Ameltravel

After an early bird wake-up at 3 :38 in the morning, we reach the first shuttle to the airport, leaving at 5. 25 minutes later, we were eating a croissant and a apple pie with our really last pieces. We even had to use one Euro to be able to pay the breakfast, as we didn’t really count well. Our easyjet flight EZS1038 back to Basel left at 8h05. Our cultural walk, lead us between thousand years of culture, of all religions. We learned to know turkish people, that are such kind and welcoming people! I fell in love with that country. Later, in Augst 2015, I had the chance to be a guide during the Folklorical Encouteers in Fribourg, for the turkish dancing group. I could make real new friends and I will from now ... read more

The old town of Split, is called Diocletian’s palace, like the name of a roman emperor. Actually the whole town is built inside the palace. It is a huge labyrinth of small streets. One of the doors opens on to the promenade in front of the sea and another door opens into the modern city. We couldn’t go up to the top of the cathedral, because of our very restricted budget (for the last three days of the trip), but we found a cheaper and cool solution instead. Walk up to the top of Marjan hill, to get a panoramic view over the city, the sea and the mountains. It is not that long, and totally worth the fifteen minutes’ walk and all the steps. Of course there is a little “café”. But the natural side ... read more

Sarajevo comes etymologically from « Saray » which means « palace » in the Turkish language that was spoken in the Ottoman Empire. After a restful night, we bought our breakfast at the local “Konzum” and went back to the exhibition to listen to the guided tour, which was really worth it, to get a good general view about the dark side of history of Bosnia-Herzegovina. We also had a glance at the “Sacré-Coeur” church, located right next to the exhibition. In front of it, the Pope Jean-Paul II in stone is standing, to remind the population of his visit. This city is incredible and stays in your mind for at least one reason: you can find a catholic cathedral, an orthodox church, a mosque and a synagogue. All of them in the same city, earlier ... read more

Having arranged the receiving of the car at 9 at the tourism office that rented us the car, we wanted to first purchase some food for the expedition. A bit stressed as we realised it was Sunday, they luckily had their food-store open on Sundays. I filled in the contract form, still being less than 21. What a surprise when Morgen showed up with a fourth person, in the name of Sami, 32 from Bristol, that he had met the night before at his hostel. The guy from the office had his birthday the night before and as a big fan of Bayern-Münich, someone had made him a huge “bayern-münich”-cake, with their logo. Against all expectations, we could find Kravice Waterfalls quite easily, following the office’s guy’s instructions. From Mostar, you follow the street direction Medugorje ... read more

After breakfast, our next destination was situated in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We took a bus, the only bus we had seen. The itinerary went by Podgorica, actually stopping in every small village, to check if eventually someone would want to get in and join us. Well, we passed by lake Shkodra and the settings were beautiful but we still lost a day in that bus. We finally arrived at 3.30pm in Trebinje. We should maybe have gone to Herceg Novi and from there take a bus. Maybe you should try that. We searched for the bus timetable, as we were already leaving to Mostar the next day. This was not without difficulty. Someone tried to help us, trying to talk with the only guy at the station, without success despite the fact that we were talking ... read more