"Mostar pilgimage" Mostar by TheWanderingCamel

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Mostar morning light

Mostar wasn't on our agenda at all when we visited Croatia in 2006, but a chance remark as we were arranging our car rental in Dubrovnik had us consulting the map and suddenly a side-trip into Bosnia and Hercegovina was a detour on the road to Split. Our only object then was to see the famous bridge that gave the city its name.

Along with so many others we had watched the bitter fighting that tore the country we knew as Yugoslavia apart, willing the bridge that had stood as a symbol of co-existence to defy the odds stacked against it and to survive the destruction that was being wrought on both the people and the fabric of the Balkans by armies made up of those who had so recently been fellow-citizens. How sad we felt when it fell in 1993, and how gladdened by its restoration. Now we had the chance to see it for ourselves.

And so it was that we set off along the road to Mostar, to make a brief pilgrimage to a place that symbolized so much of those terrible years and of the hope for the future of the region.

The bridge was all we thought it would be ... beautiful and moving. Of Mostar itself we had no preconceived ideas - but we were so charmed by what we found that we resolved to return, this time to stay long enough to explore the town further, to absorb some of its evening atmosphere, to wake to its early morning sounds. The night we spent there this year has only whetted our appetite for more ... we're definitely going back....

leyle

  • Last visit to Mostar: Aug 2007
  • Intro Updated Jul 26, 2011
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  • zadunajska8's Profile Photo
    Jan 20, 2012 at 11:34 PM

    Looks like a great place. I'd love to go!

  • Maryimelda's Profile Photo
    Jul 6, 2010 at 11:36 PM

    I can't believe, I've never seen your Mostar page, leyle. I just can't wait to get there in 2011. I'll be keeping your tips close at hand. Thanks for your diligence in putting such a well informed page together.

  • globetrott's Profile Photo
    Oct 25, 2009 at 3:39 AM

    an excellent page with great pics, thanks for sharing Leyle !That bridge stands again as a symbol of a new beginning, and that is really good to know !

  • Nemorino's Profile Photo
    Feb 26, 2009 at 1:41 AM

    Your brilliant photos and insightful tips & travelogue bring back memories of my own visit to Mostar in 1969. A Czech uncle of mine was stationed in Mostar with the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1909, until he caught malaria and got sent home.

  • starship's Profile Photo
    Feb 24, 2009 at 3:57 PM

    You've done a fabulous job of capturing the beauty of Mostar! Wonderful photos, and descriptive information really invite a visit to this picturesque town! Sylvia

  • Kuznetsov_Sergey's Profile Photo
    Dec 21, 2008 at 7:18 AM

    Thank you Leyle for showing us a place with so many Slavic names. I would find a river with the name Neretva and a village with the name Makarska somewhere here in Russia... Bridges are wonderful, pity they were destroyed.

  • tiabunna's Profile Photo
    Dec 11, 2008 at 4:00 AM

    I hadn't realised what a beautiful and interesting place the Mostar area is - quite apart from the famous bridge! No wonder you keep returning, pls just keep adding and updating pages as you do.

  • Dec 8, 2008 at 7:56 PM

    loving this page, and the beautiful photos!

  • JLBG's Profile Photo
    Sep 21, 2008 at 10:03 PM

    I really enjoyed going back to Mostar following your steps. I hope that next year we will pay another visit to this fascinating city .

  • HORSCHECK's Profile Photo
    Sep 20, 2008 at 4:03 PM

    Leyle, fabulous page with brilliant photos. Your page brings back memories of my visit of Mostar just 10 days ago. A pity your link to the "old photos" doesn't work anymore.

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