Old Bridge (Stari Most) Mostar

Mostar was only a **** trip from Sarajevo, 3 hours by bus for 18KM (9.00 euro pp). For the first time in a long time, we actually arrived in the day time allowing us to enjoy the sights that afternoon..it was a weird feeling believe me!

Mostar still holds very evident remarks of the recent conflict in the early 90's. Take a wonder down the …

... a gdy sie obudzilam, bylismy w Sarajewie.   ENGLISH: We made a deal with our French buddies that we`d travel to Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina with them, and afterwards - to Sarajevo. We left at 9:30, and already after half an hour we ...

... fixed up but it takes a long time to undo the damage that has been done. 'Ten years is not enough.' The old bridge itself was destroyed in 1993 and has since been rebuilt. Opened in 2004 the new 'old bridge' is an exact replica of the original. What ...

... we left Dubrovnik to head back North, toward home. But first we detoured to the town of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mostar is famous for its Old Bridge, which was built 1557-1566 and, at the time, was the longest single-span stone arch bridge on the ...

... good. Don't go package, sort it out yourself for huge savings. Lovely women also. Mostar - The view of the destroyed and rebuilt Stari Most (old bridge) from the grounds of the 16th century Mosque is one of the nicest I've ever seen. And contrasted with ...

... with hopping arches for gates, and a Muslim graveyard whose white tombstones were crooked, diamond-shaped posts.  Mostar's "Stary Most" (Old Bridge), for pedestrians only, was chalk white and shaped like a wide-open hairpin.  On hot days, ...

... their hospitality.    During the war in 1993 the city was almost completely demolished. One of the main targets was the "old bridge" and they succeeded blowing it to pieces in the river below. Since then it has been completely rebuilt the exact ...

... even though I started out without a plan, little research, and just the hope that I would eventually end up in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Even by my standards the journey was nuts.    Had good ole Ryanair not arrived thirty minutes ...

... in the Australian capital over the Brumbies since 1998, we hugged the Adriatic coast and then climbed over the mountains and into Bosnia and Herzegovina.  We needed to buy a insurance green-card at the border, but otherwise no hiccups. When arriving ...

... just as close, if not closer, to nearby Mostar - and just couldn't pass up a visit to this important small city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I had half-jokingly told Laura I would take the kids to Bosnia, so Mostar it is! I hadn't calculated on the ...

... all the Orthodox churches. Outside the town, the Serbs pour in bombs and shells. The Croats had already declared that Bosnia and Herzegovina an independent Croat territory in 1991, so Croat forces get to work driving all Muslims out of  the western ...