Barabrith - Krnjak

Good services updated by previous rating on 2021-11-29

We were two nights in barabrith and really enjoyed our time there. it was great to be surrounded by nature and this peaceful atmosphere. especially our neat wood room was comfortable. the hostes were welcoming and very friendly, which made us feel as if we were to hausemoreover, which was prepared by the hostes was simply delicious! it was an honor for us to be able to taste the vegan version of barabrith, which tasted excellent. we had burek with various fillings such as musrooms or different types of sweet and sweet and we also had some delicious baked kartoffels with beautiful filled paprika from their own garden. all in all we can only recommend jons barabrith (both the cake and the accommodation).

I spent a week there in september 2019. what an explosion! the host are beautiful, the place is quiet and beautiful as expected. with some tailor-made arrangements with the hostes we organized a trip to a national park “nearby”, as well as picking up in a nearby station and meal, with vegetables from their garden! the accommodation was clean, WiFi connection, private loo, great for some reading or exploring round. I had one of the biggest times when I visited a new land! also there is a cat and a dog that is the sweetest! I had a hard time to say goodbye!

I had a really cool time in barabrith. the place is an oasis they do not expect to come on the land of this region. it is an inspiring little DIY household with friendly and generous people I really like to talk to. the older man is above all just a bundle of laughs and joy! he is also a great collector of funny things, so if they have luck, he could give them a look into his room that will be true like a teenage dream! our accommodation was beautiful and minimalist, quite perfect by my standards a large comfortable bed in a room all covered with wood. besides an excellent selection of books, the kitchen offers all kinds of tasty sauces, flavors, nuts, tees and many other tasty things. every day our host made great meals for us, mostly with a nice from their own garden. but the nerves do not end up on the surface of the table! when they remove the tablecloth and lift the top, it becomes a pool table! unnecessary to say, most evenings we stayed in the kitchen long after dinner was over. regarding the breakfast, I would suggest the neat handmade pavillon in the hof, with a view of the incredibly quiet forest that we walk through afterwards. they can have some really nice mushrooms on the way and their little carry to lunch on these wise. one day we rode into a friendly neighbor, who removed a fallen tree from the forest path, and he invited us to his house for some fine homemade rakija. my favorite adventure was cycling to the river. the water is incredibly clean and the secluded, cozy little beach offers a really beautiful view. our mischievous host thought of a great idea to entertain us, he tied a rope to a tree to swing and jump into the river! to hit an equal weight between affen to and some serious tourism, we went to check the interesting bits of the partisan story near the festival and to overbid everything, we had to even a for the whole week that I spent in barabrith, I felt free from the cracks of the damaging city life and got a hauch from an independent, creative lifestyle that supports itself through solidarity among all the participating creatures.

We stopped for a week here in September 2019 and really enjoyed the vegan food, the local knowledge and history willingly shared and walks and visits in the area. The surroundings are very heavily wooded so good for heading out for a walk, finding nuts, fruits and fungi and for seeing where the local wild boar have been turning over the soil. Unless you want to have just a quiet retreat (listening to the ravens calling overhead) then you might want to hire bicycles or a car to explore further afield. We visited the remains of a Partisan Hospital hidden in the woods that was being restored, the wreck of the printers from the same era, limestone caves, went river swimming, went to flea markets (Karlovac and Zagreb), saw the bullet holed homes from the 90s war and large monuments partly stripped of shiny metal cladding. We will certainly go back again and look forward to seeing how the place's land and local food growing develops with the help of ideas and work from visitors prepared to muck in. We really felt welcome. The accommodation itself is basic but was clean, comfortable and had water, electric and wifi everything we needed. We live in as rural a part of Scotland as this is a rural part of Croatia but think it would be a great place for those needing to get away from the noise, pollution and stresses associated with city life.