Showing posts with label Places - Dalmatia - Island: Iz; Vegetarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Places - Dalmatia - Island: Iz; Vegetarian. Show all posts

May 12, 2010

Hotel Korinjak - Unique ecological and holistic hotel in Croatia - Yoga and vegetarian holidays in Croatia

Hotel “Korinjak” is the first hotel on the Adriatic specialized for ecological, health and holistic programs, offering also healthy vegetarian diet based on traditional home cuisine. Allocated at the entrance to the small harbour of Veli Iž on a colourful point in the mists of pine tree forest and surrounded by beaches. Island of Iž is an ideal holiday spot for anyone searching for peace and quiet.

The hotel has the capacity of 80 rooms with bathroom, in total 200 beds, most with balcony and a view of the see or the pine tree park. The restaurant is located on a wide covered terrace above the hotel beach. The lobby of the hotel has an aperitif bar and there is also a bar with a small terrace on the beach.

In the vicinity of the hotel you can find a camp whose guests can enjoy the beautiful pine tree forest by the see. Camp’s guests use the meals service of the hotel. The hotel has three halls for organizing seminars or workshops and a small hall for individual treatments.
In addition to the restaurant in which we serve balanced vegetarian diet the hotel has a snack bar with refreshment at the beach.

Each year Hotel Korinjak offers numerous supplementary activities such as:


  • Salutation to the Sun
  • Morning Yoga Exercises
  • Pranic Healing
  • Peace and Harmony Prayer
  • Circle Dances
  • Voice discovering School
  • Tantra integration of spirituality and sexuality
  • HATMARA – MERKAVA – transformation of vital energy
  • GONG YOGA
  • Art and musical workshop
  • HATAMARA-MERKAVA – Connecting with inner guidance
  • Thai Massage
  • Reflexive foot massage
  • Classical massage
  • Acupuncture therapy
  • Reiki therapy
  • Shiatsu massages
  • Bio energy treatments
  • Gong bathes
  • Hatha yoga
  • Ayur Veda treatments
  • Prana healing
  • etc
More info on Hotel Korinjak web page.

Island Iz is situated in northern Dalmatia, between Dugi otok and Ugljan. Island Iz has two tourist villages; Veli Iz and Mali Iz. Veli Iz and Mali Iz are beautiful little villages, surrounded by fig trees, olive gardens and vegetable plantations. Iz is the most picturesque island of the Zadar archipelago. It is covered with typical Mediterranean bush and cultivated with approximately 70.000 olive trees.

Island Iz can be reached from Zadar by bus (there is bus every hour), by car (you can park your car at the guarded parking place in Zadar or you can take a ferry boat from Zadar), by a regular or speed boat line. Zadar is well connected through its airport and other means of transportation with the rest of Croatia and Europe.


Today's Veli Iz is a small tourist village with a hotel, a marina, a few restaurants and café’s and 300 beds in private accommodation.



Veli Iž is as if painted onto the shores of its wide bay, the high bell-tower of St Peter’s in the middle. The hundred year old dockyard and the contemporary marina are, alongside traditional carpentry, sailing and fishing, are the symbols of the town.











On the island you can find various kinds of beaches, sandy, gravel, beaches made of stones and rocks and cemented beaches. In Veli Iz are two public beach, one in front of hotel and one on small island of Rutnjak, 300 m away from port, which is a clothes-free (naturist) beach reachable from Veli Iz by a taxi-boat. But the whole island is a one large beach with many lagoons, so you can rent a bike and enjoy in discovering of island.




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