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Hello my loves and welcome to the ultimate guide of Split

So having spent over a month in Split, I feel like I'm the perfect person to give you this guide

So I hope you do enjoy if you're excited, hit that thumbs up. If you're visiting, let me know in the comments section down below

If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to. hesitate to ask, reach out to me either in the comments or over on my Instagram

So to make this guide as easy as possible, I've organised it into sections and we're

going to start off with my favourite, which is where to eat. So in Split, there's an absolute

abundance of places you can eat. They have all types of cuisine and they really do cater

to everyone's needs. You can find everything from bigger houses, sushi restaurants and even

vegetarian and vegan places too. Today I'll share with you some of the places I actually went to and

that are ones that I can recommend. However, there are so many more. So please do a little bit of

your own research, walk around and see what takes your fancy and just try something out that's new

This one here is actually called Basta. It was on the marina front and it was actually really

well priced for its location. You have a view of the harbour and it's a great pizza space

Also lovely to stop for like a weekend cocktail or a coffee. So if you're staying a long time like we were, some nights you might not feel like going out

So another alternative would be to use Walt. Walt is an app

It's a bit like Deliveroo or Jesse, and you can order from, like, so many different restaurants on there

There's, again, loads of choice. We had a great Thai place. I'll pop the name on the screen

And we also ordered a few pizzas from another name I'll pop on the screen here

because I can't remember off the top of my head. And both of them were great, and I could highly recommend

But it's also got, like, ratings on there. So you can kind of, like, find what you want based on, like, cost

and other people's ratings, so it's a really good app. They also do deliver other things as well

so maybe like groceries or we actually got some yoga mats delivered

things like that that maybe you can't find by walking around, but they're on the app. So it's definitely worth using

You can also get a discount code if you sign up a friend, so I'll leave a link down below

and then if you sign up via that, you get $3.50 off. And again, if you are staying for longer than maybe a week

you may want to do some of your own cooking. and there's loads of grocery stores around one I would recommend though close to the centre

it's about five minute walk out of the centre it's called it's called little i feel like everyone knows what

little is but it's the most affordable definitely but most of the supermarkets are actually just dotted

around the town centre if you type in tommy or consum then you'll be able to find them next we'll move on to

see and things to do obviously one of my favorite things to do here is literally just walk around the old town

exploring all it has to offer the amazing buildings so much history here and what I would highly

recommend doing if you want to learn about that is to find a guy who which says walking tour on

and pay him X amount of Cooner to tell you about the history because it's such a beautiful place

with so much history and it would be a shame not to learn about it whilst you're here and there's

also when you're walking around you can literally just get lost in the cobbled streets and I think

it's quite a fun thing to do just spend maybe an hour or two just wandering around

seeing what you find as around every corner there's just beautiful cafe shops

restaurants and quirky little stores with just yeah so much to see another thing to

see in split would be the fish market and they have a local fish market every day from

6 a.m. till 1 p.m. and they also have like a local veg and fruit and veg market where they

also have some stalls of local selling like homemade goods maybe some honey olive oil which is very

popular here as they grow it all themselves and you can also get things like

souvenirs there flowers and just little bits and bobs So in split there are many

beaches visit they all sort of lead onto one another so if you start walking you'll find most of them

you can either head from the center of the river left this is left you'll find the first um

beach is the only sand beach i think in split and then following on from that there's more just

pebble pebble beaches my personal favorite was if you turn right you go past the marina you go

past the little park and it's kind of tricky to find but just persevere and find it because you go around this

absolutely beautiful coastline where you can go rock jumping the water is just the

clearest you've ever seen and you find some absolutely amazing parks um beaches there and these

this is all part of the marjoram park so um i'll pop a little picture here the marjoram park is one of

my absolute must sees when visiting split because it's the most absolutely beautiful thing i've

ever seen in my life and it's huge so you might want to um hike up it one day

There's steps you can take from just the right side of the center of split

I think it's 300-something steps which will take you all the way to the highest peak

You can see Trigier from there, which is where I am actually now

And also you can just see loads of the beautiful islands. It's an absolutely great view

It would be lovely for sunrise, sunset. We hiked up in the middle of the day and it was beautiful

