Sarajevo!

Here are just a few pictures a photographer took I befriended while in Sarajevo. I have way too many myself to present them all here. These are from a walk up to the old k.- und k. Kaserene overlooking the city from one of the hills.

all photos courtesy of Branimir Prijak.

Jajce - this time for real

Like everything, also our language course had to come to an end. Some of us headed on to Sarajevo, and this time we deciced to actually take the right direction and stop over in Jajce. Which we did, and I was even happier we got to see Bihac too. In Jajce traces of the war were even more visible and the aura of despair clung to the city.

peace doves on the wall of the former (=socialist) youth centre

the destroyed kiosk next to the waterfall park, a potential tourist attraction

in the AVNOJ Museum*

Jajce, once upon a time

Franciscan church

the last picture my camera took before the batteries died

the tower above stari grad

when we went up to the old town, we noticed an old tower even furhter up the mountain. The locals said, it would take at least 3hrs to get up there, but in disbelieve we set out to hike up there one day after class. It took us about an hour and a half, and we were rewarded with a  stunning view and red wine in the sunset.

the omnipresent bulletholes

walking around the old (and only) factory

Kljuc prides itself in having beautiful and clean nature all around, the honey is produced organically. This, of course, is the one side of the medal. The other is the immense and widespread unemployment due to the lack of any industry. The old timber factory is supposedly fully functional, but since the war there is disagreement about the ownership. Thus, the factory is just sitting there, slowly decaying in her own tragic beauty...