Hotel Mogorjelo Capljina
Queen Catharine Street Capljina, 88300, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Mostar and the troubled journey to recovery
... and I loved it. After the next tourist season I will go back.”
“Will you return here?”
“No. My brother is a patriot and has children and a good business – he will stay in Mostar forever. But I am not patriotic. I have to get out of this place.”
His face was a complex mix of feelings: sorrow about this decision to leave his home, desperation to be rid of the dismal job market and corruption that characterised the area, ...
Mo-re of Mostar
... there will be a test later, so I hope you are remembering all these things). The mosque itself is nice (as they tend to be) and we climbed the minaret (89 steps) which has a very small diameter and the climb up made me sort of dizzy! The view of Stari Most (that bridge I told you about yesterday) was fantastic, and I probably took too many pictures that will all look the same once I get home. After leaving the mosque, we ...
Swimming in Waterfalls
... live... or something. My guide book says that it is the location of a Dervish Monastery, so I suppose that was the thing that I took a picture of. The main thing we say was the place where the river comes out of the side of the mountain. It is clear and clean spring water and it comes out of a cave on the side of this mountain, it is all quite beautiful (I tasted the water, it was... watery?). On the way back to the ...
La poudrière
Le passage entre la Croatie et la Bosnie marquait une étape importante dans l'itinéraire du voyage. Premièrement, on tombait deux alors que j'avais toujours été à trois ou quatre depuis le début du voyage. Deuxièmement, on laissait derrière nous l'auto pour se tourner vers les autobus et les trains pour nos déplacements. Finalement, le point le plus frappant, on s'apprêtait à laisser le soleil et la mer pour aller affronter les ravages de la guerre dans ...
Heading inland to Mostar
Arriving in Mostar was like a breath of fresh air, and one that we felt we needed. We immediately liked Mostar. It is apparently the biggest tourist destination in the whole region after Dubrovnik, but thankfully it is one of the few places we have been so far that didn't feel overrun with tourists. I can see why people come to visit though – the recent war is still very visible in the devastated buildings and feels so recent and ...


