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Dalmatia
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 From Klis, the road forges across the stony uplands of the Dalmatinska Zagora towards Sinj, 20km further on. It's a route traversed by frequent buses from Split, although you'll need your own transport to make the worthwhile side-trip to the Vranjaća Cave (Spilja Vranjaca; Easter–Oct daily 9am-5pm; ask at the nearby post office if there's no caretaker at the entrance), along a side-road to the east.To get there turn right about 3km beyond Klis and head through the village of Dugopolje ("Long Field", so named because it's in a typical po1je, or fertile depression, common to karstic areas) towards a group of hamlets known collectively as Kotlenice. In the first of these, VLADOVIĆ, there's a small car park from which a gravel track leads to the cave. Discovered by the grandfather of the cave's current caretaker and guide, the cave is explored via a steep stairway which descends some 100m down into a chamber about 150m long, filled with honey-brown stalactites and stalagrnites.The 65-million-year-old formations grow at a rate of lmm every thirty-five years and include fluted limestone curtains and forms resembling the bunched heads of cauliflowers.
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