Hotel Hum Ljubuski

... room that still had the original ceiling from back in the day, I didn't want to leave the newfound peace I had just started experiencing. It made for a super photo-op, and I did the best I could, while constantly cursing myself for forgetting my tripod.<br><br>The trip back was a blur, owing to all the tiredness from 13 ****ing hours of being on our feet , on what I can only describe as the best tour I have taken thus far in my life. The tour guide (Bata) was the most ...

... Dhruv left his heart (and headphones) in Sarajevo." but refrained. I'm still cool.<br><br>When I got in to Sarajevo, my hostel owner picked me up from the bus station, and the ride back was filled with every conceivable unexpectedness I was expecting. Mostar is a small town, if I thought Sarajevo was small, this was a village effectively, maybe 1/5th or even 1/10th the size of Sarajevo. This place was at war too around the same time, but nothing remotely related to the ...

... area around it were populated by Muslim and Croatians, with a smaller number of Serb, all of them citizen of BiH (short for Bosnia and Herzegovina). They lived side-by-side for hundreds of year, became friends, intermarried, peaceful. In the city and each of the villages around it, temples of all three faiths were found. Then when the war was started in 92, the Serb wanted to expell the others so the place could be part of a "greater Serbia" that they dreamed ...

<br>Bosnia i Hercegovina was a revelation for us; only associating it with news reports of the war, we discovered an amazing landscape full of interesting and friendly people and some great food to boot.  <br><br>We were recommended Majdas Hostel and its associated tour by lots of people we met at the Hippo in Montenegro.  The hostel turned out to be exceedingly charming; it used to be Majda's old family ...

... run the hostel. They were warm and welcoming, insisting we have tea and sit down before allowing anything else. It was in a beautiful area, all residential, on the Croatian side of the city. Basically, during the war, the Croatians tried to push the Croatia/Serbia border to the Neretva river, basically eliminating Bosnia all together. They didn't succeed, but one side of the river is still largely Croatian owned and operated, although it is technically Bosnia. <br ...

... we all knew it was going to be a long day for everyone. We started off by going to this old campsite that use to be used by locals in the communist times for us to get an understanding of the history of the country. Through the tour the guide was telling us loads of intersting things, much of it I am sure is biast towards Bosnia but he was saying how he was a refugee living in Sweden for 15 years because of the war and at the time when it started he was 21 and it was weird ...

... dozens of bombed out buildings everywhere. As you neared the center of town it became even more pronounced and seemingly over half the buildings, in fact anything that had not been renovated, suffered some sort of damage - some just had a lot of bullet holes, but too many were completely wrecks consisting of nothing but shells of ancient walls. Exactly what happened here was hard to comprehend and would probably depend on who you talked to. In our one ...

... owners died during the war. Not a good thought. I had no idea where I was going to stay in Mostar. I didnt have a guidebook on B&amp;H. I was going to wing the next 4-5 days. I didnt even know what the currency was and what its rate was against the Cdn dollar or the Euro. I was ill prepared for B&amp;H. When I arrived at the bus station in Mostar, an old lady who called herself Mama Kiki greeted me and asked if I was looking for accomodation. I said I was but I ...

... kestamaan. Aamulla lahdettiin matkaan vanhahkolla pakettiautolla, oranssilla paholaisella. Ensin kaytiin katsomassa vanhaa linnoitusta ja sen ymparille kehittynytta, sodan jalkeen melkolailla autioitunutta kylaa, sitten pulikoimassa vesiputouksilla, vahan kiertoajelua siella sun taalla ja neljan aikoihin syomaan erittain kauniiseen paikkaan jossain Mostarin lahistolla. Joki, jonka varrella aiemmin mainitut vesiputoukset ovat, tulee ...

... dynamited the bridge in the Bosnian part of town, a symbol of the severed connection between the city's ethnicities. After the war, the bridge was rebuilt using 16th century construction techniques and stone from the original quarry. Today, much as before the war, the Icaruses of Mostar have returned, young men who plunge 21 m off the bridge into the river below each summer. However, whereas they did such feats as a show of masculinity before the war, today they do ...