Sali and Telašcica Nature Park

The largest and most westerly island of the Zadar archipelago, facing the open sea, Dugi Otok culminates at its southern end with a spectacular nature preserve in and around Telaš?ica Bay, the town of Sali being its ideal access point. Situated toward the southeastern tip of the 52-km-long (32-mile-long) island, which is no more than 4 km (2½ miles) wide, Sali is Dugi Otok's largest settlement—with around half of the island's 1,800 inhabitants, the rest of whom reside mostly in its 10 other villages—but it's an awfully peaceful little place to arrive in after the two-hour ferry ride from Zadar.