Sarajevo, Bosnia

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July 3rd 2009

Published: September 17th 2009

Friday July 3rd- We took an 8 hour (airconditioned...yes!) bus to Sarajevo, Bosnia from Beograd, Serbia. Tages and I were overwhelmed at how beautiful Bosnia was. We didnt know much about Bosnia and didn't know what to expect because it is not in the one large guide book we decided to bring. I felt like my breath was taken away when seeing Bosnia out of the bus window. The landscape slowly started... Read Full Entry

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Bosnian Toast

since this was not a traditional hostel, there was no common kitchen so we ate mostly bread and cheese from the grocery store.

Sarajevo Mosque

Clothing Store

Orthodox Serbian Church

There is a type of fertility saint that people pilgrimage to in this church.

Building in Sarajevo

Sarajevo's Old Synagogue

Sarajevo's Tram System

While riding the tram we noticed that the cars of the tram were donated from other countries such as Austria and Japan

Roman Catholic Cathedral

Gazi Husrev Bey's Mosque

Sarajevo Cobblestone Street

Eternal Flame

The Eternal flame is a memorial to the military and civilian victims of the Second World War.

Austro-Hungarian Architecture

the change in architecture style is really dramatic on the main street in Sarajevo from Ottoman Turkish to Austro-Hungarian

Graves in the Park on Marshall Tito Street

Many of these are children's graves.

Fountain

This fountain represents a parent and child because so many children died in the Siege.

17th September 2009

Mo
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Emliee!
How cool!!!! I'm so glad that you and Tages are blogging about your travels! Reading this and looking at the pictures made me forget all that was bugging me today! Have fun! And keep us all posted!!!!!!

18th September 2009

Graham
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Memory is a Casualty
Im so so glad you got to see the national library/archives and took a picture of it. This was the reason I was going to meet you there. The National Archives was a strategic target during the siege, because the goal was to erase all existing memory of the ethnic minorities in Bosnia. There are some very interesting videos of people scrambling to haul boxes of records out of the archives while the place is being bombed/shot at/torched. Several people were killed attempting to save the records. Thanks!

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