Blagaj, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Everyone goes to Herzegovina to see the famous Old Bridge in Mostar. But once you’re there, you should visit a little village about 15km far from Mostar.  More, that’s the best destination for a weekend if you’re thinking of feeling nature and making you far from noise of the city!

Blagaj is the most famous of historical Dervish Monastery situated at the spring of the Buna river. It’s built around 1520 and it’s considered as a national monument. 

Around Tekija there are lots of little restaurants. Surly you should try trout. It’s the best fish I’ve ever tasted !

There is also Old Fort on the hill above to Blagaj. Bosnian queen Katarina Kosača-Kotromanić was born there.  You just need to make about 30 minutes walk to climb on the top. View of the village is amazing !

  

Autumn

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower

Albert Camus 

 

Tunnel of hope, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

There are some moments which we should never forget. There is a history which we should remember and in the same time, never let war happen again….

The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina took place between 1 March 1992 and 14 December 1995 and it was as a result of the breakup of Yugoslavia. On the beginning people thought that it’ll take only few days like it was in Slovenia… Conflict was much more longer, complicated and took too many lives….

If you have ever been in Sarajevo, you know that the city is situated in the valley and surrounded by mountains. The Serbs were already there two years before the war started.

The second half of 1992 and the first half of 1993 were the height of the siege of Sarajevo. It’s the time when no humanitarian help could enter to the city and Serbs controlled most of the major military positions.  People created a tunnel of hope. It helped supplies and weaponry reach the city's defenders, and enabled some inhabitants to leave. It’s said that tunnel saved Sarajevo.

According to the “Final report of the United Nations Commission of Experts established pursuant to security council resolution 780”, during the siege, 11,541 people lost their lives, including over 1,500 children. An additional 56,000 people were wounded, including nearly 15,000 children.

Počitelj, Bosnia and Herzegovina

It’s impossible to miss this XV century village in Neretva Valley, reconstructed in 2004, listed as a UNESCO heritage. 

This amazing stone village with medieval fortress was built upon the order of the Bosnian King as a protection against Ottomans invasion.