A Story Of True Love,

that spans 14,000 kilometers, and happens ever year,

it is the story of Malena and Klepetan who travels ever year, for the past 16 years 14,000 kilometers to be with Malena who back in 1993, was found near a pond, injured and dying, 

the now 71-year-old Stjepan Vokic, a local school caretaker, adopted Malena in 1993 and nursed her back to health, in Croatia, every March, the male stork flies back to the village of Brodski Varos, where Malena is waiting for him,

they mate and have new babies each year, 62 so far, which Klepetan then teaches how to fly, before migrating with them to South Africa, the injured female stays behind, as she cannot fly, but she’s always well taken care of during the cold winter, Klepetan wears a tracking ring on one of his legs, and his final migratory destination has been traced to a wetland near Cape Town, in South Africa, some 14,500 km from Brodski Varos, it takes him little over a month to fly back to his beloved Malena every spring, Stjepan Vokic, who lives by himself, after losing his wife a few years ago, says that every time Klepetan arrives, he feels like one of his sons has returned home, what a heart warming story of true love, from all three of them.