tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77943880781836707072024-03-06T01:10:21.145+01:00Gone with the backpackA girl, a backpack and a world to discover!Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618964502854469014noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794388078183670707.post-52041233866983974342015-08-25T01:58:00.000+02:002015-08-25T02:06:15.793+02:00ICELAND in a week for only 100€. Who said Iceland is expensive?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;">Seljalandsfoss. </span>The most beautiful waterfall in Iceland in my opinion </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the ring road in 6 days in Iceland</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Exactly 6
nights is what I had in Iceland. I knew I was cutting it pretty short with my
ambitious plan to go on the ring road…but it was already in my head and no
chance getting it out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SECRETS OF THE ICELAND RING ROAD <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1_-J3Tp2rb9_zhl6e-zjH4DwdhX0Ks5Gn12r4AlezeMx7anMoSlutYjPdiaARcB2MxsC7WMV8XevdYRJ9Jch75FafhP1u7qimlGxHQWjpu2Tt3qT5MPTdjxGza95BXTLolI8MQd_wcqN/s1600/IMG_1863.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1_-J3Tp2rb9_zhl6e-zjH4DwdhX0Ks5Gn12r4AlezeMx7anMoSlutYjPdiaARcB2MxsC7WMV8XevdYRJ9Jch75FafhP1u7qimlGxHQWjpu2Tt3qT5MPTdjxGza95BXTLolI8MQd_wcqN/s320/IMG_1863.JPG" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US">A full loop
around Iceland on the Ring road - Route 1 is 1340km (830 milkes)— is the only
route that circles the island</span>. It feels like someone put the most
amazing natural phenomenon I’ve seen around the world in a blender: volcanoes,
glaciers, waterfalls, icebergs, geysers, geothermal pools…all crammed onto this
island. If you are not that impressed by one, you are just a few hours from the
next. And you cannot do it by bus…the buses don’t go to the sights..thy only go
from town to town…unless you are on an organized tour but that’s is not
something that I would ever do anyways.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">So either
you need to rent a car (it will cost you minimum 500</span>€ for a week, petrol on top) or if you are
travelling alone just hitchhike. It is very common there and Icelanders are
pretty nice and stop often...plus they are super proud of their country and
want to show you more than whats written in the guides. Sometimes they would go
out of their way just to show you some hidden view or local event that you
would never find on your own. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I did try to team up
with other people and rent a car together before getting to Iceland but it was
so complicated that I quickly gave up. And hitch hiking was my only chance to
see as much as possible in a week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">COST. Even when it is expensive it could turn out cheap.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifsVMCxGtsOFTfXTSazhhyPtiFYQh3T0iIqdXc5ViIMXORBKzEAt0SffEF0hiWMBYv2UzTAsCm8ypeC40HpwCZNBB79x8z8rd-n_ulRiRNGdDUW8tEeDgqa5m6_wNdrQBe56_4aaa9TzK2/s1600/IMG_1825.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifsVMCxGtsOFTfXTSazhhyPtiFYQh3T0iIqdXc5ViIMXORBKzEAt0SffEF0hiWMBYv2UzTAsCm8ypeC40HpwCZNBB79x8z8rd-n_ulRiRNGdDUW8tEeDgqa5m6_wNdrQBe56_4aaa9TzK2/s320/IMG_1825.JPG" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US">I think most of you done a fair bit of travelling would agree that Iceland is probably the most expensive country in Europe together with Norway…(and Europe is probably the most expensive continent with a few exceptions here and there. The good news is that even in the most expensive country you can travel cheap.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Flight cost
aside, all I spent in Iceland during my 1 week stay, was 100</span>€ making a loop around the island . I changed
140€ at the airport but when I got back I had some crowns left so got 40€ back
for them. In total I spent 100€ which includes a 10€ bottle of wine I bought as
a present for my first Couchsurfing host at the airport. All food,
accommodation, transport is included. Well I did hitchhiked 90% of the time,
and I stayed in hostels only 2 nights but I think I did pretty well anyways. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">1 EURO –
150 kronas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">KEFLAVIK AIRPORT.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The flight
from Barcelona to Reykjavik with WOW air takes 4h10min and I was very surprised
to find out that the one from Boston is also only 4h..Somehow I always thought
of Iceland as part of Europe but it turns out it could be closer to the US.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Landed at
1,25am Icelandic time on the 2<sup>nd</sup> of Sept. Pretty stupid time but that’s
the low cost airlines, can’t complain… Also the Bardarbunga volcano</span> had
just erupted and I was happy enough to have made it to Iceland as all the
flights were cancelled the day before. Soit was neither to try to make it to the Reikjavik, nor
to have a sleep. I decided to try the second though, at the airport…Wasn’t the only
one..Not for long though cause they came to wake us up at around 4,30am because
the check in was about to start it was inappropriate to lie there…bastards! So
I moved to one of the chairs and the atmosphere was completely different at 7
am when I woke up: flooded with American soldiers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Temperature:
7-11 C. I literally came from the beaches to what we call winter in Barcelona..but
it was expected. Warm hat and gloves – obligatory. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="text-align: start;">Before and after</span></span></div>
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<b>Day 1. Airport - Reykjavik - Hveragerdi - Golden Circle - Hveragerdi. </b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First glance at Reykjavik</td></tr>
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Got quickly a ride at the airport to Reykjavik with an American guy who was coming to go salmon fishing somewhere in the north and then easily found another ride to Hveragerdi. Hveragerdi is a land of thundering waterfalls and steaming hills, where water spurts as well as forming pools, only 40 min north from Reikjavik. </div>
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There my CouchSurfing host Maria Anna lived. I literally just dropped my bags in her house and headed to the Golden circle, probably the most popular thing to do in Iceland, being so close to Reykjavik. It is a classic tour that comprises Thingvellir National Park, Gullfoss Waterfall, and the geyser and hot spring area around Geysir. I got a few rides with tourist, was lucky to find this Polish couple and did the whole circle with them.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is where the Polish couple picked me up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Polish couple in Thingvellir</td></tr>
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Got back to
Hveragerdi quite late but luckily it gets dark late so was able to make it “home”
before it gets dark. Maria Ana was such a nice host. Or should I call her Maria
Anna the savior as she actually planned
my route around Iceland. Working as a tourist guide so she is quite familiar
with both the touristic sites and hidden gems in Iceland. I wasn’t sure whether
or not I will be able to make the loop on the ring road hitch hiking in only 6
days but she encouraged me to do it, often hitchhiking herself to the northern side
of the island to Akureiri where she was studying. </div>
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<b>Day 2</b>. The route was <b>Hveragerdi hike - Sellfos - Hella, Seljalandsfoss - Skogafoss - Dyrholaey - Vik -Kirkjubaejarklaustur. </b></div>
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As Anna Maia suggested next morning I went on a hike to find the hot spring river. The
climb is about 2 hours and it's pretty challenging mostly because of the weather
and almost entirely uphill. You are rewarded with amazing views, waterfalls,
and geothermal pools and springs all around. Towards the end of the hike, just
when you're thinking that you took the wrong trail and ready to quit, the trail
takes a turn and then you see a spring running through the valley that is
indeed, hot. The weather wasn’t great and I made it all wet, covered in mud to
my waist…But it was all worth it. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hot spring river. Right in the middle of nowhere</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">I left Maria Ana´s house pretty late (had to dry my shoes after the hike, they were completely soaked. One thing I realised is a must do in Iceland is that you do have to book your bed in advance. Every single hostel or hotel that had affordable beds in the next 300km was fully booked. Finally I was lucky and managed to book a bed for the night in a hostel in</span> Kirkjubaejarklaustur (just try to pronounce it), which was 210km away and there were so many plcaes I had to stop and see on the way. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Seljalandsfoss
might not the biggest waterfall in Iceland, and not the tallest either. But it is the most beautiful
waterfall I think. It felt very magical walking behind it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dyrholaey Arch
is an obligatory stop along Iceland's South Coast. The turnoff to Dyrholaey
from Iceland's Ring Road is located 12 km west of the village of Vik i Myrdal.
A paved road leads south over a dam and ends after nearly 6 km at the lower
viewpoint. It´s a shame I couldn´t go to the giant basalt columns but i</span>t was almost sunset and had to hurry up. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Day 3</b>. </span><b>Kirkjubaejarklaustur - Skaftafel - Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon - Hofn - Reydarfordur - Egilsttadir - Seydisfordur. </b>The goal was to reach Seydisfordur by sunset, the music and arts hub of east Iceland. </div>
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was really really lucky getting a ride for almost 500 km with this old guy who
was going to see a friend in Nescaupstadur. One ride that took me all the way to
Egilsttadir, stopping at Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon and Skaftafel nature reserve
and passing through all the fiords on the east coast. I sure had luck that day. landscapes and colors were constantly changing and I took so many photos that now I can´t even choose which one to post. </div>
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When you're heading to Iceland, you obviously expect to find ice.. even in the summer. But probably not that much, ice in all shapes and colours and they change as the sun oor the clouds move in at particular angle… <b>Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon</b> is one of the most amazing natural wonders of Iceland. As soon as you arrive, you're hit with unspoiled nature where huge icebergs calve off Vatnajokull, the largest glacier in Europe. </div>
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<b>Seydisfordur</b><br />
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A place of singing waterfalls and peculiar characters, Seydisfjordur is a welcoming town booming with creativity and full of all kind of berries that no one eats (and they are so delicious!!). Inhabited by about 700 people, lots of them artists, musicians and craftspeople, the town acts as one big family and everybody is welcome. If you visit only one town in the Eastfjords, this should be it. The multicoloured wooden houses and the surrounding snowcapped mountains and cascading waterfalls made Seyðisfjörður the most interesting place in whole Iceland for me.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here it is <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Seydisfordur</span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">...I made it</span></td></tr>
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I couchsurfed with a guy from Belgium - the only couchsurfer in town who came 6 years ago and just stayed working in the hospital as a cook...There was more guests - a French couple who were going the opposite direction to me on the loop - clockwise. We exchanged some tips where to go and what to see from what we´ve done so far and it turned out that I was going to stay with the same host they stayed with in Akureyri. It was a very clear night and we were constantly checking for Northern lights which is the thing I wanted to see the most, even though I knew it was too early...but no luck. imagine my disappointment next morning when I was told by a group of French guys that they saw them....right there in Seydisfordur, where I was...I am such an idiot...who knows when I will have another chance to see them :(!</div>
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My lovely host from Belgium <br />
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There were all kind of weird projects everywhere...<br />
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What I personally loved the most was the amount of berries everywhere<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Day 4</b>. <b>Seydisfordur
– Egilsttadir – Mivatn lake (so many things to do) - Godafoss - Akureyri</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Lake Myvatn.</b> You can
easily spend 2,3 days only doing the hikes around lake Myvatn or visiting all
the sights. Just so much to do and again, lots to wild berries to eat. I
started with the hot mud pots area Hverir (one of the hottest in Iceland), then
the Mt Krafla and Viti crater. I think I did quite a lot for the short time I
had but also I did get lucky as while in the Grjotagja fissure met a group of 4
from Germany who invited me to join them while exploring the area (they had a
car!) and they were also heading to Akureyri afterwards. So we climbed together
to Mt Hverjall and walked around the rim of the crater (it takes an hour) and
then visited Skutustadagigar - an easy walk through pseudocraters.</span></div>
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Viti Crater<br />
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Grjotagja cave. water was way too hot..you can barely dip you tows for a few seconds<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHeQHUnhWsgZxjyR3K4QhGQtFOoj-vN9g22fag0yZsnYthgxdQQudy_RsM1Xh4hghUgVte9IdutQjNC5tUTShAPyASstFAKu1Lz0LBkGevhWLXzSzeQorQnkA57WdnQ_tSf7vxHexaDxB/s1600/IMG_2180.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHeQHUnhWsgZxjyR3K4QhGQtFOoj-vN9g22fag0yZsnYthgxdQQudy_RsM1Xh4hghUgVte9IdutQjNC5tUTShAPyASstFAKu1Lz0LBkGevhWLXzSzeQorQnkA57WdnQ_tSf7vxHexaDxB/s320/IMG_2180.JPG" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkhYZ9_qTOiFeP3ro5eT7n2Zvc8BamMCmF1AVc1Bq4Bni7_l-5ykrOg88SbP91vrF-ciUwYevVxsIARaWqOZy7eAf8U5vTqNVJDlHSJwMUpIUWLEVu3QPuEUV9rRQT8M5TPXZDzlJg-xS3/s1600/IMG_2181.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkhYZ9_qTOiFeP3ro5eT7n2Zvc8BamMCmF1AVc1Bq4Bni7_l-5ykrOg88SbP91vrF-ciUwYevVxsIARaWqOZy7eAf8U5vTqNVJDlHSJwMUpIUWLEVu3QPuEUV9rRQT8M5TPXZDzlJg-xS3/s320/IMG_2181.JPG" /></a> <br />
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<b>Akureyri</b>. The capital of North Iceland greeted me with viking beer and whale steak - loved the first and probably won´t try the second again. My host Steinn left me the keys for his house and waited for him until he comes back from work in the Viking beer factory. He used to go to Barcelona a lot and was really happy with my present - a fuet. </div>
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I liked the town a lot, very vivid and kind of stylish, I wish I had the time to stay longer.</div>
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September, all over Iceland groups of farmers and horsemen with their mountain
king or queen herd their sheep down from the summer pastures in the highlands
down to “Réttir”, large corrals where the sheep are sorted. They grab them by
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<b>Day 7: Reykjavik - Keflavik airport. </b>At the end I made it to the capital of Iceland and had exactly one day to explore it. The weather wasn´t great, pissing down with rain but I discovered what the best thing is to do in Iceland when it rains. The public swimming pools. I knew that every town has its public outdoor swimming pool which has nothing to do with normal swimming pools. I would call them spas. God, they are amazing! So many little hot tubes with different temperature, water slides, big and smaller pools....it is just incredible. And it costs nothing, real cheap (I think around 4-5€) when in Europe you pay at least 45€ for that.</div>
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I couchsurfed with Martin who was working during the day but in the night we spent some time talking and it was nice to hear more Icelandic stories from him. </div>
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Harpa concert and conference center was pretty nice!</div>
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My last day I spent walking around the city more, meeting Martin at the theater where he works and heading to the airport. My flight was not cancelled, the volcano was only spitting lava but not ash this time so everything was good. Can't think of any other country which offers scenes of such unusual beauty. So full of colours and unique views but also very intense week. And yeah, you can travel Iceland on a budget - only 100€ in a week and a whole circle around the island! It is possible!</div>
