Hotel Aqua Sarajevo

... not as (aesthetically) dramatic as I thought they would be, but I guess they have faded with time, but still a strong reminded of the force the city came under....<br> <br><br>I left here after three days of just wandering and people watching, though I felt I could have stayed for longer and there were parts still yet to be discovered, this has to be one the absolute highlights of my trip!! <br><br>

... for a drink or two. We wandered around a bit and ended up at a place that seemed to have a few people in it called City Bar. Stopped there for a beer then decided it was probably too early for any kind of nightlife to really be happening. As we had to be up just after 5am to get our train to Budapest, we decided to head home. We drifted off to sleep with the sounds of some local Bosnian boys somewhere nearby singing drunkenly at the top of their lungs to songs we couldn't understand....

... of the procession leading up to the assassination, clothes the killer was wearing, the bullet, and gun!<br><br>We decided to extend our stay in Sarajevo instead of trying to make it to Zagreb in a rush. We enjoyed walking along the shop-lined streets. Very Turkish influenced - lots of rug shops, coffee and tea sets, tobacco pipes, and so much jewelery! Really gorgeous gold and silver rings, earrings, and necklace designs.

... with blond hair and blue eyes. Also not matching up with the City's heavily Moslem demographic are the tremendous number of nice or funky bars which are accompanied by hundreds of kebab shops. As for the Bosnian people, they are quite lovely from what little we saw. They are known for being some of the friendliest in Europe and pride themselves on their Arab oriented hospitality. While all of them have their own personal horror story f rom the ...

... left to Brcko when he came to visit the festival at the last day. Because of his appearance they had a screening of 'The Usual Suspects'. Yes, the great film from 1995. The strange thing is they put this in the 'audience award competition'. And to no surprise, it won. lol. Ok, i know the movie is very good. But a 1995 movie in a competition of a 2008 festival? Other movies from 2008/2007 need to have a chance to win this award, not a 1995 movie which already proofed ...

... 1992-1995. I arrived in Sarajevo at 6:30 in the morning. Luckily my compartment emptied out around midnight, so I shut the door, pulled the curtains closed, used my backpack as a pillow, stretched out and went to sleep. I met Ramon, a Spanish guy who was staying at the same hostel outside the train station and we headed into town. Since we couldn't check in until later we decided to go on a tour of the Sarajevo ...

Hi Well, this will be a bit of a abbreviated entry (and partially plagarised from Julia!) as just lost a big long one as the internet crashed. Trio to Auschwitz was very sobering and sad of course. It was also freezing which really brought home the horro of it all. The salt mines in the afternoon were a bit of a change of pace, and were amazing. We walked down steps equivalent to 60 stories to see carving of all sorts of things and even several chapels made entirely out of ...

... shots that began communism (without world war 1 the russian revolution may never have happened- we'll never know) and the shots in the last battle in its collapse (the break up of yugoslavia) were fired in and around the city. I did notice only the big cities had railway stations- the train also just stopped in the iddle of nowhere to let school kids on and stuff. The people were exceptionally friendly (although they chain smoke like no ...

... mezquitas, las sinagogas y otros templos iluminados. Llegamos a Sarajevo a las 23'00, con un hotel reservado pero ni idea de como encontrarlo. Un taxista nos llevo al que creiamos que era pero no, es que tenian el mismo nombre. Despues de andar y andar y sin querer renunciar pues perderiamos nuestro dinero preguntamos a la poca gente que vimos. Todos tan amables! Lo encontramos al final, ya mas de medianoche. En la puerta decia ...

... most real and captivating place I have visited on this trip thus far.<br><br>Woke up at 5 a.m. in Elma and Zolin's flat in Sarajevo, to look out towards a faint panorama of huge, crumbling, identical, communist-era high rises; something spooky and unsettling about the city at dawn, though also beautiful. Here in the outskirts the streets are imposingly wide and take on a sort of silvery grey sheen that ...