Via Mostar to Korcula

Mostar is a nice place to stay for a day or to, we prefered a day. During this time we saw the old town which had a pitoresque bridge. The old town was many centuries old, it has also a Mosk that belonged to the Turkish Pasha and we also got the chance to climb up the minaret. The stairs were narrow but the sight was very pretty.

This morning we departured to Korcula, Croatia. The train took us near Plocé port. We had to take ferry to Trapanji, taxi to Orebic and finaly a small boat to Korcula. Here are alot of tourists, you can see it from the plates of the cars, germans, italians, polish... etc. We didnt have any accomondation booked so we counted on some offers at our arrival to Korcula. We found a private room nearby (20 min walk) for about 25euros/night, half the price of a hostel. We decided to stay two nights, this is as much as our schedule can do.

Up on the Minaret (Mostar).

Inside the Mosk.

... the same Mosk from the bridge.

The famous Stari Most bridge during night.

A beautiful old building that had been destroyed by bombs during the latest war.

We later heard that Mostar is acctually divided into two halves, one croatian and one Bosnian muslim part. By our understanding these two don´t get along so good when there is local football matches between these two parts of city...

Our view from the balcony of our room in Korcula.

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Discovering Sarajevo

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Now we have discovered and walked around Sarajevo. From the previous post we taught that it is more affordable go through the sights by ourselves, but realized that the hostel offer was quite good (guide, transportation and entry fee's etc.). So we will do the "Sarajevo in a nutshell tomorrow" :) (BTW, the hostel is "Hostel City Center Sarajevo (HCC Sarajevo)", and we realy like it)

Some discoveries from Sarajevo:

Walter is examining some old war stuff. They also had some home made weapons e.g. shotguns...

The "Latin Bridge" over the river. It was here Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated and which escalated to the beginning of World War I.

Interesting sticker on an add.

These are some memories from the bombing of Sarajevo. You could also see a lot of holes in the buildings around Sarajevo.

This is the statue for all the Children that have died during the war.

As you can see the circular plate is filled with children's foot steps.

City by night with a big rocket :) (The muslim area of town).

There was a weird statue in the stairway to our hostel...

We also bought train tickets to Mostar (about 5e/person) and we are going there on Saturday morning at seven. We will only stay there for a day and continue to the Croatian coast in the evening.

Travel tip: A good bus/boat timetable site, http://www.autobusni-kolodvor.com/en/default.aspx

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