Mostar




Stari Most

 

Travelled to Mostar today for a day trip.  Mostar is a pretty town in the Herzegovina region of Bosnia which is home to a famous UNESCO World Heritage listed bridge which links one side of the town to the other over the Neretva River.  The town got its name from the word "Mostari" which means "Bridge Keepers".



 







View from the train on the way to Mostar





Apart from the gorgeous UNESCO World Heritage listed bridge I didnt think Mostar was that great.  It was really touristy, with lots of tacky overpriced souvenir stands, and every time you walked anywhere near the bridge you were constantly harrassed by male teens to give money as an incentive for some other teen to jump off the bridge into the water (they do it every 15 mins or so anyway). 





Old Town



The trips there and back on the train were disgusting, local people throwing plastic coffee cups/cigarette butts/misc other rubbish out the window into the beautiful forest, people smoking like chimneys and spitting out the window...gross. 

Caught the train back to Sarajevo and went for dinner again to To Be or Not To Be...great food (vegetarian!) and service!!