Just bear in mind, obviously, what time of view you go. It's going to be kind of to be kind of toasty. until you got your SPF on

but we also went around the other side of it so you have to kind of walk through the town centre

to find the other side, the other entrance but I would highly recommend doing this because that side was stunning

like there was mountains, there was sea the crystal clear waters were just beautiful

there wasn't so many beaches as such but the walk was absolutely stunning

you can't actually do a loopwalk of the whole Marjoram Park probably take you quite a while

without going to the peak just around but I definitely think you should do it

get yourself a picnic, take a little lunch down there. I think that is a cafe or a restaurant down there as well

so you might not have to worry about that. But I highly recommend doing that

There's also a little like workout bit in the park itself as well

Or you could hire some bicycles and cycle around it. It is either a foot or bicycle, though

Actually saying that, I do think there is a bus that might drop you off there. So if you aren't able to do walking or biking

then I highly do recommend just go and to see it because it's some of the most stunning views

that I've ever seen in my entire life. I'll try and pop some clips on the screen so you can see that, wow, you have to do it for yourself

As far as excursions go, I always think when I click on an ultimate guide to somewhere

I don't want to see trips to X, X, X, X, X, X, X, like all these different places

I want to see things I can do where I am, but I kind of get why people do include these things

so I have included them in today's video just because there are some things to do

which, as you are so close to them from Split, it would be a shame to miss

So the Kirke National Park and Waterfalls are around one hour away from Split

You can drive there or take an excursion that's planned already. We decided to rent a car and drive ourselves

We parked a little bit further away and then you can get this awesome boat which takes you

about 15 minutes on the boat to the National Park and to the waterfalls

We actually decided to walk back about an hour long walk if you did want to do that So it costs around each to get into the waterfalls and it took around two hours probably just to see it all at a leisurely place

There is also like food and drink there, coffees, beers, those kinds of things

But you can also take your own in which is quite nice. So another excursion would be to take a trip to one of the islands

We actually visited the third biggest island here in Croatia, which is called Brach

It was about a 50 minute ferry ride over. You can get the ferry, you can buy the ticket on the day

or you can buy it online on the Jad Rulina. I'll leave the link here and down below in the description box website

That costs around £8 for the tour bus each way. You need to be there about 15 minutes early

but I'd say give yourself half an hour to buy your ticket and to board the ferry. There are also other excursions that we haven't done

but that are very well known here, which such things as there's a blue cave tour

and like I said, lots of other island tours. I think there's like a tour you can go around five of the islands in one day

those kind of things. So lovely options to do if you were looking to see more of Croatia

Okay, so I've dedicated a separate part of this video to coffee shops. If you are a digital nomad or travelling as a entrepreneur

and you want to work for some coffee shops, these are my top picks

Also places to get a really good coffee, which is super important for me personally

and also the Arca working spaces which I will pop on the screen as well

Okay so number one has to be it's called terra terra terra

I have no idea if that's right but this one is 100 for views

also you can get the Carver Slug there which is a traditional Croatian coffee

you can either have an espresso and then it has basically this like ice cream

style cream so it's like this really cold cream just in the top this

was an absolute treat. I love these, so definitely try that. Or it's just great for like views

but this is just a lovely place. I can just imagine, I didn't actually work here, but I could imagine working here, and it just being the dream come true. My second pick is actually a coffee

slash gin house. We didn't go back for gin, but I think it looked insane. The coffee there was

the best coffee I did have in Split. And I'll leave the name of this place on the screen

My third option is a takeaway only. This is lovely if you just want to go and get your morning coffee

go for a little stroll around the streets. This is called like four coffee special or something like that

It's fairly reasonably priced. It's a little bit more expensive than like your bog stand's coffee

as it is more of a speciality coffee shop. But it's really cute

It's kind of quirky. When you know where it is it's easy to find, but initially it was a little bit difficult to find

Those would be my top three picks 100% for coffee shops. For me, one of the best things I have a lot of coffee shop

For me, one of the best things I actually found here was the shopping mall, which if you are obviously a subscriber of my channel

you'll know my whole channel is mostly about fashion and a little bit about lifestyle. And the shopping mall, so the Mall of Split

is probably one of the best malls I've been to, in my life. I've been to some great ones in America and also in Malaysia

but the Mall of Split was absolutely just everything you need and more

And also I have to mention the Zara in Split itself was absolutely just gorgeous

so if you don't get a chance to go to the Mall of Split, then you can definitely get a little bit of shopping done in Split itself

but I would highly recommend visiting the Zara in Split as a lot of my wardrobe has just come from there

