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- Sarajevo
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Not Allowed To Talk About Football
This is a top pick! ... from Sarejevo, and we have another five hours to kill before our next train - we're hoping the football goes to penalties. Bosnia's been great. The countryside is some of the most beautiful we've ever seen, and the contrast of the Mosques, the ...
It's hard not to be overwhelmed...
This is a top pick! ... was my primary concern in 1995? It is completely incomprehesible that then, here, 'ethnic cleansing' took place: thousands and thousands brutally murdered whilst refugees in UN safe areas; shells obliterating market places where people queued for ...
the night before
This is a top pick! ... . We shared the room with the French guys and two other girls that were already asleep when we got there. Therefore only me and Marcin were, let's say, a mixed squad. The French guys grabbed the last bunk bed without even thinking, thus the sofa bed was ...
Going loco down in Sarajevo!
This is a top pick! ... position because he couldn't handle lying anymore. The US knew all about what was going on the whole time but did nothing to help. Bosnia doesn't have oil. We walked down the river to clear our heads and walked into a park. We could see a bunch of ...
Welcome to Sarejevo
This is a top pick! ... 've got loads of photos by the way, but we can't upload them yet, so check back in a bit for bullet riddled buildings and Vinny's beard (The horror). Sarejevo is pretty non-discript during the day. It's just another eastern European city with cafes and ...
Coke a day keeps booze away
This is a top pick! ... -Cola was the only thing that tasted as good as wine so I started drinking that. "Now I have a glass in the morning, before and after lunch, with my dinner and then before I go to bed. I never drink anything else." The pensioner added that he has no ...
jumping from the bridge
This is a top pick! ... we left Mostar, we were driving through a canyon, by a river. The view was breathtaking. The whole country of Bosnia and Herzegovina is about mountains, mountains and again mountains. It`s beautiful. A shame that at the moment when we were passing the ...
Vegas Baby
This is a top pick! ... get. Vinny had a whiskey brunch with the young guy who owns the house we're in, and he was saying that Croatians come and go through Bosnia as they please, whereas he's a Bosnian Muslim and can't go anywhere. We went out for beers with our new chum, ...
Vrelo Bosna
This is a top pick! ... had no idea where to go when we got off and it struck us that there is not a lot of tourist infrastructure here in Bosnia yet. Perhaps there had been before the war but if so then little remains. Public toilets, for example are virtually non-existent and ...
Bosnian muslim family life
This is a top pick! ... on our backapcks and producing a sign "Żelenica", there stopped a pretty big old school van, with a Muslim family from Bosnia inside. And we even hadn`t had time to start waving! They were going in the opposite direction than we wanted, thus we said ...
A lazy day in Mostar
This is a top pick! ... Dubrovnik. Most visitors to Mostar are day trippers rather than overnight stayers. There are some lovely shops selling handicrafts and (some) cheesy souvenirs, but the shopkeepers are remarkably laid back. Perhaps this was more noticeable after the high ...
Sarajevo to Mostar
This is a top pick! ... a series of lakes. This has created a number of lovely lakeside villages. The hills surrounding the valley were extremely steep, craggy and barren, creating an eerie atmosphere that was added to by the mist that shrouded them in secrecy. As we came out ...
Fall Vacation Pt 4: Day Trip to Kotor & Mostar
This is a top pick! ... interesting in that it was filled with dark wood furnishings and completely covered in rugs. After Mostar we drove through Bosnia-Herzegovina back toward Split, in Croatia. This interior drive was not as interesting as we had anticipated. ...
Vinny's Vision
This is a top pick! ... on each place and round of with a few thank yous. Amsterdam - smoke filled lunacy. Copenhagen - an amazingly calm, comforting and beautiful capital city. Lovely women also. Stockholm - shame we didn't have longer once we found the older parts and ...
Intermission: Entry No 20!!
This is a top pick! ... " 5 Ace Ventura "Do I have something in my teeth?" Honourable Mentions: Will Farrell, Stiller, Parker & Stone, Ferris Bueller and Groundhog Day. Top 5 Action Films 1 Aliens 2 Predator 3 Hard Boiled 4 Die Hard 5 The Rock Honourable Mentions: ...
