We've been in Mostar for almost 36 hours and it's been raining the whole time, including the 20 minute walk from the bus station to the Old Town. No worries. The more water the better to fill the Neretva River and its tributaries that flow through the town and under the famous Old Bridge (Stari Most).
For some of the bus ride from Trebinje to Mostar we were above the snow line. But no falling snow - just rain.
Our first order of business after finding a hotel was to find some bureks for lunch.
The view from our hotel room at dusk.
The Old Bridge from several angles. ;-)
Mostar continues to rebuild from the destruction of the Bosnian War and there are still ruins around town.
But there are many improvements in progress such as this pedestrian street on the edge of the Old Town.
Today we made a day trip (using city buses) to nearby Blagaj which has a Dervish Monastery next to a cave where the Buna River comes bursting out of the mountain. Very cool!
The river coming out of the cave...The sound is from the waterfall just to my left out of the shot.
Monastery ceiling.
Sun-Ling by the prayer room.
Video from Blagaj.
Video: Call to prayer from Mostar.
Amazing to see river coming from mountain.
ReplyDeleteLove the night shots. The water is beautiful in the day shots too.
ReplyDeleteThe burek looks delish, but weren't you getting at me about writing about food, lol.
Liz and Kathy, The morning we left the water level at the bridge was down by over a meter from the night before. Puzzling. Then from the train we saw that there are two huge dams upstream from Mostar. So I reckon the waters were up because they were letting water out of the dam, then down when they cut back the flow.
ReplyDeleteKathy, More burek photos to follow I'm sure. haha