Hotel Mogorjelo Capljina

... knowledgable, and fun person I have met. He doesn't drink since he's a muslim, but he has the energy to put us all to shame. I want whatever he's on. When we got back to the hostel we actually made a tribute book with Bata's greatest quotes that suddenly had become part of our vocabulary, unintentionally. What was interesting about the end of the evening was that when we got back at midnight, 4 of us were planning on going out for a night on the town. Majda, the owner of ...

... Siege (which was for freedom from the Serbs). People here in Mostar were either Croat Serbs, or Muslim Serbs, and after many many years of peaceful coexistence, and with the civil war and breaking up all over the former Yugoslavia, these guys here one day decided to really **** their **** up between the two ethnicities. And there was an all out war. It was 15 years ago, but it can be seen everywhere. Mostar hasn't been fortunate enough to have enough resources and ...

... the Muslims and Croatians fought alongside each other, defeated (and expelled) the Serbs; and then the event took an even more ugly turn: the Croatians and Muslims became bitter enemies, a vicious battle was fought, and the bridge, the symbol of the city's harmonous racial relationship (the Croats and the Muslims lived in the different side of the river), was purposely destroyed, the TV cameras captured the moment that it was hit by several Croat shells and ...

... and she has kept that homely feeling in its current hostel form - even if it is a bit strange to find a hostel on the first floor of a soviet-era housing block. Unfortunately the only double room was booked for the days we were there, so Majda shipped us off to the hostel annex which turned out to be a whole apartment we had to ourselves right by the river not far from Stari Most (the old bridge).  A ...

... The city is still really torn up, especially on the Croatia side. There are bullet holes in the walls and streets, bombed out buildings, and broken glass everywhere. We climbed around in a bank turned sniper's nest and it was one of the creepiest places I've ever felt. <br><br>Most men in this area who are between 30 - 40 had to flee the area during the war, so there is a lot of them who speak German, English, or anything else from where they were. From this, there ...

... one day he had friends that were from Croatia and Serbia and then the next day they had just disappered and he has never seen them again as they were told to move out of the area so the Bosnian muslisms could be delt with. He was telling me the story that to get out of the country a local Croatian who was there freind smuggled them in the ambulance and they all had to lie under the beds so as to not be discovered. From this old communist campsite we went to this old village set ...

... here, we were only able to get the most basic of understandings. At one point, there was a decision made to biforcate the city into separate christian and muslim sections. Most of the christians were Croats and there was a strong presence of the Croat army. During this splitting of the city the exact location of the split, or the Front Line, was changed a few times. Each time this resulted in mass evacuations and then mass destruction of what must have ...

... something similar to a dorm so I could meet other travellers. I didnt want to stay in some family's home and not meet any other travellers. Lucky for me, Mama Kiki converted one of her rooms into a dormitory. She said the place was never empty and that I would meet other people easily. At a price of 10 Euros per night, I couldnt say no. I was glad to pay this much after spending 20-35 Euros a night for accomodations in Croatia. The place proved to be a bit of ...

... ja alkaa kuka ties kuinka kaukana vuoren sisassa ja paikka henkii rauhallisuutta. Kierroksen lopuksi paastiin nauttimaan bosnialaista kahvia, bosnialaiseen tapaan Vahan kikkailuahan se on, mutta todella hyvaa tavaraa myos. Kaikenkaikkiaan hyva reissu ja Batalta irtosi paljon mielenkiintoista tietoa Bosnia-Hertzegovinan historiasta ja nykytilanteesta. Bosnialaisen nakokanta tietenkin. Huomenna voisi sitten vihdoin nahda vahan sita Mostariakin.

... for tourist dollars: 50 Euros for a jump, 300 for a dive. But digressing for a minute back to the history of Bosnia-Herzegovina's war. Bosnia-Herzegovina is populated by three peoples, the Catholic Croats, the Muslim Bosnians, and the Orthodox Serbs. As the country tried to break away from the former Yugoslavia, a move supported by the Croats and Bosnians, the Serbs attacked the other two ethnic groups, who formed a military alliance and eventually managed to mostly fend ...