Stepping into a War Zone
This is a top pick! ... me break out my camera a little more discreetly. The big attraction of Mostar is its famous bridge (most means bridge in Bosnia, Serbia and all the other countries with the same language). The famous site is a big-arched pedestrian bridge where local boys ...
Water, water everywhere!
This is a top pick! ... way South on our trip we had skipped the Plitvice Lakes National Park due to rainy weather. As we drove North after leaving Bosnia-Herzegovina, on our way back toward the park, the weather turned bad again with very heavy rain and fog. We arrived late ...
Sarajevo
This is a top pick! ... was an interesting experience with lots of delays, especially at boarder crossings. We bused through the Bulgarian and Serbian countryside before we headed into Bosnia. It was gorgeous. It actually reminded us of fall at home. This was the first ...
Dobre dan from Boznia & Herzegovina
This is a top pick! ... took us to the nearby town of Foca. This is where we first sampled the traditional food called zeljanica, cheese and spinach wrapped in pastry served hot accompanied with youghurt for a drink...delicious. Followed by chocolate doughnuts all for 6KM ...
The Beauty of Bosnia
This is a top pick! ... one huge bed when all of the chairs reclined, so between being woken up for the two boarder crossings (Hungry/Croatia and Croation/Bosnia)the 4 of us slept soundly. I would have carried on travelling with them, all three were onward bound for Croatia ...
Lovely lovely lokrum famed for its beauty ...
This is a top pick! Lovely, lovely Lokrum. Famed for its beauty, botanical garden and nudisticko's! Full details of adventures on www.bootsnall.com, travel article section "Croatia" ...
The Bridge of Mostar
This is a top pick! ... and destruction. So when we found out about Mostar and a 16th century bridge, we thought it would be interesting to see how Bosnia had recovered. Pre-war Mostar had been a small town with the focus on two religions separated by a river. Muslims on ...
My Birthday in Sarajevo
This is a top pick! ... kicked off the First World War. Having just come from Gallipoli this had even greater significance. Despite being a similar longitude to Turkey, Bosnia is an hour behind, so the sun sets not long after 4pm. It was dusk as we headed back to Halvat for a ...
THE THINGS I SAW (GOING TO TURKEY)
This is a top pick! ... the early 1990's, the Serbs (Orthodox Christians), Croats (Catholics), and Muslims all blew up each other's houses. And Bosnia & Herzegovina is made up of an almost even portion of each. They have a beautiful country, especially the southern ...
Beyond the symbolism
This is a top pick! ... it's hard to just think of it as a city. But it is just a city, and a pretty cool one at that. I crossed into Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday and spent a night in Mostar. The city was almost completely destroyed during the Balkan war, but massive ...
Senseless
This is a top pick! ... , and I was thinking to myself, I should not be here, but the tourist dollar was needed for the people, so I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. I really felt like getting on a bus and leaving straight away, but where was I to go to at this time of ...
Balkan War Madness In Bosnia.
This is a top pick! ... . We probably did not take a lot of notice – after all, these countries are a long way from Australia. Our trip to Bosnia and Hercegovina, (pretty long name for a country – so I’ll just say Bosnia in this blog) plunged us into a history ...
Finding Franz Ferdinand
This is a top pick! ... lesson 1914 Whilst having a tour around Sarajevo, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, starting WW1 1984 Sarajevo have the Winter Olympics and everyone is happy 1991 - 1994 The war in the part of the former Slavic states Well, I have my ...
Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina
This is a top pick! ... trees that you would usually see in the Italian countryside. On this trip, we would actually have to cross 3 borders. Bosnia and Herzegovina actually has a 1 KM slice of the coastline within Croatia as part of an agreement that goes back to the times of ...
A tragic side of life - BOSNIA
This is a top pick! So I hopped in a car with a local Croat and headed to Bosnia. Our first stop was Medugorje. This is the second most pilgramiged place in the world. In 1991 two girls where hiking the mountain when they say the Virgin Mary spoke to them. People have ...