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Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618964502854469014noreply@blogger.com17Iceland64.963051 -19.02083500000003461.51099099999999 -29.347983500000034 68.415111 -8.6936865000000338tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794388078183670707.post-76220117295098307012015-08-08T21:21:00.002+02:002015-08-08T21:35:03.837+02:00MACEDONIA. Ohrid and Lake Ohrid.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Going to Macedonia was never on my plan. Been there before (only to Skopje though) and thought I wouldn’t have time on this trip to do it (only 3 months around the Balkans). But….I was just on the other side of lake Ohrid in Pogradec in Albania and thought I can’t just not go to Macedonia as literally you cross the border walking. Well, I did it on a bike.<br />
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I took a bike from the hostel where I was staying at in Pogradec and cycled to St Naum monastery in Macedonia (only 1km from the Albanian border).</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Set in the 9th century on the south-easter shore of Lake Ohrid the monastery, St. Naum was chosen primarily for its location – on a high, rocky outcropping over the lake, above deep forests and life-giving springs of the river Crn Drim. It was full of people, both local and foreign, but overall I did like it. The ride back to Albania was a bit steep but not too bad. There was a shortcut through the military zone and the soldiers were nice to open the door for me so that saved me a few km uphill on the bike (luckily we speak the same language).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">You can also go on a little row boat ride at the natural springs just there</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">I enjoyed this church much more than the monastery, so beautiful and less crowded</td></tr>
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After coming back to Albania, I realised that I can’t just go south without going to Ohrid, now that I was on the other side of the lake. And the next day I said goodbye to the lovely family running the hostel in Pogradec and headed the same way to Ohrid, this time hitch hiking. Got a quick ride to the border and there another car of some Albanian and Macedonians took me all the way to Ohrid. They were my age and it was sharing some inside tips about Macedonian language (it’s almost the same but some words have different meaning like the word “svirka” which means “live music” in Macedonian but “blowjob” in Bulgarian so you need to be careful what you say! </div>
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I was recommended Sunny Lake Hostel in Ohid and it was such a great choice. Met so many cool people there that I am still in touch with. And I ended up staying not one night as planned of course. As always actually. </div>
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The beaches are not
bad either and if you go a bit further to the right, past all the restaurants ,
you can find some quite isolated and not crowded spots to enjoy the lake. Water
was so clear and kind of cold (in July) but that was actually very refreshing
as temperatures were hitting 40 degrees Celsius. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lake Ohrid</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">I think only Bulgarians could understand why I find this sign funny</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Lake Ohrid. The beach far away from the crowds</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little guy was crawling in the grass together with another one, quite close to the centre</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">National workshop for handmade paper - it's not among the first couple of things to do in Ohrid but most definitely this workshop is worth a visit. The cigarettes pack has nothing to do wit it, just find it interesting :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The main street</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pearls from the lake are very popular here</td></tr>
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Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618964502854469014noreply@blogger.com14Macedonia (FYROM)41.608635 21.74527499999999240.089118 19.163487999999994 43.128152 24.327061999999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794388078183670707.post-24205048884709493962015-04-11T20:51:00.001+02:002015-04-11T20:51:23.717+02:00Albanian Riviera. Only for the brave or just keep it to yourself?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Not so long ago, when the Balkans were considered an "only for the brave" travel destination, only the bravest of the brave trickled into Albania. It is not gonna be off the beaten track for much longer so make sure it gets on top of your bucket list!</i></div>
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<i>"Ask anyone to give you their list of "paradise" destinations and Albania is probably one of the least likely places to crop up. But as I drop my bags, kick off my flip-flops and dive into a turquoise sea, the "P" word is the only way to describe what I'm seeing" by Matt Carroll.</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I divided my Balkan tour into two parts – first
one going south from Serbia to Greece all inland and non-coastal areas of the
Balkan countries and the second one starting from Saranda, Albania and Corfu
Greece and going north the coastal road. After exploring the interior of the country
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The Albanian Riviera stretches nearly 300 miles
from Vlore down to Butrint, forming one of the last stretches of unspoilt
shoreline in Europe. Around almost every corner there's a strip of empty sand
that is still untouched by invasion of the package holiday hordes. Yet…I’m sure
it is about to change pretty soon…The road is winding and you have to take it
slowly but the views that reveals at every turn are just breathtaking.<br />
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It is probably the most important tourist attraction of the Albania Riviera. Saranda has grown rapidly in the past decade. It is bustling in summer – mostly Albanians but it has been attracting more and more foreigners lately. A daily stream of Corfu holidaymakers take the 45-minute ferry trip to Albania add the Albanian stamp to their passports and hit Butrint or the Blue Eye Spring before heading back.</div>
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I got to Saranda hitchhiking from Berat with Glenn who just discovered that hitch hiking in Albania is much faster and more enjoyable than taking buses. I thought that it would significantly reduce our chances being two of us but that didn't happen. Albanians are so genuinely hospitable and generous that we had no problem getting rides (I think 8 cars in total). And we made before our Slovenian friends who left by bus from Berat, same time we did. </div>
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We stayed in Hairy Lemon hostel <a href="http://www.hairylemonhostel.com/saranda/">www.hairylemonhostel.com</a> Pretty nice vibe, cool views of the beach and lovely breakfast – all you can eat pancakes. Annette, the owner is happy to answer all your questions not only about Saranda but Albania in general. Originally from Ireland, she’s been living in Albania for 10 years now and is pretty familiar with all local habits, food and places.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ksamil. One day at Ksamil is probably worth the
trip if it wasn’t that crowded. Only 15 km away from Saranda, there are a few
beaches, lots of little restaurants and you can even swim to one of the nearby islands. I didn't but the guys did. It was 4 of us - me and 3 pretty tall boys and we managed to hitch hike without even splitting into two. Got picked up twice and made it to Ksamil faster than what taking a bus could have been. </span></div>
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If you do find yourself craving some ancient history you'll find it just half an hour drive away, in <b>Butrint</b>. Butrint is a microscosm of Meditarrenian history represented in all its phases of development, the rise and fall of great empires that dominated the region from the 4th century BC to the Ottoman defences created in the 19th century. The ruins of this city form an architectural index of ancient history, with Greek, Roman and Venetian remains all contained on one tiny island It is a UNESCO heritage site since 1992. You can amble along avenues of shady trees, working your way up through time, until you reach the island's highest point. The route takes you past the Venetian castle, an ancient Roman bathhouse and Christian baptistery…</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Being so c</span>lose to <b>Corfu</b> I couldn´t just not go there. Ferry to Corfu from Saranda is 24 euros (a bit pricey considering that you can almost swim to the island but no competition there). Another alternative exists if you are more flexible. If you go 75 km south to Igoumenitsa in Greece, the ferry only costs 10€ to Corfu town or 6,50€ to Lefkini. So that’s what I did. </div>
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Getting out of town, I quickly got picked up by a guy who not only took me to the other side of town (with my non existing sense of directions I was standing on the wrong side of town) and then to first village so I could hitch hike easier and safer but also didn’t let me leave the car without taking a bill of 50 euros! Didn’t help telling him that I have enough money and it is just my way of travelling…He insisted and I ended up taking it with the promise that I can return the favour one day by helping someone else on the road! Who said Albanians are dangerous!</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After a few days on Corfu I got back to Albania. Easy hitch hiking from Igoumenitsa to Butrint, nice old couple
who drove me extra 20 km just to make sure I get safe to Butrint. Then a few
more rides from real nice people, the obligatory coffee breaks on the road and got to <b>Vuno and Shkolla
Vuno.</b> I was told about this unique place by various travellers I met in Albania and definitely wanted to spent a few days there. </span>Hidden between the olive and fig trees, next to a beautiful 200 year old church and housed in the old village school, the hostel sits back, with an amazing view over the Ionian sea, a wonderful place to get off the beaten track. There is always a volunteer who would take care of you. And two restaurants in the village with very friendly staff and nice meals. </div>
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Another surprise was waiting for me in <b>Shkolla Vuno</b>. Met Antonia, another 33 old solo female Bulgarian traveller (not many of us around, first time I meet one actually). And quite a few goats and a donkey :))<br />
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Near Vuno is the best beach in my opinion in Albania - <b>Gjepe beach</b>. It is a 20-30 min walk down from the road (Shkolla Vuno provides transport to it every morning but if you are not a morning person like me, you can easily hitch a ride, not more than 5 min guaranteed). The beach is simply amazing with its canyon behind!<br />
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Another thing that surprised me in Albania was that they nod head for yes and shake head for no. Just like us! I always thought Bulgaria was the only country in the world doing it the opposite way. good to know we are not alone!<br />
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More than 40 years of communist rule under the dictator Enver Hoxha, followed by a ruinous period of extreme capitalism in the mid-90s, have left the country struggling to find its feet in the new millennium. </div>
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The bunkers were built as part of a parnoid government initative last century when Albania seemed to believe it was more likely than the USSR and the USA to be destroyed by nuclear bombs!</div>
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Another must visit place is the<b> Sea Turtle camp site in Drymandes beach (Dhermi).</b> This great little set-up is run by two brothers. Each summer they turn the family orange orchard into a vibrant tent city, and the price includes the tent (with mattresses, sheets and pillows), breakfast and a family-cooked dinner (served up in true camp style). Hot showers are under the shade of old fig trees, or it's a short walk to the beach. Make sure you reserve your tent in advance because it is always full.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Stones get really hot after lunch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">And us, happy happy at Drymandes beach. Private beach, private bar, Mojitos and sunset!</td></tr>
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Most of the beaches at Dhermi (Drymandes) are stony but if go to end of it on the right (looking towards the sea), you get to the rocks and then you can find plenty of tiny isolated sand beaches. Just when you think that you have just found you perfect spot, you go and look behind the next rock and another private beach, even more beautiful is waiting for you there...Mountains rise up just behind the beach, huddling together to increase my privacy</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Still searching for the perfect spot..Apparently it is just behind this rock</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">And here it is...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some Albanians even bring their suitcases to camp :))</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">The crowd here was laid back, and friendly as everywhere else in Albania. Mostly Albanians or Kosovars, all young, also camping, ready to help with information or anything else. Ask someone on the street and, even if they
cannot help, they will know someone whose second cousin definitely can. </span><br />
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As much as I liked Albanian beaches, it was time to go. I had a flight to catch from Zagreb, Croatia in less than a month and so many other places on my way north through the Balkans to see. Headed to Skoder (almost where I started from in Albania), had a stroll around the city (not that impressive) and made my way to the border with Montenegro. Another incredible country in terms of nature and people...but much more crowded.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shkoder and its lake</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another classic in Albania. Again smiling. </td></tr>
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Still not on top of your bucket list? Read my post about the Albanian mountains (Albanian Alps), Lake Ohrid and the Unesco heritage site Berat and it will get there :) <a href="http://gonewiththebackpack.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/albania-inlandthe-north-lake-ohrid-and.html">Albanian Alps, Lake Ohrid and Berat</a>. </div>
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25.331904999999967tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794388078183670707.post-49117028926039141902015-03-29T19:31:00.002+02:002015-03-29T19:45:38.558+02:00CORFU in 4 days. 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<span lang="EN-US">The island of Corfu in the north-western corner of Greece , or Kerkyra (ker-kih-rah)
in Greek is one of the greenest. With more rainfall than any other island there
is a variety and abundance of plant life that makes this Ionian island in
combination with its charming architecture and hospitable people a great place
to visit</span>. Beaches with sometimes oppressively thick development punctuate the
entire coastline. But if you have someone to guide you, you can still find some secluded beaches far away from the crowds. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">I took the ferry from Igoumenitsa, Greece to Corfu town (round 10</span>€, much less than the 26€ they asked in Saranda, Albania), <span lang="EN-US">took two hours. I was lucky to find a host on Couchsurfing because right
after arriving at the port I met 2 South African girls and a German guy I met In
Berat, Albania and they weren´t as lucky. My host Padelis told me how to get
to his place by bus but the bus driver forgot to tell me to get off when we
were at the stop so I was taken on a tour around the island…1,5h later we got
back to my bus stop, I made sure he remembers that time. </span></span><br />
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Padelis´ house was quite unique, in the middle of nowhere, didn´t even have an address. It was pretty old but it had a big garden (where they grow their own vegetables, the tomatoes were so tasty!) and the whole vibe was amazing. Everyone was very relaxed and laid back, like all the Greeks I happen to meet. They told me where the best beaches and less touristic sites are so I spent my time exploring the island and spending the nights in the garden with them and their many friends drinking beers and chatting…</div>
