Beautiful nature and surroundings. I recommend leaving your car at the entrance to the national park and exploring it by bike. We had electric bikes and it was great. We also climbed to the old Austro-Hungarian fort, from where there is a fantastic view. The new multimedia center is very well organized. We also went to the salt lake and saw the nearby cliffs.

If you see a “4” rating I think they didn’t go to the right places. This is one of the only tourist spots deserving of a “6 rating. The water colours are not seen in too many places (the closest would be the South Island of New Zealand). The interactive gallery and the viewing Center were world class

The view especially from the viewpoint is something to do in your life. A special panorama that you will harderly find elsewhere. The park is more a commercial than a natural one. Dedicated to the boats unfortunately often not respectful of the rules on wasting: nobody controls anyway. Only the main track is well maintained, whilst is hard to follow the others: not signed and not preserved. The bays and the lake is stagnant. However, you can have fantastic swims on the west side of the island. The sea is also nice in the beach in front of the restaurant but crouded of people and boats.

Telascica Nature Park is worth is visit but how you visit (boat trip, by car, without a car) will hugely impact your experience. Unfortunately the Park’s official website doesn’t tell you much to prepare for a visit which means you can miss alot! We visited by car coming from the mainland on a ferry. You enter the park at a turning just before Sali. We paid on arrival, around €7 per adult, €7 car and €5 per child, We found the staff on the desk helpful and they provided a map which made sense of the park. Driving through the first part of the park, you come the first beautiful bay (looking on to the 2 tiny islands). It looked good for swimming and the area was almost deserted in the middle of the day. Unfortunately restaurants around this part of the bay didn’t open until 4pm. Driving on further into the park you can turn left for the visitor centre or drive straight on to the car park. You can’t drive all the way down to Bay Mir. A free shuttle bus to Bay Mir is provided from the car park (twice an hour in August) for those with entrance tickets. The journey takes about 10 minutes. Bay Mir is the busiest part of Telascica. It’s a beautiful setting but does feel very commercial with lots of boats arriving and tourist prices for food. The water is good for swimming, our family enjoyed it. A short (steep) walk up a hill and you reach great cliff viewpoint. Also 5 minutes’ walk from Bay Mir and you can see/swim in the Salt Lake. The visitor centre (opened in 2022) is the best of its kind I’ve ever been to, don’t miss it, especially with children. It’s positioned at one of the island’s best viewpoints where you can view most of the park from above. After the heat of the day all its rooms are air-conditioned, and full of interactive features. It also has seating and a playground both in the shade. We could have stayed there 90 minutes or more, the children were rapt with the underwater/animals room. This visit completed an excellent day for us. Hope this helps others make sense of this beautiful place.