The best way to get to the Mall of Split would either be to rent a scooter if you feel comfortable to do so

or just get an Uber, it's super easy and really affordable. There is an alternative, which is to get the free bus

It does take an hour, and it's only a 15-minute journey by car, it's completely up to you and obviously whatever your budget allows

So whilst we were in Split, we did everything by foot. We did rent a car one day

I will recommend the car company we used. It was called Luta. Pop the details down below the description box

And they were really well priced, really easy to pick up. It was it right in the centre and there was just like no fuss or stress

We had a brand new car. It was beautiful and it was just exactly what we needed. So personally I think you can get around mostly on foot

But if you are doing excursions, you can obviously do paid ones. or if you want to do it yourself you can hire a car for the day So it entirely up to you and your budget You do see a lot of scooters around as well like the electric scooters

So if anyone is looking for some way to get around, it's a little bit easier

We did do a lot of steps, I'm not going to lie. But I think it was definitely lovely, and you get to see a lot more by foot

Obviously, it does restrict you a little bit from going too far. You're not keen on walking for a long time

Some of the beaches were a little bit further, but we enjoyed the walk to get to them

You could also rent a bicycle or a like a moped. Both of them are kind of like I guess reasonable

If you're here for a short time, maybe you could negotiate for a long term rental if you're here for a little bit longer like we were

Like I said, I honestly think you can see most of the places that you want to see in split by foot

A few additional extras that I forgot to mention would be when you've arrived at split, you can get an Uber from the airport super easy and proper

super easy and probably a lot cheaper than a taxi. There's a luggage storage point if you can't

check into your Airbnb as early as you arrive called there's an app called Bounce where you can do

lots of local places and also obviously if you were going to check out earlier and still wanted to

explore for your last day you could also use this you normally pay for either 24 hours per piece

of luggage or you can pay for like an hour I think or something like that but it's very very

reasonable service. I'd say most of the restaurants are fairly usually priced. I'd say it's probably a little bit under UK prices. It depends where you

eat. If you eat on the river along the front, it's a lot more. And then you can find more local

places. It's a bit less. There are some very expensive places which I haven't really

included. Most of the places we ate at were reasonably priced. I would see the sushi

place was a little bit higher but sushi normally is. Other things that I forgot to mention

that maybe we didn't do but maybe of interest to you if you like, it's a little bit of

night out apparently the place to be is Fabric which is on the sea front just at the end of the

river to the right there's also a beautiful church on the front as well right by fabric which is

really pretty and there's also loads of museums we didn't actually go to any because we've

been to London recently and been to quite a few because it was very neat and so we're kind of

all museumed out but there's loads of museums and split to go to especially if you're into

art history these kind of things and then you're literally going to be taught

between which one to go to. If you are on more of a budget there are loads of, um, if you go to the

more local places, you can get a coffee for around a pound. There's loads of bakeries and they

love their pastries here. So you can definitely go and just pick up something like for lunch

in one of these places. You get a coffee in a croissant for probably two pounds. You can get

something for lunch for probably around one to two pound in the smaller bakeries, which are dotted

around the place everywhere. So you definitely can see the city. on a lower budget and obviously book something through Airbnb. There's also hostels here

And then obviously if you are at a higher budget, there's some lovely hotels. We booked an

Airbnb for a month and we had a really good deal. I know that the prices do go up in high season

but it's obviously you can spend a bit of time looking. You definitely can find some good bargains

Another thing Split has an abundance of is ice cream shops. So there's so many ice cream shops

I would say though my favourite was called Lunars or Lukas. I'll pop it here. And the ice cream

there was amazing. I think it's all homemade. They also have cakes in there which looked insane

So if you have a special occasion or event, it would be a great place to pick up a cake for that as well

And then finally they also had these cute pastry shops called Barbies, which also felt ice cream

which were amazing. They did like lovely strudels, lovely things for lunch

a little bit more expensive than like a standard bakery, but I really would recommend trying them because they're lovely and they're almost on like every corner here

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