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Hitch hiking in Corfu is relatively common and easy, mainly due to the large number of tourists and Greek people who live abroad and come back for the summer. I didn’t have to wait for buses and get frustrated how bad transport is. The good part is that there are buses and the bus stops are often also good hitchhiking spots Got picked up even by an Albanian girl on her scooter! If it wasn’t that hot it would have been just perfect. I thought that Albania was hot but the heat in Corfu was even worse. It kind of sucked out all my energy so despite my ambitious plan to go to beaches situated at 3 different corners of the island, I couldn’t do it. Still managed to get to 2 different places every day, which was pretty good considering the heat (between 12 and 4pm you cannot do anything).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The smallest beer bottle ever!</td></tr>
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The beach is a long, wide stretch of soft yellow sand backed by bushes and wild vegetation, there are a couple of beach bars which serve drinks and basic snacks, beds & umbrellas can be hired at a few locations along with basic showers. Which makes it a luxurious spot for surfers, lots of space to rig up, very few swimmers to worry about, no parking problems or having to carry equipment on your back, leave your stuff on the beach to go for a drink and it will all be there whenever you go back. For surfers this is the closest you can get to 'lounge surfing' but not really a place to sunbathe (way too windy).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Chalicounas beach - the kite surfing paradise</td></tr>
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<b>Korission lagoon</b> stretches on one side to the soft sands of the sea on the other, this area is both beautiful and wild. The wind swept steepy dunes meet the beaches of St Georges, Issos and at its far end separated by a small inlet channel the beach of Chalikounas. Along the lagoons shores there is a rare cedar forest which I happened to cross going from Chalikounas beach to Issos. Took more than an hour and a few times I thought of going back being afraid of getting lost.</div>
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<b>Issos</b> lays east of the Korission lagoon opening and in essence is a continuation of Chalikouna with a very similar look and feel, but very different in use. Issos is well sheltered from the wind with no waves to talk about and being close to a number of tourist resorts it is a popular and busy spot for lots of young people. </div>
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I had previously arranged to meet some of the people from the house I was staying at so I wasn´t worried about getting a ride back home (the other side of the island) and enjoyed the sunset at Issos beach. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Issos beach</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of people on top of the sand dunes at sunset</td></tr>
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And... it was time to go...To make it more interesting and not repeating the route, I headed to Lefkimi, another port at the bottom of the island to take the ferry to Igoumenitsa (only 6,50€) and then back to Albania. Hitch hiking went smooth and made it on time for the ferry which was much less busy compared to the one I took to Corfu town. </div>
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Albania may not be on top of your list at the moment but push it up there... The country is still a virgin in the sense that humans have not interfered in nature much. And it is not as popular to tourists as its neigbours Greece and Montenegro. People are still genuinely curious to talk to you and know why you chose their country and are happy to answer all your questions. They don’t want to sell you anything, not yet…And you are not looked at as a walking dollar. Reminded me of what Bulgaria was when I was growing up – no resorts or shiny hotels, lots of wild beaches and camp sites, of course, really bad roads and poor infrastructure but people were much nicer to each other. The poorer, the nicer. Much less to lose, much more to give. So please, hurry up to see one of the few unique places in Europe left…I give it maximum 2 years and all that will change. The big corporations would bring their cranes and excavators to “develop” the country and as a result people would realise that they could actually make money instead of being so nice.</div>
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I got to the north of Albania first, hitching a ride in Kosovo just before the border. As always I knew close to nothing about the country I was getting to. Country #6 in the Balkans, I didn´t do any research and therefore had no expectations. Everyone who is not a traveller was telling me ”Be careful” or simply “Don´t go!”. I think movies like “Taken” could be blamed for the bad fame Albania has. The truth or at least my truth was quite the opposite. The most genuine and generous people I have met on my 3 months travels around the Balkans (together with the Bosniaks). The most incredible beaches and mountain rising up right next to them, huddling together just to give you more privacy. Albania took me by surprise big time! I remember when my couchsurfing host in Uzice, Serbia told me her favourite country in the Balkans was Albania, I said OOoook but kind of smiling inside and doubting that that would be mine too.</div>
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<b>Valbona</b> was my first stop in Albania, right in the heart of the "Albanian Alps". The region bordering Kosovo to the northeast, and Montenegro to the northwest, in combination with the adjacent district to the west, is a wild, high, mountainous area inhabited by strong and fiercely independent people, so it was never really conquered or subdued by the various waves of invaders during the last 2,000 years of Balkan history. The village itself is not really a village since it does not have any shop or any public institution and the guesthouses are quite a few km away from each other. But there is no doubt about the beauty and how isolated everything is from the rest of the world. </div>
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Most travellers come here to do the famous Thethi – Valbona hike, which is 8h hike one way from one valley to another. You usually carry all your belongings with you which makes the hike pretty difficult since the elevation is quite big. But once you get to Valbona you can relax and stay at villag house. What most people do, including myself is to take a ferry ride on Komani lake. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">A family of 14 picked me up in their van at the last section of 10 km at that forgotten by everyone road. Kosovars from Gjakova who emigrated to Switzerland 20 years ago, all very nice and happy</td></tr>
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It is a two-hour drive to the ferry's Fierzë terminus. When I say ferry I don’t really mean ferry but it is known by everyone this way..It’s more like a big boat but we did take a few big motorbikes on board. The boat tour costs only 5 from Koman to Fierze and 10 euros from Fierze to Koman. It is longer and more scenic the way back because they go inside the canyon and stop at a secluded beach where you can jump and swim. Anywhere else in Western World, this two-hour trip would be hopping with tourists, but Albania is not a big draw – for now.</div>
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7pm in Koman. Most of the passengers went straight to Shkoder in a van organised from their hotels but I stayed in Koman. There is a cute campsite, called Natyre, right by the river that had very simple cabins for 5
euros. The owner of the ferry - Mario also stays in the summer and nice to let me use his wifi. There were lots of
Campervans and Polish, French and Belgian families travelling around the
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I got dropped of right in front of my hostel in Pogradec. I was prepared this time and had a flyer that picked in my hostel in Prizren, Kosovo and the driver insisted to take me to the hostel. Recently my hitch hiking experience has reached another level - it works almost like a taxi, almost from door to door, no waiting at all. One exception - it is free and the drivers are usually very nice :). If you ask me now how and why I picked Pogradec as a place to stop in Albania, I wouldn't be able to answer. But i am glad I did it. It is right at Lake Ohrid and it might not be as beautiful as its Macedonian rival - Ohrid, which lays on the other side of the lake, the town has something. I stayed in Lake Ohrid hostel, which used to be owned by 3 expats who have a few hostels over Albania but now it was given back to the owners of the property. And they were really nice and friendly. It is the only place in town that has a swimming pool.</div>
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It was the end of Ramadan and on my second day at the hostel I was invited to have lunch together with the whole family. It was the traditional lamb they always have after Ramadan, even though they weren't religious at all. It was very tasty and very nice of them to invite me. </div>
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I took a bike from the hostel and went to Sveti Naum Monastery just across the border in Macedonia (first time crossing a border on a bike).</div>
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I was surprised how many wedding parties I run into just in Pogradec, It was Sunday but still...I saw at least five. Either on the beach or in the park, they were all posing for their photo sessions. I never come across wedding parties at home and when I travel it happens so often. Sometimes I even get invited to them so I always carry an OK black dress that I can use on any occasion. After my short visit to Macedonia I realised I can´t just go without seeing a bit more of the country (I´ve been there years ago). So next day I left Pogradec to go to Ohrid in Macedonia for a day or two (but of course I stayed longer).</div>
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<b>BERAT - Town
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After my short visit in Macedonia, I came back to Albania. I met some cool people in Ohrid, Macedonia so I extended my stay there. Some of them were heading exactly the same direction as me - <b>Berat, Albania</b>. But instead of travelling together we made a bet who´s going to get there first. Me hitch hiking or them (4 Slovenian guys and a Kiwi guy) using the very "efficient" Albanian bus sytem. The result: I won by 5 minutes. </div>
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Actually I should have won the race by hours but I decided to sleep till 11 when the guys left at 8am. So all showered and fed, I was already 3 hours behind when finally I hit the road at 12h. I was quite lucky with the rides (all together 9) in the sense that never waited longer than 5 min but no one took me for more than 40km. And on top of that, my last ride to Berta, was with the milkman. he stopped at every single shop in town to deliver the milk. At this point I already thought I had no chance and was about to go buy beers for everyone (part of the prize the winner gets) but surprise, surprise, no one was there when I got to the hostel. They all came 5 minutes later. </div>
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We stayed in Berat Backpackers hostel which was full of backpackers and had a great location in the Old Quarter. I think it is the only hostel in town and they accept volunteers - they had a Kiwi guy volunteering at the time. In the late afternoon a big group of us headed to Kalaja, 14th century Christian citadel of ruins. The neighbourhood inside the castle's walls still lives and breathes and is perched on the top of the steep hill. When we were approaching the top of the hill, we began to understand the town’s nickname. It’s a twenty walk up a steep cobbled street but it is a high-light and well worth the sweat!</div>
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Next day me and my group of guys had another race: Saranda, the southernmost beach town in Albania. Again, they wanted to take the bus and me and Glen (who turned out to be smarter than the others and decided to join me) went by thumb. The start wasn´t very successful because we lost an hour on the town bus going to the wrong end of town and then had to go back and get to the other end. Who said that guys are better with directions? </div>
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Anyway, we got picked up by 9 different cars, by all ages and genders but one thing in common - all nice and friendly. We even mad a beer stop in a nice beach cafe in Vlore. Glen loved it and we made it to the hostel before the other group. after that everyone was convinced that that´s the way to travel in Albania. And not only...Two of the Slovenia guys went hitch hiking all the way to Istanbul. I´m so glad that I converted them :))</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Trying to get us a ride. First timer</td></tr>
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Apart from its obvious and still unspoiled beauty, Albania is one of the few places in Europe that tourism is still undeveloped and people just wanna talk to you and help you in whichever they can without any ulterior thoughts. And hitchhiking is the best way to travel (I´ve converted so many people already), unless you have Albanian friends (with a car) who know the roads well. And I haven´t even mentioned the beaches yet...</div>
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On 26th of Feb, after all the hassle getting my visa, I finally made it to Australia. Landed in Brisbane, quite late at night. It took less than 30 seconds to pass the immigration (I was expecting to go through all the questioning again) and my luggage didn’t get checked (probably because I said NO to everything…although I had spices in my bag and my hiking shoes were quite muddy). Andrew (our host from CouchSurfing) and my friend Pesho came to pick me up at the airport and we went straight to the house and bed. Although we stayed awake for a while, as we had to catch up for the 3 weeks Pesho spent in Oz and I was in NZ. I missed my flight to Cairns because of my Australian visa so Pesho was 3 weeks ahead of me, he did the stretch between Cairns and Brisbane which I missed. That means I didn’t get to scuba dive at the Great Barrier Reef :(.<br />
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Stayed 2 days in Brisbane, spent some time wandering through the streets and the river – the ferry functions just like the buses in other cities and its pretty nice. Had a dinner and drinks with Pe&Andrew and their Chilean friend Marcelo, who was just learning how to swim (at the age of 35) with the idea of doing a triathlon in 2 months (bet 400 $ on wining against his friends). Then we headed north.</div>
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<b>Fraser island</b> (300 km north of Brisbane) – the largest sand island in the world.</div>
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The plan was to hitchhike to Hervey Bay and we did it but I wouldn’t say it went smooth. Hitchhiking is not that popular in Australia anymore, after a few murders on the road (they even made a film about it), drivers don’t dare pick up hitchhikers and also not that many travelers try their luck that way. We made it though, pretty late but we made it. We made a bet on what colour the cars that would pick us up would be and I won: white. 4 white ones against 2 silver ones which was Pesho´s guess. It was getting dark and we were already looking for a place to camp when a white car stopped and the driver was nice enough t<span style="font-family: inherit;">o take us to Harvey bay, even though he wasn’t going that far. Slept in a nice hostel and in the morning got up early to take the ferry to Fraser island. <span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Hitch hiked to the ferry (the taxi costs 60$ for 14km! if you don’t pay for a tour), a nice old English guy picked us up and took us all the way to the ferry, even though he wasn’t going there. Again. Among all the people on the ferry, we were the only ones planning to walk across the island, everyone else was on a tour or had rented a 4WD. The plan was to do part of the island´s Great walk (90km). Later on we realized it was way too ambitious to do it in April. But still amazing :)! </span></span></div>
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From Kingfisher Bay we walked to Lake Mackenzi, relaxed at the beach, camped there by ourselves, there were only 2 French girls sleeping in their van. Felt a bit creepy with all the noises and dingos around.</div>
