Things to Do in Dobrinj

The quiet inland half of Krk — a hilltop village, a show cave and a healing mud bay. Bring a car.

Dobrinj is the part of Krk most visitors never reach. It covers the island's north-east: a hilltop village looking inland, a long shallow bay on the east coast, and a scatter of small settlements between them. There is no resort strip here.

The village itself sits high enough to see a good part of the island, and the views are free. Its ethnographic collection is one of the few places on Krk where the interior's own history is set out rather than the coast's. Both are open year-round, which is unusual on an island where most things shut in October.

Two things are worth the drive on their own. Biserujka Cave, above Rudine, is Krk's only show cave and is open all year. And Soline bay, on the east coast, is a mud bath rather than a beach — people go there to sit in the grey clay, not to swim, and it is free.

The Glagolitic Path at Gabonjin runs through the countryside that gave the island its oldest writing, and it too is walkable in any month.

One thing to plan around: every one of the five listings here needs a car. This is the half of Krk the bus does not really serve, and that is precisely why it stays quiet in August.