Omega Ambasador Hotel Sarajevo

... city, I dumped my pack and went in search of some cheap eats and I was directed to a couple of turkish fast food places, though everyone (local) eats there and I discovered Cevapcini - beef mince thats been rolled into sausage shaped pieces and grilled over an open flame and served with a fresh doughy type bread (thats been rubbed across the meat and grill for a smokey beef flavour.). All that ...

... it if anyone visits this city. First off, Sarajevo is surrounded by mountains on all four sides and there is one narrow pass where the airport is located. When Serbia started attacking, this pass was all that separated Sarajevo and its 700,000 people from the free part of Bosnia on the other side of the mountains. The Serbian Army shelled the city 24 hours a day for three years straight and blocked the pass.<br><br>The UN took control of the ...

... lives in every direction. The second half of the movie showed them building the tunnel and then using it to take through food, weapons, refugees and the injured. There was a lady they showed in the video who seemed to be quite well known during the war at would constantly stand at one end of the tunnel with a big container of water which she would distribute a glass of to every one the came out of the tunnel.<br><br>On the next part of the tour we headed up high into the mountains ...

... we went home, drank beer with his friend, went to bed and woke up at 0300 to watch the NBA championship game - the one that Lakers won and got the title. Basketball is very popular here.<br><br>The next day, we hiked up to the surrounding hills that the Serbian army occupied in the war, armed with cannons, and saw what their gunners saw: the whole Muslim section of the city. No wonder they could kill so many. The same hilltop has a now-neglected WWII ...

... over 10 years ago. Haris then took us to a 15th century Bosnian home. The city keeps a house as a museum for visitors to understand what people lived like way back when. It was a nice diversion from all the sadness we had seen up until this part of the tour. We wandered around the old and central part of town with Haris before ending the tour. We had a few hours before our bus. So, some of us watched "Welcome to Sarajevo." This is by no means a great movie, but it did help the ...

... were both in need of a break from cevap so I got what was translated to Bosnian Crock which turned out to be a stew in a big crockery pot and leah got stuffed peppers, both of which were fantastic. During the day Haris had called majda in Mostar to let her know what time we would be getting in and to ask if the much talked about tour would be running on the 14th or if we needed to catch the 0645 train to get there early for the tour on the 13th. Verdict was come early.

The boarder crossing to BiH took around two hours due to the guy who sells the van insurance had to drive from Foca, the nearest town while we waited in no mans land in the scroching midday heat. When the guy finally arrived we discovered he wanted 60 euros for the insurance instead of the official 30 euro insurance but without having much choice we paid it. I complained and said Its disgusting! to the border officials and the insurance guy with which one of them replied 30 ...

... some delicious Bosnian sweets (marzipa, coconut, fig) as gifts from a local store. taxi back to the airport used the meter - and hey, it was 20KM - E10 after all. Do wicenja Sarajevo. time for one last sight - the single roomed museum opposite Latinska Bridge focussing on the period of the ...

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... he jabbed a finger at us and said "Passport". Placing them both in a drawer (note the deliberate ommission of the word securely, he lead us outside across the courtyard to a dark building. Now chattering away like his life depended upon it, (only in French) he showed us the facilities, gave us a key, forgot to tell us how to switch the heating on and left. We slept safe and sound. Sarajevo has had a grim 15 years and it is only now really starting to recover. The 3 ...