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Centrals station, Lake Birrabeen where we stopped for some beach time. Batteries recharged, we quickly walked around the edge of Lake Birrabeen and past the dry reedy swamp of Barga Lagoon. At its southern end the swamp merged into the waters of Lake Benaroon - at last, our stop for the night! Benaroon, trees gradually became taller and vegetation denser and soon we found ourselves once again in the lush rainforest but couldn’t find the way out and it was getting dark and scary. Covered in scratches and mud we went back to the camp site at lake Benaroon and spent the night there (on our own again). I promised myself that I would complain how irresponsible they are, not marking the route – it was impossible to find the path. Next day we went back to the main road I continued to lake Boomanjin. Luckily an English couple we found there, gave us a ride to Dili village.</div>
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Once in Dili village (13 km), we decided to leave even though we had another day left on the island (you buy permits before u get to the island) and then to Manta Ray ferry. A truck driver took us to <b>Rainbow beach</b> (we didn’t even pay for the ferry) and when he was about to drop us off at the backpackers hostel, he said “You know what, we have a spare room in our house, why don’t you just come and stay with us” ..we didn’t think much. Pesho and Chuck (the other guy living in the house) spent hours talking about fishing so I had to entertain myself cooking. Nice guys and funny stories to hear (apart from the fishing ones).</div>
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Bus back to Brisbane, got the rest of the luggage from Pe&Andrew´s house and then train to <b>Gold coast</b>. Rachel and Tony and baby Rocco came to pick us up. Rachel was my ex boyfriend´s girlfriend before me and even after we broke up, we stayed in touch and when I told her I was in Australia, she invited me to stay with them. And it was so nice to be in a real house with old friends. I really enjoyed the dinners over some wine and the lovely time on the beach. While Pesho and Tony were trying to build the deck, we had some time to catch up on our lives - my travels and her new life in Australia (and the baby Rocco). Again we stayed longer than planned but it was lovely. </div>
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Stacey who we were travelling with in the South island in New Zealand, recommended Keith as a host in Byron Bay. He came and picked us up from the bus stop. He had bunch of other people staying with him plus these Swedish girls who were in town. I had my first proper surf lesson, Keith was nice to spend some time with me teaching me and finally I stood up! First night we went to some bars in town and the second night we had a barbecue at the hostel where the Swedish girls were staying…</div>
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<b>Evans Head</b> – I arranged volunteering for a few days at a surf camp in Evans Head, run by John: <a href="http://volunteering%20in%20a%20surf%20camp%20in%20australia/">Volunteering in a surf camp in Australia</a>. The town itself was nothing impressive, another small village with big waves and lots of fish but it felt like a little paradise for us. I was the first person to use the newly installed WIFI in the public library. There were so many activities to do – fishing, surfing, kayaking, beaching, almost not doing any work, barbecues and drinks every night next to the river. Pesho was literally fishing from the back yard all day long cos his knee was still sore after the motorcycle accident (and because he is crazy about fishing). But I took this opportunity to try and learn how to surf properly this time. There was another volunteer – Polina from Holland (ex soldier, yeah! She was even in Afghanistan for a year) and we went to the beach every day with the surf boards trying our luck. At the beginning John showed me on the sand and in the water a few tricks and after that I was able to stand up on my own. Not every time of course but it still made me extremely happy.</div>
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From Evans Head we went hitchhiking to <b>Sydney</b>, 900 km in just one day, made it in 11 hours, meeting all kind of people. Luckily the last guy was going straight to Sydney (500km) and he was also our age so was fun talking to him. Made it just in time to get the last train to Colin´s house. I met Colin 5 or 6 years ago at New Years Eve party my Macedonian friend Desi threw in her house in Skopje. There were people from all over the world at the party but no one had made it to Australia yet so Colin was pretty happy to meet me (or at least he said that :). He and his parents were really hospitable and wanted us to see everything in their city. He took us to the <b>Blue Mountains </b>(not blue at all) where he used to go climbing.</div>
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Colin also gave us a small tour around Sydney and its beaches of course. The weather was just perfect. I personally prefer Melbourne but Sydney has all the beaches, you cannot ignore that!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">In the oldest bar in Sydney according to Colin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Bondi beach</td></tr>
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The beaches in Sydney was our last stop. 4 days in the city and surrounding, it was time to move on. We had a flight to Perth where Foo was already waiting for us. The plan: Perth to Melbourne by car. No car yet and, no firm plan, decisions will be made in the time of speaking. But for sure it will be fun! <a href="http://gonewiththebackpack.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/australia-perth-to-adelaide-or-london.html">Road trip from Perth to Melbourne</a>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A self explanatory part from the "NEWBORN" sign in Pristina. And Peja of course</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Prizren</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Kosovo is
not on anyone’s bucket list! There is very little known about the country and I was
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It is the youngest country in Europe, born in 2008 after proclaiming independence from Serbia. Serbia rejected this declaration. Countries including the US, Japan, Australia, NZ and most of the European Union sided with Kosovo, acknowledging its independence; many countries, including China and Russia, did not.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With about
93%-96% of Kosovo Albanians in the country (depends on the source of information), it has
almost nothing to do with Serbia in my opinion. I recommend to anyone going to Kosovo, to spend some time with locals (both Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs). You might hear different versions of the same story but that is normal for such a conflict zone. I am not saying that what you are going to hear is nice or a fairy tail like. Actually quite the opposite, it is mind boggling. But it is the reality and it happened in Europe, not long ago taking much more victims that any other terrorist attack today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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To this day, Serbia considers Kosovo to be part of Serbia — and that causes implications for travellers. The map I got in Serbia was useful for me in Kosovo too as it included Kosovo as a territory. If you enter Kosovo via an international border, as I did from Montenegro, you can’t exit through a non-Kosovo Serbian border. If you do so, Serbia will declare that you entered Serbia illegally.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you plan to visit both Serbia and Kosovo, I recommend to do either: 1) Travel to Kosovo from Serbia (there is no border crossing between Serbia and Kosovo), then go back to Serbia and exit Serbia. 2) Arrive in Serbia, travel to Kosovo, and exit via Kosovo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Or... 3) If you travel on a EU passport and have a national ID, don’t use your passport but your country’s ID because they can’t see any stamp. It is what I did. I had my passport with me but travelled the whole Balkans using my Bulgarian ID (I tend to run out of passport pages in places where is no Bulgarian embassy within 1000 km radius so I am careful now). </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pristina main pedestrian street</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">I entered
Kosovo from Montenegro, coming from Rozaje. The border crossing post in
Montenegro is miles away from the one in Kosovo so if you are hitchhiking, make
sure you get a ride in Montenegro if you don’t have one already, do not cross the border on foot. It’s enough just to ask
any of the track drivers heading that way. It is a narrow mountainous road
mostly in poor condition, climbing towards the border and then descending into
Kosovo to the town of Pec (Peje)</span>. I didn’t stay long in Pec and headed
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My first half an hour in
Pristina took me by surprise – I didn’t expect to see such a big main pedestrian
street full of life. Literally, I thought that the whole city was out there
eating and drinking. And unlike the many ageing European societies, Kosovo has
something that you notice straight away- its young people. I am not sure if it
was because it was summer but I could see them everywhere, had the feeling the
nobody works in Pristina - every single café
or restaurant was packed. What everyone was telling me was that Kosovo is not a Muslim country. Three religions – Islam, Orthodoxy, and Catholicism, have long coexisted in Kosovo. Kosovo Albanians do not define their national identity through religion, but through language and have a relatively relaxed approach towards the Islamic religion.</div>
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kilometre space in the centre of town where internationals and those working
for international organizations predominate; the further you go from the
centre, the less likely you will be to find English widely spoken. Navigating
around the city is easy - the city centre is small and walkable</span>. By the way no running water between midnight and 6am.</div>
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It is not a beautiful city but I liked it. I think I was more surprised than anything else by how full of life the city was. And wanted to hear more about Kosovo and their life from my host on Couchsurfing Florim. He took me out for dinner (it costs you the same if you cook at home or eat in a restaurant) and the food was really good and ridiculously cheap. Had dinner at 10 pm and then went to a bar and leaving at around 12,30 all the restaurants were still full and so were the bars. On Monday night! Albanians. Blond, dark, any. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Albanian flags are on display everywhere</td></tr>
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Albanian pride is on
display everywhere, the double-headed eagle on a blood-red background filling
signs and banners in the streets. Most of the Kosovars I spoke to, still
consider themselves Kosovo Albanians but as they say in the next few years that
will slowly change and The Kosovo identity will be more distinguished. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">The cheapest ice-cream ever (prices in €)! Everything is actually ridiculously cheap in Kosovo </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">The Library in Pristine, Kosovo. Voted as one of Top 10 Ugliest buildings in the world. But I quite like it</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Cigarettes sold at every corner </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The biggest ones in Albania (Korca) and Kosovo (Peja)</td></tr>
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here. I didn’t believe it but it is true – they do love Americans here. Kosovars
are very grateful to Klinton for stopping the Serbs in their ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo. My host Florim in Pristina told me “You are laughing but if it wasn´t him, I probably
wouldn´t be here talking to you”. Maybe he is right. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">They didn’t have money for food, no work, it was forbidden
to go to school, the Serbs closed all the Albanian high schools and
universities so they created their own school system in private houses
and it was recognised in Europe after the war. They all made it through thanks to the money their
relatives living in Switzerland, Germany, USA or wherever they fled to, sent home. It is
incredible: 2 million Kosovars live in the country and 1 million abroad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I saw so many cars with Swiss and German
registration plates that it was ridiculous. All coming backs to their homeland
in the summer. There
were six Kosovar players only in the Swiss national team at the World cup in 2014!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>PRIZREN</b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view from my room in Prizren City Hostel</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Stayed in <b>Prizren City Hostel, </b>the only hostel in town (summer 2014). Great vibe and excellent staff. Free
breakfast, coffee and tea at any time, and free beer at night.</span>I call Prizren "a little Sarajevo". Same pretty old houses left from the Ottoman empire, same cobbled streets winding around Shadervan square and its cozy little cafes, the river and its stone bridges, the fortress..it all made me want to stay longer.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I also met up with Valdrim from Couchsurfing who had a degree in Political Science and was the perfect guide for someone like me who always have questions. </span>He told me a lot about the war and how they lived before that. Valdrim wrote lots of articles himself for a national newspaper and abroad, but got tired and fed up with the response he got. At least he was happy to talk about it and didn´t mind all my questions. He took me to the historic museum <i>Kompleksi Monumental I
Lidhjes Shqiptare Te Prizrenit</i> where I was given a real lesson about the history of Kosovo. We also went to a "tekke" - a prayer room where the dervishes gather to practice Sufism. The Sufi order religious leadership is family-based, with sons inherited the 'spiritual power' of the father.Dervishes claim to communicate with the devine through a sheh, the spiritual leader of the community, and perform a specific ritual called ziker.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The fortress in Prizren</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prizren</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">But not all buildings in Prizren are that well preserved</td></tr>
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Electric wire swinging everywhere in Prizren<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fortress</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">400-year-old Sinan Pasha mosque</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">League of Prizren building (history museum)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">In the house of the sheh (the spiritual leader of the dervish community); he is the one on the right</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Like in mosques, shoes need to be removed before entering a "tekke"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Some traditional costumes Prizren Police car</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Cebapcici / tulumba</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The family who picked me up</td></tr>
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After being so warmly welcomed by everybody I met, the best of Kosovo lies in getting to know the people. And I hope I come back and have the same the experience again. maybe for the Film festival in August. </div>
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The next stop of my Balkan route
was the mountains of Albania. I h<span lang="EN-US">itch hiked to Albania via Gjakova and made it to Valdova. A whole family
of 14 picked me up (Kosovars from Gjakova living in Switzerland) for the last
section of 10 km in the mountain.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the few not crowded beaches in Montenegro...I am not saying it easy to find them but they do exist!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the Kotor´s city walls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">My route in Montenegro</td></tr>
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It’s the second-newest country in Europe (after Kosovo), gaining independence from Serbia in 2006. With Serbia now being landlocked, it’s still the major summer destination for a lot of Serbians and many locals still identify as Serbian. At least the language is the same and they say they speak Serbian.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Piva canyon. Source: <a href="http://www.mototrip-tours.com/">http://www.mototrip-tours.com/</a></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Montenegro has
one of the most rugged terrains in Europe. Mostly mountains (as you can guess
from the name - Black mountains in English), here’s a tiny flat bit in between
which is as built up as you can get; 800,000 people squeezed into not much
space at all. I’ve never seen so many tunnels in such a small area as I did in
Montenegro. I approached the country coming from the north –Bosnia. I left Sarajevo
in the morning (kind of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US">) and
the plan was to get to Zabliak in Montenegro hitch hiking by the end of the day.
