SmaviesAdventures

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...

Beautiful Bosnia I didn't really know what to expect when we were going to Bosnia. We'd made our way up the coast from Split before cutting across the Bosnian border. The journey there was beautiful winding our way along the blue sea past lots of little villages and farms. On the way to Mostar there were two border crossings (one from Croatia and one from Bosnia). The whole journey was rather long, mostly taken up by the border crossings. Upon arriving in Mostar we were even more unsure of what to expect as we felt very uneasy on our arrival, there were a few beggars around the bus station, the main road that we had to follow was being dug up in it's entirety, and several of the buildings were riddled with bullet holes. We were slightly convinced we'd come to the wrong place. However whilst walking down the broken road we saw many glimpses of the Old Town that had undergone much restoration in the early 2000s. Large photo to show the divide Context To pro...