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Surprising Kosovo

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Kosovo It's funny travelling around this area that there are many places where there is a somewhat negative stigma. Due to recent wars throughout the region (Kosovo's is slightly more recent that Bosnia's I believe) It is easy to presume that the area you are going to is going to feel unsafe or look like a warzone. We already had these pre-conceptions challenged when we went to Bosnia . But Kosovo was always going to be a different story, as I said their war is more recent, but they are also still in conflict with Serbia (Issues around the legitimacy of their sovereignty). Pec, Peje, Peja We left Podgorica to arrive in Kosovo and drove through beautiful gorges with clear blue water, steep grey cliffs and luscious green pine forests. Our route took us high up into the mountains dividing Kosovo from Montenegro. Once passing the Montenegrin border we drove for a long time through no man's land before arriving at Kosovo's border. Upon passing it and receivin...