It was all going very well until I got stuck on a less frequented mountain road,
10 km before the border. No cars were passing so when I saw a bus coming just
jumped on it. I have never imagines that the roads goes through such a
beautiful canyon – Piva canyon! The views were stunning and the road so
narrowed that if someone is afraid of heights I do not recommend this section. <o:p></o:p></span>So many
tunnels and bridges meandering from side to side…</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bridge over Tara river</td></tr>
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Somewhere before Niksic I got dropped off at a turn off to continue hitch hiking to <b>Zabljak</b>. Didn’t have anything booked there but talking to the locals I quickly found a bed in a nice guest house for 10€. When i arrived they already had the BBQ going outside with some wine and rakija, that´s what I call perfect timing.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barno Lake...but it looked more like a swamp - very low on water I guess</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Don´t know what they were but the whole lamp post was covered with them </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tara bridge</td></tr>
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After Zabljak, I headed to Kosovo, again hitch hiking and I came back a month later to explore the coastline. Coming from Albania quite late in the afternoon I went straight to the first town on the coast <b>Ulcinj</b>. Its the major destination for Kosovars since they are landlocked. To my surprise, everything was full and it was impossible to find a bed for one night, at least not for a reasonable price (less than 20 €). When I was getting a bit tired of all the walking around up and down the hills, just asking a group of young boys and girls about possible accommodation, they offered me to stay with them since they had a free bed in their room. Again I was lucky. They were all from Kosovo and their early 20s. It was fun talking to them and walking around the Old town. The town itself is charming but way too crowded. The beach was so full that there was no space to put your towel. So after one night and a day on the beach, I headed to Kotor. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">T</span>he typical death notices are not missing in Ulcinj either. Christian and Muslim together. And my hosts from Kosovo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">. On the way to Kotor..Sveti Stefan island - one of the most iconic sights in Montenegro</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Kotor</b> is
really pretty. The bay of Kotor, everything inside the city walls and the views
from the fortress are gorgeous. Even simple things like hanging laundry and the
usually annoying electric wires are beautifully blended with its medieval architecture
and cobbled streets (<a href="http://gonewiththebackpack.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/kotor-laundry-shutters-wires.html#more">Laundry on display in Kotor</a>).
As everyone else I met, I stayed longer
than planned but probably because of the nice people I met there. The downside
is that is very crowded and I really hope it does not head down the same path
as Dubrovnik, where human traffic jams are common in the Old Town. I also don’t
want the Budva model to catch on, where the whole coastline just resembles one
big nightclub and adjoining funfair.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">My favorite square and church inside the Old Town</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">First thing you see when you enter the city walls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Kotor. Inside the citiy wall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Otside the city wall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Climbing to the top of the fortress. Hot and humid. Only recommended to be done very early in the morning or at sunset.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">It´s nice to be up here at sunset</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beautiful Bay of Kotor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No name beach</td></tr>
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My friend Antonia who I met in Albania recommended me to go to that beach half way to Budva from Kotor and she was so right about it. I love Montenegro and its beaches but it is so crowded in the summer that almost kills my desire to go to the beach. Luckily we found this "No name" beach and its cute beach bar. Crystal clear water, some rocks in the sea and only a few people! Krista, an Australian girl from the hostel joined me and we hitchhiked to Jaz beach (very busy as well) and then walked on the beach direction Budva for about 15 min, passing two more beaches (nude ones) until we got to some big rocks and behind them was our secluded "No name" beach. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">What is a beach without a cold beer?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Krista relaxing under the shade</td></tr>
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We were quite close to Budva anyways so after relaxing for a few hours we headed that way. Wasn´t difficult to get a ride and quickly made it to the Old town. To my surprise it was very pretty and well preserved. We even met the Italian guy I went to the fortress in Kotor with. Most backpackers that stayed in Budva complained that it was way too crowded and expensive, full of shops and clubs destined for the Russian tourists. It wouldn´t be that bad if half of Russia didn´t descends on the country during the summer. And that was the reason I skipped it but a few hours walk in the Old town did not hurt :). </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Laundry in Budva</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Views from Budva´s fortress</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Krista and I hitchking to Kotor. No name beach on the right</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Krista trying to hitch a ride back to Kotor. First timer :)</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I stayed in</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><b style="text-align: justify;">Old town hostel</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">in Kotor (</span><a href="http://www.hostel-kotor.me/" style="text-align: justify;">http://www.hostel-kotor.me/</a><span style="text-align: justify;">) which is by all means one of the most beautiful hostels I ever stayed. Built in the 13</span><sup style="text-align: justify;">th</sup><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">century, the building uses to belong to a noble Bisanti family. It felt more being in a stylish aristocratic house of the Middle age, all made of stone and wood. </span><br />
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Great location, plenty of room in the dorm, big lockers, 2 kitchens, one in every wing and very friendly staff who are ready to help you with everything. Nikola and Marko were the two I mostly interacted with but I got to meet the owner Slavenko as well. I was surprised how the guys working there managed to sleep at all – taking out the hostels guest to pub crawls, organizing dinners and parties and being so energetic and positive all the time. Every single day and night. Pretty impressive!</div>
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Also, they organize all kind of tours, including to Durmitor national park and Tara canyon, transport to Croatia and Albania. One thing I noticed as common for everyone who stayed in the hostel - they all stayed longer than they planned (if it is not full of course but even then they help you find another place). Great vibe and atmosphere! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cocktail night at Western wing of Old city Hostel </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">RAKIJA - one of the Balkans inventions. I don´t know if it connects them but gives them a hell of a hangover</td></tr>
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When the big cruise ships dock in Kotor, the only street connecting the bay to the Old town is literally collapsed by the cruise passengers crossing the street at the only pedestrian crossing. Imagine 3500 people who have to cross this tiny street all at the same time (within 20 min lets say)!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">When the big cruise ships dock here, the only street connecting the bay to the Old town is literally collapsed by the cruise passengers crossing the street at the only pedestrian crossing. Imagine 3500 people who have to cross this tiny street all at the same time (within 20 min lets say)!</td></tr>
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I also visited Tivat and Porto Montenegro - the super Yacht marina and the adjacent waterfront in Tivat. Lots of pretty boats :))!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Porto Montenegro</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beach from my spot. Plavi Horizonti</td></tr>
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Such a small country and so many things to see. Have been to Montenegro in summer? If i go again I would avoid the busiest months and go in June or September but that is just me coz I am allergic to big crowds of tourists. How do you grade Montenegro campared to its neighbours in the Balcans?</div>
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<b>Kotor, Montenegro </b>is one of the most beautiful towns in the Balkans. A UNESCO World Heritage site, the old city was built between the 12th and 14th centuries and is filled with medieval architecture and historic monuments. Known for its beautiful bay, the maze of cobbled streets, lovely antique shops and plenty of cozy restaurants, within the city walls you discover beauty at every step. </div>
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But I was very impressed by something else you come across at every pace: the colourful display of laundry hanging from the windows, nicely blended with electric lines also meandering between the buildings. Those views are not that uncommon I know, I´ve seen it often in medieval towns across Europe. Nevertheless, in Kotor all the streets are so narrow and space is so limited that it is the only possibility to dry your laundry. And the strange thing is that is not eye disturbing at all, it is beautifully harmonized with the facades and wooden shutters.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The electric wires are actually not that many and annoying that I´ve seen in other places</td></tr>
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Have you been to Kotor? Or other towns with their narrow street and laundry hanging from windows and balconies? </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mostar, Ready to jump</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">The division was the result rather than the cause of the war. </span></b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I have to admit I was very ignorant of what
happened in the territory of our Western neighbor back in the 90s. Maybe I still am, 3 months are clearly not enough to understand something
so complicated…</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Country of 3 ethnics, 3 religions and rivers of blood during the
war. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span>Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs who were school friends could no longer be friends. Mixed ethnicity families were confused and displaced; where were they to go? Should they separate for their own safety? Where ethnicity and religion meant nothing in the former Yugoslavia, it now means everything. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I am not going to discuss here what happened in
Bosnia or what my understanding about is. There is enough written and everyone
who is interested can read about it. Just to mention for those who didn´t know
that Bosnia is the place where the war took most victims and where the ethnical
mix and mixed marriages were something common and normal before the war. There
is such a thing as a Bosnian Serb (someone of Bosnian nationality who is
orthodox and an ethnic Serb) and Bosnian Croat. “Bosniak”, “Croat” and “Serb”
are notions that assign ethnicity, and ethnicity is linked to religion – Islam
for Bosniaks, Catholicism for Croats and Orthodoxy for Serbs. But in a
secularized world, how religious are these conflicts? How much are religion and
ethnicity an excuse to redefine power structures? I am not an expert in all of
this, and I am still in the process of getting a hang of it. But it makes me sad. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Visegrad</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> was my first stop in
Bosnia after crossing the border. Coming from Mokra Gora and Drvengrad (Wooden town) in
Serbia, I had a quick stop at <b>Andricgrad (Stone town)</b>, just inagurated 2 weeks earlier -
another artificial town built by Emir Kosturica. It was all brand new, nice and
shiny but there was a stange vibe around...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The project is controversial to say
the least as</span> about 3,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed in Visegrad on or
near the 11-arched bridge. Before the war 63% of the town's 25,000 inhabitants
were Bosnian Muslims and despite the Dayton Peace Agreement, only 5% have come back. The Bosniaks I spoke
to, said that it was built with their blood. Kusturica himself, despite being
born Bosniak is not a favourite figure among the Bosniaks as he renounced
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another 70 km with 4 young Bosnians<br />
driving their fancy car way too fast and<br />
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After Visegrad I went hitch hiking to Sarajevo (<a href="http://gonewiththebackpack.blogspot.com.es/2014/11/bosnia-herzegovina-sarajevo-life-after.html">Me in Sarajevo </a>). I got a few rides and again, some interesting talks. Bosnia was pretty new to me and I wanted to talk to everyone and hear how their life was affected by the war. When people pick up a hitchhiker, they tend to be pretty frank and outright. I know they pick me up because they wanna help (it´s that kind of gratuitous help that is difficult to find in our busy world), they are bored and want someone to keep them company or they´ve done their fair share of hitch hiking in the past. They know I am a stranger and probably will never see me again. So no need to impress me or lie to me. That´s why I believe every word in their stories or at least I believe that they believe them...Especially in a country like Bosnia where the stories are never that happy...<br />
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While hitchiking to Zabljak in MonteNegro a guy from Srebrenica. He told me a bit of the horror that befell there in 95´, losing his brother in the massacre. Their house still stays there deserted and slowly decays in time. Despite of that he was very bubbly and happy with his life. I still remember what advice he gave me: you have to marry for love because that’s the most important in life, I had nothing when I married my wife and now we have everything. He was definitely not rich (a truck driver!!) but happy with his wife and 3 kids. It is so good to see that people who have lost everything can find their way to happiness and others who have everything are always miserable and even make those around them unhappy. Finding happiness should be much simpler.. we just like to complicate things in my opinion.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It is actually the border with Bosnia & Herzegovina but the Serbian entity</td></tr>
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After Sarajevo I headed to the mountains in Montenegro, then Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Greece and a month later I was back in Bosnia&Herzegovina crossing the border with Montenegro (a different one). Officially Bosnia and Herzegovina is a state with two entities - Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation so signs like the one on the left are not unusual.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The typical death notes. Stolac, Bosnia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I got a ride with 7 construction workers from Kotor (Montenegro) to Mostar. I had to eat 3 ice creams, one doughnut, 1 nectarine, had one energy drink and one coffee. There was no way to convince them I didn´t want any of that...Great people!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old and new. Abandoned and rebuilt. Together but divided</td></tr>
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Until the Bosnian war, <b>Mostar</b> was probably the most ethnically integrated city in all of former Yugoslavia.</div>
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But the city became a laboratory for experiments in extreme ethnic engineering. The result is that Mostar mutated into the most divided town in Bosnia, a triumph for the Croatian nationalists who, with their Serbian counterparts, sought to destroy the city and to erase Bosnia-Herzegovina from the map of Europe.</div>
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The most vivid symbol of that Croatian triumph came, when a couple of well-aimed Croatian artillery shells brought the city's masterpiece of Ottoman Turk architecture erected in 1566 <b>Old Bridge</b>, tumbling into the fast green waters of the Neretva. <span style="text-align: justify;">It was rebuilt (using many of the original pieces salved from the depths of the river) in 2004 and is once again the central landmark to the town of Mostar.</span></div>
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The bridge defined Mostar (the name of the city actualy means bridge - most). Its destruction seemed to augur the city's death.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Yes, he jumped! If there no other volunteers, after collecting enough money from the tourists, a local guy jumps from the edge of the bridge. A guy from my hostel was meant to do it to the day after. Only 20 m height! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I took this photo, looked at the result and surprise surprise - found Brandy, who I met in Ohrid (Macedonia) in it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Medina - one of the very helpful and friendly staff in Sky Lounge. Lots of acknowledgment notes the guests have left</td></tr>
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<b>WHAT TO DO NEAR MOSTAR</b><br />
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<b>Pochitelj</b> is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed center and it is worth a visit. Don´t get scared by the steps, it doesn´t take long to get to the fortress or The Hajji Alija Mosque and you keep on climbing at your own pace and relax sometimes to enjoy the views of the village and the river. </div>
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Another sight near Mostar is <b>Kravice waterfalls</b>. Only 40 km away from Mostar is it a must visit. Most hostels in Mostar orginez tours to the Kravice. I made it hitch hiking together with Brandy, was pretty easy and fast. <span style="font-family: 'Avenir Book', serif;">A large lake surrounded in waterfalls, but u</span>nfortunately too crowded in the summer. <span style="font-family: 'Avenir Book', serif;">It’s free to enter, and although the water is freezing, you have free reign to wander everywhere. The water falls, through a series of about 20 falls, 25m and it’s a great way to knock the Bosnian hangover on the head! </span>Water is very blue and freezing but it gets quite hot in summer so it is refreshing. <span style="font-family: 'Avenir Book', serif;">And if you are up to it, you can swim across the ,climb the rocks and jump.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cave and the Monastery</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Coming back to Mostar Brandy and I got a ride with 3 guys in their 60s who were going to check on the bee hives they had nearby. We had a nice chat and before leaving I asked them what etnical group they belonged. The answer was “Does it really matter, we
are Bosnians!” And after I insisted he said he was a Croat and the other two were Serbs.
