Aerial panorama above Pakleni Islands with Hvar Island in the background
Old town of Hvar from the old Fort above the city
Aerial panorama above the Pakleni Islands with Hvar Island in the back and crystal clear waters below
Mlini beach on Pakleni Islands (Island Martinkovac)
Aerial panorama of the Pakleni Islands (Ždrilce bay)
Mlini beach
Panorama from atop the Martinkovac Island
Panorama of the town of Skradin
[…] The Pakleni or Paklinski islands are located off the southwest coast of the island of Hvar, Croatia, opposite the entrance to the Hvar harbour. The name is popularly translated as Hells’ islands, but it originally derives from paklina, an archaic word, from which pakleni too is derived, that means “tar”, and in this case refers to the pine resin once used to coat ships that was harvested on these islands. For a diferent perspective you must see panorama photographs from Hvar. […]