Pristina, Serbia and Montenegro Travel Blogs

venturing into Kosovo
Nov 7, 2007 (6 photos)

... ' tales of Kosovo had piqued my interest. This interest slowly developed into an infatuation with UNMIK (UN Mission in Kosovo) and getting a stamp from customs. I figured that with the elections looming later in December, I was safe. I didnt know that ...

Kosovo
Sep 25, 2009 (27 photos)

... habe ich uebrigens kein McDonalds mehr gesehen, amerikanische Ketten haben es noch nicht in diese Kleinstaaten geschafft. Am Bushof in Pristina hat man mir mitgeteilt, dass es Busse nur am fruehen Nachmittag oder am fruehen morgen (4 Uhr) gibt. Keine ...

The Secret Agent
Nov 24, 2007 (3 photos)

... those two anyway? Well here we go, another brief history. First off, Chechnya is in Russia, Kosovo is in southern Serbia and Serbia borders Bosnia. Both were part of Yugoslavia. The mess in Kosovo goes back to 1389, when the area was conquered by the ...

Where did the lights go??
Jul 31, 2006 (4 photos)

... troubled Kosovo region of Serbia (for the moment, at least; a referendum on independence is on the cards following the separation of Montenegro) is perhaps not the most scenic of cities. Some might say it's really quite ugly. Me, for one. However, for the ...

Disputed territory and nascent state
Jul 6, 2007

... procedure at borders, after all - I told him to go ahead. He added though that it might cause difficulties if I went to Serbia later, so we went for the stamped entry card route instead. After he descended then (with my passport), the bus pulled forward a ...

Arrival in Pristinė
Oct 14, 2006

First things first: Although this entry says that Pristinė (Prishina) is in "Serbia and Montenegro," that's only because the folks at travelpod haven't updated the national status of Kosovo (It is a United Nations administered territory). Bro and I ...

Status Undetermined
Jul 8, 2007

... today. It was just a daytrip from Skopje, Macedonia. Due to that I slept too late this morning, I didn't make the bus to Pristina at 8>00 and ended up taking the 11am bus. Since it took 2 and 1/2 hours to get there and the last bus back to Skopje is around ...

Pristina - Kosovo
Jul 9, 2008 (2 photos)

... but not get into Serbia.  The only way we could get into Serbia was to drive BACK through Kosovo and get lost AGAIN in the lovely Pristina, back into Macedonia, drive 20km round the corner to the Serbian border with Macedonia (on the bloody toll road ...

Pleasantly Surprised by Pristina
Sep 13, 2007 (17 photos)

... to the presence of UN peacekeepers everywhere. Known collectively as KFOR (Kosovo Force), they vary from town to town - in Pristina, it is mostly Swedish and UK peacekeepers, while in the south of Kosovo it is the Swiss, German and Turkish troops who are ...

Pristina, Kosovo
Nov 24, 2006

Friday 24 October

kosovo...
Jun 8, 2005

... fazem um triangulo cujos lados tem pai uns 80 kms...)bem...la fui eu, passei a fronteira, nada de especial, passaporte e tal, xeguei a pristina e fui directo pa klina...primeiro sinal de alarme: fui a viagem a falar com um medico q disse q axava q os ...

How the hell do you get out of Kosovo?
Jul 13, 2009 (21 photos)

... issues etc. After Belgrade Serbia I had a hankering to go somewhere less traveled... so I booked a bus to Pristina, Kosovo. A couple I'd met at EXIT in Serbia, Scot and Tash, decided to join me on the trip too. When our bus rolled up in Belgrade it had ...

Prishtina, Kosovo
Oct 7, 2005

... to no tourists - we didn't see anyone else lugging arund backpacks or suitcases. In fact, as we left Serbia & Montenegro, the border guard pointed at us and laughed. Not once, but twice. He thought it was hilarious that people would choose to go to ...

WELCOME TO WARM SNOWY KOSOVO
Mar 13, 2009 (5 photos)

... got a ways to go.  Immediately the scenery changes, though.  Instead of the well-defined countryside of Serbia, with its tilled soils and trash-strewn roads and streams, we're back into the mixed town/country hazh-pazh like Albania.  I ...

Pristina
Oct 21, 1977

Surrounded by Yugoslav Army bikers! Interesting to watch Slow going over mountains & along river gorges - lots of buses & trucks were a real nuisance. Scenery fabulous - rocky & wild, autumn colours

KOSOVO '99
Jun 10, 1999 (7 photos)

... better to sleeep tonight! I think these "tents" were to provide sniper's cover from this elevated position and it's fine view over Pristina. The next few minutes were a blur as we raced through the streets,glimpsing the local people for ...

Jul 01, 2009
Jul 1, 2009 (5 photos)

I'm in Kosovo...long story. rakija made us do it
Oct 27, 2006

... a visa, but luckily it was easy, just took 5 minutes, turns out everyone else needed one also. So finally we arrive in Pristina. The french girl, Sophie, meets us at the bus station, she happily greets everyone, and then there is me. But she she was ...

Day tripping into a new country...
Oct 14, 2009 (6 photos)

... there is very little of the city that is recognisabe. Hmmm I completely disagree with Travelpods decision to call Pristina part of Serbia and Montenegro... They are one of the few countries in eastern europe that take the euros (and they must be ...

Kosovo
Oct 12, 2008 (6 photos)

... when the two republics declared independence).  Greater Albania consists  of Kosovo, a chunk of Macedonia and slithers of Serbia and Montenegro.  There is a chance that Albania and the newly independent Kosovo will seek to form Greater ...

Day 2
Feb 4, 2009 (1 photos)

Day 2 entry

Pristina
Oct 27, 2006

pris

kosovo
Jun 22, 2008

 

Pristina
May 16, 2006 (5 photos)

... . After a disagreement he threw my luggage to the street and took $20USD and left. Hmmm, seems that things here work on deutchmarks and it's 2 of those per USD. Somehow I don't think that's the "official" rate of exchange, but then, not much was "official" ...

Kosovo
Jun 29, 2006

... in Kosovo), and the headquarters of the UN looks like a guarded colonial compound that the locals are forbidden from entering. And Prishtina is certainly an American-friendly city, the main street into town is called 'Bill Clinton,' complete with a 50 ft ...

kosovo
Oct 24, 2001

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Kosovo, here we come!
Sep 9, 2009 (3 photos)

... along with a zuccini platter.  The food was amazing!  And so incredibly cheap compared to what we were used to in Croatia and Montenegro! After dinner we went back to the hotel and hit the sack.  We needed to get up early the next day for ...

Kosova and learning Albanian
May 24, 2006 (4 photos)

... several amazing natural wonders (like the source of the White Drin river which is a huge river that flows out of a mountain and immediately into a waterfall) . Our colleagues from Novi Sad and Croatia joined us for several days which was nice. We did a ...

I thought they were kidding...
Jan 8, 2008 (2 photos)

...More angry rants to come

Here we go again
Oct 1, 1999

Can you beat life in a tent?