But he added: I´ve never lived in Croatia, they never lived in Serbia, we are
Bosnians! I liked that answer a lot!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
After Mostar I headed to central Bosnia. My idea was to go and spend a day or two in Jajce region before I head to Croatia. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bosnia is so green and full of rivers. Hitchhiking from Mostar to Jajce I had to ask the drivers to stop every time when a vew like that appeared.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bugojno. Pretty good example of patching bullet holes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Jajce waterfall</td></tr>
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<b>Jajce</b> was built in the 14th century and served as the capital of the independent Bosnian kingdom during its time. It is on the crossroads between Banja Luka, Mrkonjić Grad and Donji Vakuf. Around Jajce you can find the beautiful Great and Small Pliva lakes both equipped with water mills. The most recognizable symbol of Jajce is its magnificent 20 meter high waterfall in the heart of the town. Travelling through the mountain roads to the town may not sit well with some visitors, because the roads are pretty bad, but the scenery is picturesque. A 20 year old boy who gave the last ride to Jajce decided to be my guide and show me around the lakes and sights This way I learnt lots of interesting fact about the area.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Small Pliva lake. I tried too but it was quite slippery and knowing how clumsy I am...came back after 3 meters</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Malo Plivsko Jezero. Looks easy but it is not! Quite slippery! But I did swim in there!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Veliko Plivsko Jezero (Big Pliva Lake)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The watermills </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My "guide" showed me that a bullet<br />
got straight to his mouth!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Last train remains in Jajce</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Apart from Jajce waterfall I caught a group selfie down there :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The Youth hostel in Jajce was fully booked so I was given this dwarf house. Slept quite well actually.</td></tr>
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After Jajce I had to say goodbye to Bosnia and move on to Croatia. There are so many places I couldn´t visit and will make sure I go back soon. I hope.</div>
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A guest post by Ken, an American living on the south coast of Turkey and blogging at <a href="http://www.southcoastofturkey.com/">www.southcoastofturkey.com</a></div>
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<i>"I have had a vision. In this vision the white man is on a super highway to where he knows not. I have seen the end of that highway and it makes me shudder." </i><i style="font-family: inherit;"> John Fire Lame Deer, Lakota Sioux - Seeker of Visions.</i></div>
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This quote by John Fire Lame Deer pretty well sums up why I left the United States in 2006 to live elsewhere. John Fire Lame Deer lived as most native Americans did under the laws of the white man on the reservation. He drank, gambled, womanized, and once went on a several-day-long car theft and drinking binge as a young man, but a chance encounter with a Lakota named White Buffalo Calf Woman served as a turning point in his life with him becoming a wicasha wakan or “medicine man”. <i style="font-family: inherit;"></i></div>
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I believe we all have encounters that are meant to be turning points in our lives. I myself had one of these when I was fortunate enough to begin to see the underhanded ways of the American government firsthand from two Lakota Sioux medicine men named Henry Crow Dog and his son Leonard Crow Dog in the early 1970's. We flew both back to the Rosebud reservation at Wounded Knee when my brother was flying for a charter company in the Dakotas.</div>
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Shortly thereafter, due to a shootout with FBI agents, Henry and his son were arrested as well as dozens of others. It was an obvious frame-up of Native Americans used to end of the American Indian Movement (AIM). What the federal government had not been able to accomplish in a courtroom they did by creating a red flag event which was intended to silence the activists of the American Indian Movement (AIM).</div>
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One of the men at that tribal meeting was <a href="http://www.russellmeans.com/">Russell Means</a>/ a Native American activist, politician, actor, writer and musician who captured national attention when he led the 71-day armed takeover on the sacred grounds of Wounded Knee at South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation. Chief Leonard Crow Dog was with Means when he died on Oct. 22, 2012. “He’s a leader of all tribes, a spiritual leader and a warrior.”</div>
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In Russell Means own words: "Today, as I look across the landscape of the United States of America, the opposite of freedom prevails. Just as we had to battle for freedom for our lands, we had hoped American farmers and ranchers would realize they were next on America's sacrificial chopping block. Over the past three decades, family farm after family farm and ranch after ranch has been auctioned off or sharecropped out to corporations. Self-sufficiency has been replaced by dependency on a malevolent federal government, and the peoples' love of the land has been replaced by personal desperation and self-interest - Freedom of thought has been replaced by a state-run educational system that produces docile, self-absorbed automations that would make Orwell blush. War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. Instead of learning to be critical thinkers, America's youth are conditioned into an ethic of mass consumerism and corporate careerism".</div>
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This is the same corporate run government trying to take control of the worlds food supply via legislation empowering Monsanto and is constantly going to war. </div>
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<b>What does this story of the Native Americans at Wounded Knee have to do with travel?</b> It was the first in a series of incidents and events that marked a turning point in my life - one that led me to leave the United States to live elsewhere. As Russell Means states so eloquently - the US government has sold it's citizens up the river and they're too self-absorbed or brainwashed to even realize it.<br />
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Freedom in America is no longer as the founding fathers had envisioned it. America has been sold to greedy corporations and it has exchanged the welcoming arms signified by the Statue of Liberty for a foreign policy that serves the few at a cost to the majority both home and abroad.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I traveled from America to the Southcoast of Turkey where I found a small village overlooking the Mediterranean Sea where people live no differently than their relatives that preceded them. They live amid the most spectacular natural scenery anywhere in the world with little to no interference from government or corporate self-interests. The residents in this small village do not rely on grocery stores, clothing stores or any outside entities. They are self-sufficient and free of the stresses of modern-day life. Of course they make use of modern technology and conveniences, but to a very limited extent. They have satellite television and internet, but so far these have not convinced them that the world has something better to offer them than what they </span>already possess.<br />
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<b>Candir</b> is nestled in the hills next to the ruins of the ancient city of Kaunos near the tourist resort of Dalyan, Turkey. The village was initially settled around the turn of the century by nomadic Bulgarian Turks. A myth about the film African Queen starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn being filmed in the reed beds at Dalyan is just that - a myth. It was actually filmed on location in Africa in Uganda and Congo, as well as in London studios.<br />
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The village of Candir lies only a few kilometers from the ruins of the ancient city of Kaunos - a sea port on the Mediterranean Sea. Initially Kaunos was a separate state; then it became a part of Caria and later still of Lycia. The ruins of Kaunos is now located about 8 kilometers from the coast due to its recession from silting. I once had the fortune of attending a Sufi whirling dervish performance in the remains of the Kaunos amphitheater. On a beautiful summer evening most of the village walked over to the amphitheater in a candlelit procession to see this performance sponsored by the Turkish government. It was an evening that is imprinted in my memory stronger than almost any others.<br />
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There is a small lagoon on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in Candir. The village always relied on fishing in the sea and would depart for fishing trips from the small harbor in this lagoon. Today there are still small stone vaults cut into the rocks that line the harbor where families would leave burning candles in anticipation of the loved ones return from the sea. It is in this lagoon that modern day tourists are brought on tour boats to see the endangered Caretta Caretta turtles surfacing in the water.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Village life goes on today much as it has ever since nomadic Turks settled the area. Even though many of the families in the village derive their means of support from the tourist industry, their day to day lives have not changed all that much. The fact that the only way to reach the village is by rowboat or by riverboat has helped keep the community from being invaded and changed by tourism. Candir can be reached by driving over the mountain from Koycegiz, but rare is the tourist who is aware of this road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I know many expat Dutch and British nationals who live in Dalyan and wonder how I can live in this quiet - and in their opinion, boring little village. But, the nightlife, bars, restaurants and holiday amenities are just a rowboat ride away without any of the downside changes that toursim brings to an area. Being able to 'commute' into Dalyan on a lazy rowboat often reminds me of all those who believe they're living the good life because they live in places like southern California. I think of them and their commute in their 7-series BMW in rush hour traffic on the PacCoast Highway to get home to their $750,000.00 home after a long tedious day at a job that stresses them out of their skulls. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think of them and all the freedoms they enjoy in the USA and I smile.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When we are still new to travelling, we would
find ourselves admiring an old church, strange architecture or a beautiful
landscape…I still do it…but it doesn´t bring the same emotions that it did at
the beginning . So many waterfalls and sunsets, so many jungle trips, tons of
hikes and more than 80 countries visited…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We start to take all the beauty for granted and
it´s not as exciting anymore. Then we try to go off the beaten track and search
for the roads less travelled. But after a while even that starts to lose its
charm and feels superficial. We want to experience something that would touch
our hearts and make us feel something! That´s how I felt in Sarajevo. I felt
drawn to hear more, to ask many questions, to speak to everyone who would want
to speak to me! It hit me massively. I was swept away by all the emotions I was
capturing, not only in Sarajevo but in whole Bosnia & Herzegovina. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> It´s not
just the beauty of the Old town, the bullet holes all over the city or the whole”
Sarajevo under siege” thing that has struck me that much. It´s the people that make the city so special
and their way of greeting everyone who comes to visit, their pain and hardiness.
