Sarajevo and Belgrade

We started our day (29.08.) with breakfast at our hotel and then walked through Sarajevo's center. The market place was filled with people. Sarajevo truly lives up multi-cultural life style. It is inspiring to be around here. We then enjoyed coffee and Arabian cake in a cafè which was filled with young people. Everyone appears lively and cheerful. When walking around the city we still saw some demolitions back from the war. The minarets overlooking Sarajevo complete the city's flair. We also visited the famous latin stone bridge where prince Ferdinand was shot - final reason to start the first world war.
From Sarajevo we drove all the way to Belgrade, along the Drive river with its stunning landscapes. We crossed it in Visegrad and subsequently crossed the border towards Serbia. The friendliest border patrols we had on all our trip :) All the mountains around Balkan result in awesome landscape. The road towards Serbia was similar. After sunset we finally arrived in Belgrade and found an awesome hostel (Parliament). Later in the city center, Vapiano was the only open restaurant which still served food after midnight :( We then checked out the floating clubs at Sanau river from where you have a great view at Belgrade. But all the clubs are with reservation only - so is most of Belgrade's nightlife as we will learn :o
The next day we walked through the city. Breakfast near the food market and then towards the castle. The castle's park is great and makes for some beer at early afternoon before we saw Serbia's military remnants at the castle entrance. The castle is right at the city's edge where Sanau meets Danube (Donau). Nice view over the river valleys. Bought some postcards and wrote them in a cafè in the center. After some chill out time at our apartment and some dinner we tried our luck again in Belgrade's famous nightlife. This time we were more lucky in Soho Republic club... it needs reservation but Ben's smile was sufficient to get us in. Rather an after business club... music was nice, but nothing special. After seeing this and the floating river clubs the day earlier we are disappointed by Belgrade's nightlife. Well, at least it had the most beautiful women walking through town :D

Sarajevo's main square

the latin bridge - place of the assassination of prince Ferdinand - start of World War I

remnants of the war

bridge at Visegrad over Driver

sunset in Serbia - serpentines again^^

macabre ads in Belgrade

remnants of Serbia's military affection

overviewing Sanau joining Danube from Belgrade's castle

Dubrovnik and Herzegovina

In the morning after our "fun" at the border, we visited Dubrovnik. The fortified medieval town with its narrow streets is simply gorgeous. Quite touristic and overpriced... but still enjoyable. You can spend all day slandering through the small ways. And a good breakfast before we continued towards Bosnia and Herzogovina.
We entered Herzegovina and enjoyed views on the great landscape from the empty roads. We made our way to the waterfalls for Kravice, which seem to be a great place for wealthy families to escape the summer heat. Some climbing and an ice cream later we drove towards Mostar. There we wandered through town to see the Unesco heritage site of the famous Mostar bridge. The flair was made perfect by the setting sun. We didnt even mind all the souvenir shops around and visited a photo gallery before having dinner at the river. The river front is amazing as the riverbed is left nearly unspoiled. At night we drove to Sarajevo and found a hotel after some tries^^ Ben and I went to see the bar scene in Sarajevo... but somehow most was close... we still were able to get some cold beers in one Erasmus/student place :) The following day we explored Sarajevo.

view over Dubrovnik

slandering through Dubrovniks old city

view over Dubrovnik's roofs

the road through Herzegovina

Kravice waterfall

famous Mostar bridge

don't forget about history