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I never had plans to visit Mostar.
However, considered all the alternatives in a free day in Dubrovnik, we reserved a full day to it. Pocitelj was only a stop, and Neum a place seen from the bus. It was a very impressive visit. War was still present everywhere, and no one resists to ask ourselves: Why? |
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Bosnia-Herzegovina is an interior country. To allow an access to the sea, Croatia has been cut with a narrow stripe of land, about 20 km wide. I was expecting a large concentration of industrial and naval buildings but couldn't find them. Even the touristy structures are discreet. Neum, where we just stopped, seems to be the largest town in the coast, with touristy facilities, and a reasonable commerce. |
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The Coast
The image of the coast is the same as in Croatia (it couldn't be otherwise). With Peljesac peninsula facing it, the coastal views are enhanced by the calm waters and life around it. It seems very suitable and used for seafood production. |
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Town
In a very strange arrangement, Bosnia- Herzegovina cuts Croatia in two, with a stripe of land less then 8 km large, to... reach the sea. In this short coast, the only relevant town is Neum. In a quick crossing I saw nothing special to add to the naturally beautiful landscape. Just a curiosity. |
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When we stopped there, buying babushkas in the stalls by the road, it was only a village with a mosque and a tower. When, later on, I arrived at home and read something about it, I was terrified by the horrors it suffered during the war. I don't remember any visual signs of it, a good proof of the human capacity to recover from drama. |
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"In August 1993, Croat warlord Mate Boban's troops blew up the ancient mosque, the Turkish baths, built in 1573, and the elegant houses built by eighteenth-century Muslim notables; then they rounded up the Muslim residents and marched them off to concentration camps." This is what I read in Internet In August 2006 we made a technical stop there, bought some fruit and babushkas, and honestly, locally we had no idea of that drama. |