Sadness and pride, wrapped in warmth and mystery are distinctive features of
its inhabitants. </span>It´s difficult to describe it but all the visitors feel it. And that yearning they have to move on and leave the war in
the past is so massive but the war is inescapable and constantly tied to the
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town embraces mosques, orthodox churches, cathedrals and synagogues, all within
200 m. The only place in the world where within a block from each other you can
find the four religions so strongly presented. I loved the old town and its narrowed streets, cozy cafes and restaurants. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Not very common but you can still see women with a headscarf. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">One of the cozy cafes in Baščaršija</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">First thing I did was to get to "Bash Charshia" and have a proper <b>cevapcici</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Punjene paprike. Bosnian stuffed peppers<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was my favourite cafe that my host took me to and kept going back there</td></tr>
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The Siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. During the siege, there was nowhere safe for a Sarajevan, not at home, at school, in a hospital, from deliberate attack. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, they had to learn to live in fear of death and hunger, to hate their yesterday’s neigbours and friends but today’s enemies, to start fighting back. </div>
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It was hard to be moved by the beautiful buildings and souvenirs stalls all around while the call to prayer plays in the background and you bump into one of the many graveyards that dot the land...Then you see a young souvenir seller and can´t help thinking what their family had to go through during the war, who they lost and how many cousins they have living in Switzerland and Sweden now....<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sarajevo City Hall was largely destroyed in 1992 after the Serb shelling of the city</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Light floods through the restored stained glass in the Bosnian capital's City Hall. Opened again in 2014</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One more graveyard to the right</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">One of many cemeteries where 10,000 victims of the siege, including at least 1500 children, were laid to rest.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The old bobsled track (Olympics 1984) used as an artillery stronghold.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">I was couchsurfing in Dobrinja, where the sniper fire
and shelling were part of the daily routine during the siege. Dobrinja's only safe sidewalks were
the deep trenches crisscrossing the lawns between apartment buildings. Other
lawns have been turned into cemeteries. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">My host’s family like many others, didn´t
have what to eat, water, electricity, couldn’t go out. And when they did, they had to go through a
hole in the back of the building, connected to a staircase which leaded to the
back alley. Young and old, fat and skinny, anyone and everyone, had to go through that small hole, one by one, for three and a half years! 10 000
Bosniaks dead only in Sarajevo! Only because they were Muslim. I know it wasn’t
easy for the Bosnian Serbs who had to fleed, many of them lost their homes and were
never able to find their identity again. But what the Bosniaks suffered during
the siege is just beyond description.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Scar of the war - 20 years later and huge craters and bullet holes are still present. In Dobrinja, Sarajevo</td></tr>
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The Sarajevo Tunnel was constructed between May 1992 and November 1995, during the Siege in the midst of the Bosnian War. It was built by the Bosnian Army in order to link the city of Sarajevo, which was entirely cut off by Serbian forces, with Bosnian-held territory on the other side of Sarajevo Airport., an area controlled by the UN. The tunnel linked the Sarajevo neighbourhoods of Dobrinja and Butmir, allowing food, war supplies, and humanitarian aid to come into the city, and people to get out. The tunnel became a major way of bypassing the international arms embargo and providing the city defenders with weaponry.</div>
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I spent some time with my host Semsudin and his friends. All lovely people, none of them was religious or cared what my religion was. ILike most of the young people in Bosnia, they didn´t like talking about the war. It´s a topic that has been simmering for years and they were all worn out discussing it. Also, the pain and the sadness of what had happened was still there...I could feel it it, they all lived through it and lost someone or everyone. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Always in 3 languages...but what´s the difference?!?</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now in Bosnia
there are 3 official languages – Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian. All three of
them are practically the same with very small differences…but according to law
everything has to be written in 3 of them. A good example is this box of cigarettes:
for those who don´t know how to read Cyrllic, the Cyrillic version says exactly
the same as the Latin ones, just written in Cyrillic letters. Identical. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The division of Bosnians into ethnonational
groups was <b>the result rather than the cause of the war.</b> Serb, Croat, and Muslim
nationalist politicians sowed mistrust between people who had previously
coexisted peacefully in Sarajevo. Normality dissolved and relationships were
reconstructed as people didn’t know anymore who could be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Same as the country. </span>Officially Bosnia and Herzegovina is a state with two entities - Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation as you can see on the map below.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">At the end of Sarajevo! Still within Bosnia and Herzegovina but the beginning of Republic of Srpska entity</td></tr>
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MY LONG UNKNOWN NEIGHBOUR<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxETLLjYxKw9lQMj7KtlILjyhXDk6kn0h7UQeZRPCJ_xsgTmYhkhZK-iI0xgBTncxuCC-pQ5Z2jMPHDjV-fIY4PGK7ibYm1kCVKzsOy-5Wg10m_X29bla-CRmFKo0y_1YKvJvFA4_OhmvT/s1600/IMG_8501.JPG"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxETLLjYxKw9lQMj7KtlILjyhXDk6kn0h7UQeZRPCJ_xsgTmYhkhZK-iI0xgBTncxuCC-pQ5Z2jMPHDjV-fIY4PGK7ibYm1kCVKzsOy-5Wg10m_X29bla-CRmFKo0y_1YKvJvFA4_OhmvT/s1600/IMG_8501.JPG" width="640" /></a> <br />
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<a name='more'></a>In 2005 New York times published an article called "Belgrade rocks". It opened with the following:<br />
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<i>Along the banks of the Danube and Sava Rivers, serpentine chains of music-blasting splavovi - floating raft clubs - snake into the inky Balkan night. Fortified by huge meat-kebab dinners and Turkish coffees from Belgrade's myriad cafes, crowds of night owls line up to partake variously of Gypsy bands, electronic mixes, rock 'n' roll and a distinctly Serbian hybrid known as Turbofolk."</i></div>
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I don´t think the city has changed much since then. <span style="text-align: justify;">Although some people are interested in history, culture, cuisine - the city has lots to offer to them too. </span>Belgrade city core is not too big. Everything between Kalemegdan, Knez Mihajlova street and Kadarska street is best viewed by foot. </div>
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<b>Kalemegdan.</b> Once important military fortification, it now serves as central park of Belgrade. Accessible from the end of the Knez Mihailova street, it offers beautiful views, especially during sunset. Many boats, floating restaurants, have a look at the sights (like the Kalemegdan) and the city from a different angle, and see where Danube meets Sava...</div>
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I met up with Zok, a couchsurfer from Belgrade, who took me around in his cute old school Fiat. What I liked the most was this place near the shore of Sava river, where it seems all the bums of Belgrade come to have a beer and enjoy the afternoon. I really enjoyed having a beer, sitting on the grass and being away from the pretentious cafes at Knez Mihailova Street.</div>
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Later on, he took me to a place where I had my first "Pljeskavica" in Serbia. Of course I had a few "Bureks with yogurt"...</div>
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On my way to Uzice, I made a stop at the small town of Valjevo, in the heart of Serbia. Very small and very pretty too, known and important for Serbian history. I walked around, had some burek with meat in the park by the river, spoke for a bit to a restaurant owner, waited for a while until the rain stops and started hitchhiking. Didn´t take long until I got the first ride...That was the first of many to come. More that two months around the Balkans, I never took a bus again...That was my way to get know as many as possible people and learn more about the country and what their life was before, during, and after the war until now. So many story, so much loss. Speaking the local language was a plus of course :). </div>
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<b>UZICE</b></div>
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Vesna encouraged me to hitchhike all the way to the end and the few doubts and fears I had before, were completely gone. She was also laughing all the time at my silly questions about the war and ex-Yugoslavia but that´s how I learned...asking and making an idiot out of myself...One thing I learnt travelling the Balkans was that asking the same question, you might get 3 (or sometimes even more) different answers, depending on the ethnics, nationality and nationalism of the person who you ask. The hospitality and willingness to help always stay the same :))).</div>
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A medieval fortress perches on a rock in the west of the city, above the river. Nowadays the fortress remains unexploited by Serbian tourist industry (like Uzice). It consists on the ruins of the old castle, with steep stone walls and terraces like an Inca ruin. It's not in the better conditions, cause have some graffitis and vegetation grows wildly and it doesn't allow you to visit the totality of the castle. But anyway, is free and is worth to visit it specially for the good view you have of the city and the surroundings.</div>
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The beauty of the mountain in the central part of Serbia because of its climate, has been a destination for many people of wealth and leisure since the middle of 17th century.It has attracted those looking for health and the soothing peacefulness of the hills of Zlatibor. It is one of the largest ski, sport and holiday resorts in Serbia. Vesna took me to the less touristic hiking routes and because of the rain it wasn´t that crowded indeed :)!</div>
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Around one hour from Uzice by bus, Mokra Gora is definitely a place to see. First for the Sargan Eight Railway, a lovely little train that goes through the gorgeous mountains of Western Serbia. Second for the ethno-village Dyrvengrad of Serbian film-maker Emir Kusturica, just 10mn walking above the train station. The streets in the village bear the names of various individuals, like Nikola Tesla, Ingmar Bergman, Ernesto "Che" Guevara and more.<br />
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<b>DRVENGRAD</b> - Kosturica´s wooden town, built for his film "Life is a miracle"</div>
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<i>Random facts: Serbia is the world’s largest producer of raspberries.</i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">GUEST POST FROM MARIA</span></i><br />
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<i style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Maria is a travel blogger from Bulgaria. She
blogs at </span></i><a href="http://travellingbuzz.com/"><i><span lang="EN-US">Travelling Buzz</span></i></a><i><span lang="EN-US"> where she is trying to pro<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>ve it is possible to
keep a full time job and to get short travel breaks to dream destinations. She
also focuses on budget trips and experiences. Follow her journey!</span></i></i></div>
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<b>You won’t believe how beautiful Bulgaria is...</b><b> </b></div>
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<b><b> </b></b><b> …unless you see it with your eyes. </b><b><b> </b></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">I love talking to foreigners about Bulgaria.
You know why? Because almost every single thing I say about this small but
charming country in Eastern Europe surprise them in a good way. I think this is
because most of the travellers have not heard anything about Bulgaria. Or even
if they did, it was a bad thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let me tell you that: Bulgaria is beautiful and
young (in spirit) and full of energy! Recently I spoke with one American guy
visiting Bulgaria by chance. He told me what surprised him the most was the
fact that everything was so green here. Another friend of mine, also a
foreigner, told me that people here looks really happy. Well, guys, the country
is really going to surprise you with its beauty and charismatic appearance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let me show you some of the iconic places in
Bulgaria which you definitely have to check out when you visit. There is
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<b>NATURE</b><br />
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<b>1. The Seven Rila Lakes</b><br />
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There are many sights in Bulgaria that can make you admire the perfection of nature. A great example of that are the 7 lakes which lie in the highest Bulgarian and Balkan mountain – Rila. It may be really hard and tiring to get there but the view is worth it.</div>
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The Belogradchik Rocks are another must see sight in Bulgaria. These strangely shaped rock formations are associated with interesting legends. One of them says there was once a girl known for her raving beauty who stopped by a near spring to drink water. But then a dervish attacked her and she started running to the rocks. Suddenly a bear came in front of the girl and she fell on her knees not knowing what to do and how to escape. Then a thunder hit the ground and the three of them – the girl, the dervish and the bear stood in stone.</div>
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There are many waterfalls in Bulgaria. The highest one in the country as well as on the Balkans is “Raiskoto Praskalo” (Heavenly Spray) in the Balkan Mountain. The one on the picture is located near Teteven and is called “Skoka” (The Jump).<br />
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Bulgaria is one of the oldest countries in Europe. As of that fact, there are many places that looks like they are still living a 100 years ago. Let’s take Plovdiv for instance. This is the second largest city in the country and is one of the oldest in the world. An ancient Roman architecture can be still seen in the old town. The most famous is the Ancient Theatre.</div>
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Nestinarstvo is a ritual involving barefoot dance on smouldering embers. It is performed because of a unique mixture of orthodox beliefs and older traditions.</div>
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Kukeri is another interesting Bulgarian ritual. It is performed in order to scare away evil spirits. Costumed men with large bells attached to their belts walk and dance through the village in order to bring good harvest, wealth and health to people.</div>
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On the first day of March Bulgarians give each other white and red adornment. It symbolize health and it is believed that if you wear it you will make the winter pass faster and bring spring. It is worn until the first time a person sees a stork, swallow or blossomed tree like on the picture.</div>
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And finally – Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The city is trying to remain its ancient spirit but is also trying to “catch up” with the present. And that’s what makes it so charming. A nice and interesting mixture of epochs and people will make you want to take the first ride to Bulgaria.<br />
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But don’t get your hopes up. Bulgaria can be tough. Low salaries, corruption… But if you think further, this is not the only place that have these problems. The right way to experience the country is backpacking, away from the buzz and problems and enjoying the wild nature and beautiful sights without skipping the cultural experience.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Balkan Peninsula has always been a crossroads of cultures. It is still so hard for some people to grasp,
the unusual mix of ethnicity, nationality and religion in this part of the
world. </span> Lots of people only relate the
region to the Yugoslavian war in 90s or to Kosturica’s films and gypsy life. There
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My route around the Balkans in less than 3 months</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Born and raised in Bulgaria, I was too busy
exploring much more remote and “exotic” countries to pay attention to what was
happening in my homeland. And somehow
I´ve never been anywhere in the Balkans. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">It is pretty funny, I went 3 times to
New Zealand (18 000km from Bulgaria) but have never been even to Greece
(200km). I’ve been hearing stories from many travellers how amazing the Balkans
are.. and that aroused both curiosity and shame in me. It was time to see my part of the world, to
see something similar to home, something Balkanic. It was decided: summer 2014
was going to be dedicated to the Balkans. Almost 3 months of backpacking, hitch
hiking, couchsurfing; 10 countries, including my own one; Plenty of incredible
stories, heaps of people to remember!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Today there are 12 counties in the Balkans,
including Turkey. And Turkey is the only one I had travelled properly, excluding
short trips to Skopje, Macedonia and Bucharest, Romania. So different but so
similar at the same time. While Croatia and Slovenia have already become pretty
popular amongst travellers over the past couple of years, the other countries
in the region deserve just as much attention, if not more. My absolute
favourite was <b>Albania</b> together with <b>Bosnia</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Despite all the differences in religion,
ethnicity and country, I felt at home everywhere! I´m sure not everyone would agree with my next statement but if I (we, people from the Balkans), have to belong to any culture,
it is definitely the Balkanic one. So many countries but we are all so similar.
