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Adema Buca 100 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Mostar and the troubled journey to recovery
... defended it together. Then Croatian armies tried to do the same from the west. In the defence of their city, Bosnians, Serbs and Croats all fought and died together to protect the multicultural Mostar from external claims to exclusive ownership.
It was clear from this first brief conversation that hurt had been ingrained in the fabric of Mostar since the war. As much as Miran asked us about our travels, an underlying vulnerability could be felt in his passion and sadness for ...
Destroyed in 1993
... site. All through out the city you can see buildings that were destroyed during the war with thousands of bullet holes scattered all over the sides of apartments, houses and stores. Mostar is struggling economically but the people still seemed very happy and are slowly recovering from the war. I think they will leave a lot of the damaged structures the way they are just so the war won't be ...
Bosnia/Hercegovnia...... beauty and sadness
Even though we had to leave before breakfast today Renata had so kindly organised our breakfast and put it in the fridge last night. We left at 7am to walk the 40 minutes around the harbour with our bags. It was a 3 1/2 hour trip to Mostar and we had to cross the border 3 times to show our passports. Pretty quick process of just showing our passport as they walked through the bus.
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Moving on to Mostar
... country called Bosnia-Herzegovina, it really feels like I'm on the edge of Europe in a sense. It's interesting to note the presence of mosques alongside churches, and the genuine friendliness of the people when they greet you on the streets...
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The tourist side of Bosnia
... hostel, and he loaded all our bags into his disco van and took us
to where we were staying. The man was certainly upbeat, though I expected this
as the hostel had won awards and had a 95% rating on hostel world. We passed
through the town and saw plenty of shelled buildings with just the walls
remaining. Many of them had trees growing out of the windows, all of them were
completely devastated. Mostar much like Sarajevo was a key town in the ...


