Back to being Beautiful at Sarajevo

Right form the time you get out of the taxi cab and enter the de mining project, the fresh layer of snows makes the ground all obscure.  You could hire a guide here, one of the many who helped us out was this Bosnian guide called Fikret. The guide takes you through the entire place going past blown up houses and the many trenches that are here in the woods. The bunkers here are splintered.

A tall tower that has been built in the Hapsburg style has been built in the nineteenth century although now, it has been damaged during the many wars that took place here.

Trebevic which is located close to the Koseva stadium used to be a major bobsled race venue. . The mountains have mines all over them. And when you explore this region, the grouped is chipped with hole in which the snipers used to take cover with their rifles. From these mountains you can actually gauge how beautiful this city is.

You can see battle line thaws were set for the Serbian people.  This fourteen thousand day choke hold was during the three years war between nineteen ninety two and nineteen ninty five. This was the way that was responsible for convulsing the country.  People used to come to the forests to cut firewood and take along with them to keep themselves. The hill here at Sarajevo is compared to walking inside an open flower.

The slopes of the Bjelasnica have names of the people like the Mahre brothers and the rebel downlhiller bill Johnson almost became talismanic here. . The Setra hall is where many international ice skiing competitions are held. Sport illustrated calls the games that are held here, the sweetest winter Olympics of all times.

In the year nineteen ninety two, the former Yugoslav army encircled Sarajevo with heavy weapons and thus a siege was started that was even longer than the torture of Stalingrad.

The Dayton peace agreement in the year nineteen ninety five was responsible for ending the way. . This beautiful and picturesque city started getting lot of tourists after that. This place is known to be one of Europe’s greatest undiscovered tourist destinations.

There are trams that run along the city here. There is a tunnel museum which has its terminus of a half mile tunnel that has been dug by hand.  This lies under the airport. This was probability for transporting soldier and supplies during the sieges.

Even though this place has European standards, it is much cheaper. Also it is quite exotic, safe and is rich in culture and history.

This city was founded by the ottomans in the early fourteenth century. Sarajevo can be rightly said to be quite cluttered and packed namely the sebilj square in Bascarsija.  There are many shops here made o wood and pink stones in old medieval alleys that are plucked from the old city of Istanbul.  This place has craft shops like book binding, coppersmiths and silk tailors.

Prada handbags and Chloe Clutches are displayed over shop windows here. The traditional Bosnian coffee is what sets the mood of the say. Do not be surprised if you see tall water jugs, this just happens to be an age old symbol of Sarajevo.

Flower vases have been crafted and are sold here in the handicrafts shops.  The bullets that were left over, were melted and used to make ball pointed pens. Stools that are sold are made of virgin copper.

The favorite fast food of the city is charred pita which is stuffed with small grilled sausages. This is served along with a glass of yoghurt.

There are shards of sunshine that shine through he white roof tops on the steep, snow covered hillsides that lie above the city. These black pines disappear slowly into the clouds.

There is a Viennese part of town which goes along the pedestrian promenade and heads westward. This reflects he strong Austro Hungarian Rule here. . This happened until Franz Ferdinand was killed here.

Check back here in some time to find out what more we could explore in the beautiful city of Sarajevo.