Andrea Hearts Traveling: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo was so unexpected!

I had this idea of Sarajevo being a very ugly city and not very interesting. I have no clue where this idea came from but I was 100% wrong about it! Sarajevo had so much character and was beautiful!

While walking the city I noticed that it had either been rebuilt after war or was not impacted as much as Mostar since there were not that many buildings with bullet holes around the areas where I walked.

I decided to go on a walking tour of the city and it was very good. Our guide was a kid during the time of war so she shared with us lots of her stories about living as a kid through the war and what that was like.

My next country in the Balkans is Bosnia and Herzegovina!!!

I was actually really excited about visiting this country and I knew just a little bit of its history from blog posts that I had read. As I was riding the bus and approaching the city of Mostar I started noticing cemeteries, tons of destroyed buildings and many of them still standing but with bullet holes all around.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, former part of Yugoslavia, had a cold war not too long ago and has been independent only for 25 years. The cold war was basically Serbia and Croatia fighting to make the Bosnian territory theirs.

As you walk around town you feel kind of weird because you can still see the effects of the war on the town, they haven’t reconstructed everything and in a way it shocks you to see it. Many of the houses have their original gates with bullet holes in them.

Sarajevo!

Bosnia and Herzegovina!

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