Erasmus Road Trip: destination Sarajevo and Mostar

Small village in somewhere in BiH

Hello folks !!

Some of you have been waiting for this post about the trip to the Bosnia i Herzegovina and Serbia, so here it is.

This wasn't a very well planned trip, we suddenly decided that we wanted to go to Serbia and Bosnia and we asked ourslef why not just rent a car and go in 2 days.

So, on Friday 4th of Feb ,we (Milo, Mery, Alfonso, Carlos & Tony) departed from Ljubljana (Slovenia) to Sarajevo (BiH) via Zagreb(Croatia), I think the journey lasted for 6-7 hours or so, coz the roads weren't very good, specially when u get to BiH...

Enjoy Hostel in Sarajevo, BiH

But we did a couple of stops to rest, and we passed by this small village lost somewhere in BiH, isn't it beautiful?  By 6pm we arrived in Sarajevo, so we parked on the street and went to find the hostel, which was just ok, the owner of the hostel was called Jasmine, and treated us really well, like a mother, but at the end she was such kind that end up a little bit annoying, but we cope with it well coz we only stayed only for 2 night over there.

City Pub, Sarajevo, BiH

About Sarajevo, the capital of BiH, what can I say, is not really much to see, many building were detroyed, and stayed there until now, hence there weren't many monuments either, and mixed up with a lot of moderns places and shopping malls, so the environment was quite strange, but exciting and different from what I am used to. But I must say, the best thing about the city, is of course the Bosnians, the people are so nice, kind, joyful and all the adjectives that that exists to describe Bosnians, really, they are amazing, and most of them speak very good English, which it really helped a lot to a bunch of Spanish god who knows what where they thinking to decide to go to Sarajajevo. On the other hand, I cannot say the same for Serbians, which I will explain later on.

The picture you see on the left side was taken on City Pub in Sarajevo, 'our Bosnian mom' recomended us the place, and on our way to find the pub, we asked two Bosnian girls for directions, and they took us over there and end up with us drinking and partying, really fun night I must say.

 About Bosnia, we did some tourism around the capital , and we also visited Mostar (Мостар, a 15th century town in Herzegovina region), a place much more beautiful than Sarajevo), Judge urself, amazing town, isn't it?

We spend the whole morning over there, eat some Ćevapi, a traditional Yugoslavian dish, very tasty, it consist of small portions of meat, grilled with spicies, a little bit salty for my own taste, but maybe it was on that restaurant, or beacuse I am simply too picky... but very good, I strongly recommend it to anyone who travel to the region.

On our way back to Sarajevo, we rested on the hostel for a little while, and during the night we went to have partying a little bit, which I explained before.

Next day (Sunday 6th), we packed our stuff again to go to Beograd, the capital of Serbia, which I will talk about it on the next post.

Before I finish, I will tell you the last thing we did in Bosnia, this is visitting the Tunnel of Hope, the only passage to the free Bosnian territory. I won't bored you with the history of the tunnel, that's why I posted a link, but I must say it is very impressive, how the desire of freedom made this tunnel.

After seeing the historical place, we started our trip to Beograd, I won't say anything about the city yet, but I will only tell you that we spent 10 hours from Sarajevo to Beograd for a 500 km distance trip...

Hope you enjoyed with my own vision and experience of the city. Beoagrad post will be written soon!!

1 abrazo enorme a todos!