Sarajevo, Bosnia

This past weekend we took a 12 hour train to Bosnia. It was a last minute decision, Jared is in between jobs and I usually have nothing going on so we picked the closest place we haven't been yet. The train ride was long, there were no over night ones so we spent all day traveling. We packed our own food, good thing because there was no dining car, by time we arrived we were out of water and very thirsty :)



The first day we checked out old town and took a tour that took us around to all the war sites. The second day we just walked around the city some more, there really wasn't much more to see after our first day, we checked out an exhibit on the siege, it was pretty sad to see pictures of the city getting destroyed and learn how people worked to survive. That night we went to a jazz concert, part of the international jazz festival that was going on. Overall we had a great trip, learned some unfortunate history and had some excellent food..mmm...sausages with yummy bread, bbq veal and pastries filled with meat and cheese.


Tunnel built by the Bosnian army to be able to smuggle in firearms and supplies. Interesting enough we found out that the Serbian army knew about the tunnel the whole time but could not destroy it because on one end it was made out of old bomb shelters, ran under the airport runway and on the other end it was constructed on UN territory.

The tunnel from the UN side looking at the airport runway and the city behind





Unfortunately most of the buildings in Sarajevo look like this one with bullet holes covering them




This was the National Library before it was completely destroyed




The bridge where Franz Ferdinand was assasinated sparking the first World War




Old Town