SLOVENIA: The Great Museum Of Illusions,

A new museum in Ljubljana promises to be a mind-bending experience. The Museum of Illusions in the Slovenian capital aims to take travellers through a series of optical illusions, holograms and more.

According to its website, visitors will have to have their cameras ready for exhibits that make people look like their head is on a platter, a rotated room where they can walk on the ceiling, an “anti-gravity” room where balls rolls upwards and water flows uphill, and an Ames room that will make visitors shrink and grow like Alice in Wonderland.

There is also the Vortex Tunnel that “will drive you crazy and make you believe you’re heavily struggling just to make a step forward through a rotating cylinder – on a surface so stable and flat”.

But the tricks are intended to do more than just disorient, they are designed to teach visitors about vision, perceptions, the human brain and science. The museum is open every day from 9 am to 10 pm and it located at Congress Square, one of the city’s central squares.

While the museum is new in Ljubljana, it’s not the first of its kind in Europe.

Zadar, Croatia also has a Museum of Illusions, as does Barcelona, Moscow and St Petersburg.

CROATIA: Croatian Tourism Board Says Business Is Better Than 2015

Croatia has recorded more tourist overnight stays than it did in all of 2015, the Croatian Tourism Board has said in a statement…

From 1 January to 9 September 2016 Croatia has recorded 13.63 million tourist arrivals and 80.24 million overnight stays, more than what was recorded in the whole of last year, according to data from eVisitor and eCrew check-in and check-out information systems.

“Since the start of the year we have generated over 80 million tourist nights, surpassing the results achieved in all 12 months of 2015. These results would not have been possible without cooperation between the public and private sectors, the innovativeness and commitment to work of all our tourist workers,” Tourism Minister Anton Kliman said, adding that this year’s revenues from tourism would be above expectations.

Istria welcomed the most tourists so far this year with 20 million overnight stays, followed by the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County (14 million), Split-Dalmatia (12.6 million), Zadar (9 million), Dubrovnik-Neretva (5.6 million) and Šibenik-Knin (4.9 million).

The Germans once again were Croatia’s largest group of tourists (13.2 million overnights), followed by tourists from Slovenia, Austria, Italy and Poland.