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Hostel Miturno Mostar

Brace Fejica 67 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Mostar and the troubled journey to recovery

A travel blog entry by rootsandroutes

... of a hill to the west, a huge white stone cross sits where mortars were once positioned, still surrounded by hundreds of undiscovered mines. The hill’s dark shadow is cast across the city in the late afternoon sun like a spectre of the past, lingering in the minds of Mostar’s people.

The last destination on our walk with Miran’s brother is a park just off the main shopping street on the east side of town. For most of our time together, he spoke generally ...

I am Muslim, don't Panic!

A travel blog entry by hildreth75

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... the evening in a local bar, and Ben casually hinted about a feeling he had been noticing. See, this place is the most recent sufferer of genocide any of us have yet traveled to, and the effects of the war are constantly in your face. Buildings are still riddled with bullet holes, or bombed out entirely. People walk with averted gazes. And shops are thrilled and thankful for any business. But none ...

Most Pleasant

A travel blog entry by nick_collins8

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... shells, rig them up and throw them back across the river. The Croatians targetted the Old Bridge, which was the only connection between the two sides of the cty left standing and destroyed it, for no real apparent reason other than to break the will of the fighters in Mostar. Apparently they also used Bosnian POWs to build their fortifications, often as close as 12-15 feet from the Bosnian lines, but the Bosnians were under orders to shoot them and had to ...

Bosnia/Hercegovnia...... beauty and sadness

A travel blog entry by hilaryramsey

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... down in their homes, and had 20 people living in 1 room and only left once a day to get soup rations and water. Their windows were all covered up and on the roof balcony which has a trellis of grapes vines providing shade , they could only go up to pick the grapes at night because of snipers. There was footage of people being hit by snipers and shells as they came out of their homes to try and ...

Broken Bridges

A travel blog entry by tennis_tom

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... a different story. We were really shocked when we saw the amount of bombed out buildings. In between perfectly normal looking buildings there would be a shell of a former house, sometimes with a full façade and crumbling interior. The would often have large trees growing out of the rubble and would be very solemn and humbling.

We headed out to dinner that night with some people from the hostel – some aussies and some Canadians. We had a ...