Hicran Cigdem Yorgancioglu bu geziye ait günlüklerinden parçalar , notlardan bir demet 5846 sayılı Fikir ve Sanat Eserleri Kanunu’ndan doğan mali ve manevi hakların gerçek sahibidir. Sarajevo Bosnia Herzogovina / BOSNA HERSEK Bir hafta ara ile kış turizmine elverişli iki destinasyon seçimi tesadüf olsa gerek . hatta bir hafta ara ile önce Adnan Polat’in memleketine sonrada Tarik Hodić ‘in memleketine gidiş daha da büyük tesadüf idi. Balkanlar'da İstanbul’un yaklaşık 10 katı büyüklüğün [View Full Entry]

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Central Bulgaria was certainly a very positive surprise for us. After Plovdiv we headed north east towards Veliko Tarnova and through low rolling hills. We specifically stopped at places that at least Lonely Planet or Alex & Jill said were picturesque or of particular significance. In general this has been a good match with our interests over the years: we just tend to get there with marginally more comfort than LP's core demographic. Tryavna has an excellent crafts community operating out of the central medieval village. Superb wood carving and wrought iron work despite the plainnes [View Full Entry]

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Traveling around the Balkans I have been amazed by the range of vehicles people still use to transport themselves, their families and other livestock. Suffering a rush of blood, I started photographing these and now the best are added to the Blog as "BBB". Some real classics. For me these evoke the sights and smells of this fascinating part of the world. [View Full Entry]

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A 3 hour bus journey from Mostar on Friday (through more great mountain scenery) brought me to Sarajevo. Now this was a total change of pace from Mostar, a sprawling city that speads west from the old town to the communist monstrosities of the new town and beyond. The city's heart lies in Bascarsija (the Turkish quarter, still have no idea how to pronounce this) and the adjacent Ferhadija (the Austrian quarter) which lie north of the river. These are surrounded on all sides by hills covered with red-roofed houses and countless minarets from the neighbourhood mosques. It was from the [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday 2nd September A few hours in Sarajevo city We weren’t sure last night whether we should be concerned or not by the presence of a security guard and his large alsation dog sitting in a shipping container located between the hotel and the main road that runs past the building.It looked as though he may have even slept in the container.The hotel location is sort of isolated with only 3 or 4 other uncompleted buildings that could be houses adjacent.The hotel website on booking.com did say that ‘your car would be parked perfectly safe and secure’.Welcome to Sarajevo!! [View Full Entry]

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I had made some really lovely friends in Kotor, but I was very ready to leave the buzz of tourists behind after 3 days. I headed onto a bus to Sarajevo; left at 19:30 and arrived at the uncomfortable hour of 5am. I was not happy to be dropped off in the middle of relatively no where, and had to get a taxi to Sarajevo, which as I was about 30 km away, had to fork out 20 euros for a taxi which was about the same price as my bus there. When I eventually got to Sarajevo, the taxi driver [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday 1st September South to Bosnia-Hercegovina(hereafter called B-H) We face probably our biggest challenge of our adventure today as our plan is to drive south through Croatia to B-H and a 2 day stop in Sarajevo,a city that was at was just 14 years ago and by all accounts is still finding its way after a peace deal was finally hammered out between the 3 warring factions. Although we had breakfast included in our tariff at the Retro Hotel in Pecs it was fairly basic and for a moment we thought we were going to have to pay separately for our [View Full Entry]

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Ok...this is blog #3. This blog will include our pics from our ferry rides from the island of Korcula and then the nights in Mostar and the day trip to Sarajevo. Our trip to Sarajevo was great. It was long...and somewhat of a hassle do to road construction. I am in desparate need of a co pilot since my dad's sense of direction is...let's say...a bit OFF. Our day started with getting pulled over by the Mostar police and getting ticketed for not having our lights on at 10 am. Then when we got to Sarajevo...which was really worth it, but [View Full Entry]

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Here are some more pics from our last night in Bosnia & Hercegovina.... [View Full Entry]

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A few days ago I embarked on another traın rıde, and the destınatıon was the capıtal cıty of Bosnıa ın Sarajevo, a cıty that was under sıege for 4 years a lıttle over 10 years ago. The traın rıde took only 2.5 hours, whıch was such a shame because you could never get tıred of the scenery we encountered. The traın meandered through large mountaıns followıng a gorge wıth a fast flowıng rıver ın the centre. Unfortunately we were too busy talkıng for most of the trıp to really ta [View Full Entry]

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