don't follow the Cetina gorge route, but it's a highly scenic ride nevertheless, climbing over scrub-covered mountains…

The River Cetina rises just east of Knin and flows down to meet the sea at Omig, carving its way through the karst of the Zagora to produce some spectacular rock formations on the way. The most eye-catching portions are those just outside Omiš, and 23km upstream near Zadvare, although there's no pub…

The first town of any size south of Split is OMIŠ, at the end of the Cetina Gorge, a defile furrowed out of the bone-grey karst by the River Cetina. For centuries, Orris was an impregnable pirate stronghold – repeated efforts to winkle them out, including one expedition in 1221 led by the pope himse…

The coast south of Split is perhaps the most dramatic in the country, with some of the Adriatic's best beaches sheltering beneath the papier-macheheights of the karst mountains, a easily accessible on the frequent coastal bus service. Most of the beaches are pebble or shingle, and all served by at l…