Bosnia & Herzegovina

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Hearing it from the locals

I took the 0900 bus back to Sarajevo which got me in at 1130. I had a brief rest before starting my tour from the Tourist Information Centre to the Tunnel of Life. As Sarajevo was largely surrounded by the Serb forces, then tunnel under the airport runway allowed food and supplies to be brought […]

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Sniper tower

I had planned to make an excursion today to a nice town called Blagaj or the waterfalls at Kravice. I couldn’t decide and neither could the others that I had invited. It started raining around 0900; it came down in big globules like in the tropics. There were several breaks which were nearly sufficient for […]

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Mostar revisited

I went to Mostar 11 years ago when the old stone bridge destroyed during the war hadn’t been rebuilt yet. There was a wooden one in its place. I wanted to seem how things have progressed and whether the rift between the Muslim and Croat side had healed. The bus left Sarajevo at 1130 and […]

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Jerusalem of Europe

Today I do begin a side-trip to Bosnia & Herzegovina.  I had went to Herzegovina in 2002 and other parts of the Balkans during several other trips.  It is a rather expensive place to get to from Europe by flight due to limited options.  But from Istanbul, I managed to prebook great fares on Pegasus […]

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