Marshall Apartments Mostar

... amazing stoires of my life and seeing how beatiful Bosnia is we all headed back to the hostel totally exhausted.

The next morning Brandon and I got up early as we wanted to do some more exploring of Mostar before taking a bus to Sarajevo. We started by first walking to the main highway in Mostar that represented the front line of the war between the Croats and Muslims. On one side of the highway are a couple buildings that are still in ruins 15 years later and the other ...

... diving abiities. The bridge was completely destroyed during the conflict and rebuilt in 2000 using 16th century techniques to keep it true to it's original form. I went to one of the history museums in town (I think there are three - though they're not that big, the one I visited was in the front rooms of a converted house!!) - downstairs was a small theatre and I watched a 15min video on the bridge, showing it prior to ...

Mostar -- September 2

We woke up very early to get to the train station for our 7:05am train to Mostar. We got to the station early and were thoroughly impressed by the loveliness of the train! The ride was spectacular through mountain scenery. Shortly after the town of Konjic we officially left Bosnia and entered Herzegovina. Immediately it became clear what the difference is -- the ...

... maybe call the number. She did and said the guy would be here in 10 minutes. I went up to wait in front of the store as we weren’t sure where he was going to go, the information booth or the hostel store.

When the guy arrived he didn’t speak English and the fact that Gabe and I had split up really confused him. He was expecting to pick up two people and we couldn’t get him to realize it was ...

... was going ot be for the famous tour I mentioned earlier, run by Bata the Badass. It started at 1030AM with a visit to the neighboring bakery for some awesome Burek, then stocking up on supplies for the day, which was going to be long. Our next stop was a medieval fortress on the outskirts of town, a beautifully ruined town on a hill that still has people living in what I can only called country houses, with little vines in the garden, cobbled roads all around that make it ...

... the gushing water coming out of a cave by a cliff. After that I hiked up to the ruin of an old castle to enjoy the view, and then back to a bar to try some locally produced red and white wine, before going to the bus stop, where, within minutes, without asking, somebody offered me a ride. He is a Serb, and was a captain in the Yugoslavian military during the war. So he must be a bad guy? I don’t know. His English wasn’t that good, but we did talk ...

... Way up on the top of the mountain, only 1 km away I was told but you had to walk. You know me and physical exercise!!! Another car full of tourists drove up so I decided to follow. It took a little off the hike but I still had to go half way to the sun to get there! All the way up I kept telling myself "it better not be closed when I get up there or cost an arm and a leg to get in". Yes, it was open (can't really close it off ...

POLSKI: Umowilismy sie z naszymi Francuzami, ze razem z nimi pojedziemy do Mostaru w Bosni i Herzegovinie, a nastepnie do Sarajewa. Ruszylismy o 9:30, a pol godziny pozniej przekroczylismy granice Bosni. Jechalismy nieco na okolo, ale dzieki temu nie musielismy przebijac sie i czekac na dwoch przejsciach granicznych - Bosnia wrzyna sie w wybrzeze Chorwacji malym paskiem, przez co sa dwie granice niemal obok siebie. Zatrzymalismy sie na obiad w jakims miasteczku po drodze. Najedlismy ...

... waterfalls tunneling down steps, via ponds full of lily pads, and via yellow, green, seaweedy land that was porous and leaked showers above caves. Hiking, I saw one lake way above the others, in dense wilderness, and that one looked the most beautiful. Continuing onwards, I traveled southeast through turquoise-tinted Croatia. The small road kept going slowly up mountain passes, then coming down, giving broad vistas of flat land stretching past snow-blocking ...

... there, it seemed to be some sort of presidential visit, as Bosnia has 3 of them, and there was a ceremonial meeting on the bridge. Then 3 dudes jumped the 20 meters (60 feet folks) into the freezing water. Then we continued on our way back to Belgrade. (C) The presidential visit was pretty cool. Not sure which presidents it was though. It's funny that we ...