Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Belgrade in Pictures

Heyyyyyy!  I thought I ordered a hamburger.

Our hostel's garden terrace...pretty snazzy

Some really interesting monumental fort thing that I wanted to explore, but Serbian military personnel had their eyes on us.


Hotel Moskva...can you tell who Serbia caters to???
We ate breakfast here...
The pedestrian shopping street...yeah we spent some time here

Waiting for our walking tour at Republic Square

Tulips!  How I have missed you

Bohemian street....full of bars and restaurants

A famous Serbian author who frequented the Bohemian Street

This poor little guy was stolen last year by some guys strapped for cash...the cameras were for his return

A mosque-oldest building in Belgrade

Graffiti artwork by one of the "hooligan" gangs...they have guys sit near it to make sure no one messes with it
Largest inflation in history about 15 years ago
Entering Belgrade's fort...first built by the Romans

I like little windows

While walking around the fort....

So pretty!

Quite the city symbol...

Near the War Museum located in the fort

? Bar and Cafe.....It was built a long time ago, across from a church so the owner gave it the name of the church.  The priest got mad and made him change it, so he stuck up a ? while he tried to find another name.  In the meantime, everyone came to know it as the ? Bar, so it stayed.
Our traditional Serbian meal...Sara and Aron split lamb...I stuck with grilled chicken
Yeah we killed it

The 2nd largest Orthodox church in Europe

It has been in the construction process on and off for 100 years.  The outside is finished, but not the inside.

While we sat eating ice cream.....a common occurrence on this trip.....the lights came on

One of the NATO bombed buildings left as a sort of memorial

Across the street...

Sarajevo in Pictures

Peace Corps anyone?

My packed lunch complete with a note from "mom" a.k.a. Sara

leaving Serbia, entering Bosnia

Park in memoriam of the children who lost their lives during the Balkan conflict

Eternal Flame

Serbian Orthodox Church, and a really neat statue

Art school in Sarajevo

I just like this picture

Sara and me killing time in yet another park

My first mosque

We fit right in...

Me entering the tunnel that connected Sarajevo to free Bosnia

Sara and me in walking through a part of the tunnel

Aron, Sara, and me outside of the Tunnel Museum

A house left in rubble

Some really good cake...I was really anxious to get started apparently

Me on the Latin Bridge...at the corner where Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Bosnian teen starting WWI

The 1984 Olympic rings

It was sights like this that really hit you.

So after trudging around the Olympic Stadium, we happened upon a soccer match. "Peace Corps is hard."

Statue in one of many cemeteries

Breakfast courtesy of our hostel director...basically meat/cheese/potato filled pastry

Another one of those "whoa" moments

Entering the bazaar in Old Town...this can only mean one thing: SHOPPING!!!

View from the hill we hiked

Favorite picture ever?  Just might be

Gosh that place was gorgeous

Giving the lungs a rest...
Sarajevo is famous for its metal working, especially copper

Lunch-Cevapi...basically hamburger meat, onions, and a creamy cheese all in a pita....DELICIOUS!

Inside Bosnia's oldest and largest mosque-Husrev Bey's Mosque

Sums up the whole trip.


Out to dinner with two other hostel guests--next to me is another American and next to him is a Greek