We even look the same! I could easily be mistaken for Serbian, Slovenian,
Albanian, Greek, or Turkish…Food and drinks which are such a big part of the
culture, are almost the same just under different name in every country..and of
course, we all think we invented them :). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The <b>music</b> rhythms are also similar. I remember I was at a house party in Uzice, Serbia and the hosts showed me videos of a song that had its version in all the countries in the Balkans. Same song, same melody, only the language changes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Itis
Europe´s forgotten corner but not that forgotten anymore. The summer was at its
height and hostels were fully booked almost everywhere. You have to book in advance if you wanna
be sure you have a bed. Something I hate because it makes me less flexible so I
took my chances which not always turned out to be the best. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I´m not a
city person but there are no real big cities in the Balkans so it wasn´t very
painful going to the big ones. <b>Sarajevo</b>
is without a doubt my favourite one. It has this strange mix of sadness and
beauty which makes you stay longer, ask
lots of questions (even though the locals don´t like talking about the war) and
roam the Baščaršija</span>´s narrow streets and cozy cafes. Maybe that´s why I liked
<b>Prizren</b> (Kosovo) that much, looked like a little Sarajevo to me. Balkan cities
have it all: rapidly changing they have all the comfort that a western city could offer, concerts and festivals, party going
on every night of the week, but also lots of museums, galleries and history,
you will not be at a loss for cultural things to see and do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Belgrade, Serbia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Pula arena in Croatia - 6th largest Roman Amphitheater in the world.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drvengrad (Wooden town) in Mokra gora, Serbia built by Kosturica for his film "Life is a miracle"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andricgrad or known also as Kamengrad (Stonetown) also built by Emir Kosturica in Visegrad, Bosnia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SARAJEVO. My favourite city in the Balkans</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Ohrid, Macedonia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Prizren from the fortress. Kosovo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The famous "Most" (bridge) in Mostar. Herzegovina </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLL-sLQRIAhMaT5IUA29O8vZjQn3grSWrGsVWXkzz52F4HddQDoz1TaDZeYNekT1cYOG93uW-v20alGfRqljYKPg3fbpDZwnGfbJy-69vl72vo7hVpg7BzkJooERzChAdGYhsorKb0md9p/s1600/IMG_0246.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kotor, Montenegro</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ljubljana, Slovenia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zagreb, Croatia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Sarajevo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Rovinj, Istria, Croatia</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>THE SCARS
OF THE WAR</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Self-explanatory. Pristina, Kosovo.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They are
everywhere in the countries of ex Yugoslavia. Everywhere you look. Buildings, people, signs, museums...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">During the war in the 90s, I was still very young
to care and the media wasn´t that powerful as it is today. So I would not
exaggerate at all if I say I had no idea about anything that happened in ex
Yugoslavia before visiting. I think most people didn´t. And it is so sad that just
next door, in Srebrenica in July 1995 more than 8 000 Bosniaks were killed,
known as Srebrenica massacre – the last genocide in Europe. What happened there
is beyond any description and beyond the scope of this post. Unfortunately it didn´t
start or stop there, whole Bosnia was in blood. And not only Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo
also gave its victims. What happened in the war, who fought who, Serbia fought Croatia
fought Bosnia (or whichever way around you would want to phrase it) can´t be
explained even by the people who lived through it. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I was, to put it mildly “shocked” by all the stories
I heard along the road. Since I was only hitchhiking, sometimes to get from one
place to another I would get 10 different rides which means 10 different
stories. Especially in Bosnia - no matter the religion or the ethnic of the
person who picked me up, they all lost someone and something during the war. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Everyone there seems to have
a slightly different version of events and history, and mildly plausible
conspiracy theories run rampant. I´ve heard all three of the sides — Muslim, Serb,
and Croat and got mixed feelings about it but the “Bosniaks” are the ones who suffered the most without a doubt and the ones who got my sympathy and respect. . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">20 years later and huge craters and bullets holes are still present</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another absurd in Bosnia: At the end of Sarajevo...it´s not anywhere near the border with Serbia :(</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">In the center of Belgrade. After the NATO bombing. No victims</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Photographs of Kosovo´s missing. Almost 2000 disappeared in Kosovo during the war</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>BALKAN STYLE. THE CLASSICS</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">In Prizren, Kosovo</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">There are so many things that are typical
Balkanic. And you see them everywhere – no matter if you are in Bulgaria,
Croatia or Kosovo…they vary a bit but the idea is the same. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The <b>food</b>…I guess
we´ll never know who invented the “moussaka”, “shopska salad” or “burek” but
they are present everywhere. Same as the <b>rakija</b> (rakia), in every hostel they
would welcome you with a shot of it, pretty strong for the delicate ones but
you grow up with it in the Balkans. The
gypsies, the electric wire swinging around the houses, hanging laundry from the
windows, death notices, old communist style buildings...limitless hospitality.
All that made me fall in love with the region I grew up but I never explored.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">A modern version of the traditional carriages but some things never change: the whole family fits in it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty common view in the streets of the Balkans </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">More laundry. Kotor, Montenegro</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another classic - electric wires all around</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Also typical - buildings are falling apart, covered in graffiti and street art ...even in Greece</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Death notices. On the trees, electric polls, street signs, doors, buildings. Different if you are Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Monasteries are all over the Balkans. St Naum monastery in Macedonia. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The classic Ćevapčići. They say the best one is in Sarajevo but you can find it all over the Balkans. With yogurt drink of course (ayran)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Tea! In a cosy cafe in Baščaršija, Sarajevo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zastava. Made in Serbia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The beer is never missing, choices change from country to country but it is widely spread and good. Montenegro & Kosovo</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="text-align: left;"> Serbia Greece. The tiniest beer bottle</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>BEACHES</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fishermen at Ohrid lake</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Most people would think of the famous Greek and
Croatian beaches but there is so much more. Of course they are beautiful but way too crowded and expensive in summer. In Montenegro you can still find some hidden from the
tourist spots but Albania was another story…Not as touristic as its neigbours
and not as developed (big advantage in my opinion – no shiny hotels and
resorts on the beach), it has plenty of unbelievable beaches a bit
far from the regular crowds, tucked away among the rocks.</span></div>
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No name beach between Kotor and Budva. Took a while but we found it!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My beach. Lake Ohrid. Macedonian side.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In terms of beautiful beaches-less people Albania is a winner in my opinion! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Drymades beach, Albania</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">North of Stari Grad, Croatia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you go away from the crowds you see that!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Mirtiotissa beach. Corfu island, Greece</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Rock carving in Halkidiki, Greece</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset over the sand dunes at Isus beach, Greece</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Not all the beaches are that idyllic! Ulcinj in Montenegro. One of the busiest beaches I´ve been to. Ever! Not happy!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>MOUNTAINS</b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Meteora. Even Greece is not about beaches only!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Balkans are mountainous, heavily wooded states
with beautiful mountain ranges (highest peak Musala in Bulgaria 2925m above the
sea), plenty of lakes and rivers to swim and fish, lush valleys, gorgeous canyons and stunning caves. There are many national
parks and heaps of hikes for those who are willing to go on adventure. Some are
very easy and well marked and others impossible to follow without a guide. Unfortunately
I didn´t have my camping gear with me so didn´t do much of hiking. There is a
positive side to it though: my backpack was no more than 10 kg, I was so proud
of myself!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Piva canyon, Montenegro. Montenegro must be a winner in Europe for number of tunnels in such a small area</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Crno Jezero. Durmitor National park, Montenegro</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Jaice, Bosnia. Less touristic than Kravice but not less beautiful</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">I travelled everywhere hitch hiking. The only
bus I took was from Sofia to Belgrade. The best decision ever! So many great
people, so many amazing stories, so much hospitality... Serbs, Croats, Bosnians,
Albanians, Kosovars, Macedonians, Greeks, Montenegrins, Slovenians, Bulgarians…They
all had something to add to my amazing Balkan experience and to make it even
more amazing. Luckily, I speak the language (well, changing the words and
expressions a bit), so communicating with locals was not an issue. Only Albania
was a bit tricky because Albanian is not a Slavic language but there I managed
with Spanish/Italian. Never waited more than 2 minutes, never had a bad
experience! People would go out of their way just to help me and to make sure I
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often people who picked me up invited me to their houses or wanted to show me
some hidden places that are not in any book or guides or meet their family over
a cup of tea or lunch. Young and old, Muslim or Christian, men and women…everyone
wanted to help!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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dangerous but it turns out it is the friendliest out of all the countries in
the Balkans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Is it fast? </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Much faster than buses…Proved since
I had a bet with a group of guys who I met In Ohrid and we all were going to
Berat, Albania. They took the bus and I hitch hiked. I left 4
hours after them (I love sleeping) and still made it first, won by 5 minutes
but still won! Beers and dinner on them </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US">! From that moment on, everyone started hitchhiking.
Buses in countries like Albania are so slow because of the roads and usually
there are bad connection between little towns so you waste time waiting for the
next bus. And hitch hiking spare you that plus it is much more exciting and
interesting!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Are you interested now?</b> If you have never visited the Balkans, go before it gets spoiled. The region is changing so fast that in a few years it won´t be the same! </span>It is too late for some countries already but the amount of tourist doubles and triples every year so soon they could be just like any country in Western Europe. I can tell that by looking back at Bulgaria 10 years ago, the coastline was like Albanian one today...and now it so built up with hotels and resorts, everyone is trying to sell you something and the amount of rubbish that goes into the sea is unbelievable. But there are still some hidden spots that only the locals know about and hopefully will stay the same. </div>
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-->Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618964502854469014noreply@blogger.com2Balkans41.8101472 21.09373110000001429.636473700000003 0.43943410000001393 53.9838207 41.748028100000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794388078183670707.post-64811408538476062882014-10-06T01:58:00.000+02:002014-11-25T23:02:04.396+01:00SAILING IN FRENCH POLYNESIA. 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<span lang="EN-GB">The mountainous interior is adorned with deep valleys, clear streams, and high waterfalls. The coastal lands, edged with a rugged coastline, are home to fields of tropical flowers and most of the island's population.</span> I thought it was a combination of Marquesas and Tuamotus but no one else agreed <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Wingdings;">L</span><span lang="EN-GB">.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">After the speedy sailing from Rangiroa (Tuamotus group), we made it to Tahiti ITI (Little Tahiti), Cook bay at Tautira, at the end of the North coast road. The sea was still quite ugly but the bay was pretty well protected. But outside the bay was pretty bad - heavy winds (25-30 knots) and huge swell. We knew we would be stuck here for a while.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB">I´ve already been sailing for almost 2 months in French Polynesia, cruising the islands of Marquesas and Tuamotus <a href="http://gonewiththebackpack.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/sailing-in-french-polynesia.html">Sailing in French Polynesia. Part 1</a> and it was nice to make it to the civilization for a change! Real supermarkets, traffic, internet, people...I can´t believe I missed that!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Got a ride to Taravao and then when wanted to head back the same guy appeared and asked me if I wanna see<b> Teahupoo </b>– where the famous <b>Billabong Pro surf competition</b> take place (part of the tour of 10 world events of the classification WCT). It is at the end of the other road in Tahiti Iti, the south coast road. Of course I wanted. Had to be quick cos in 1 hour he had another work appointment and we had to go back to Taravao.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The steady flow of surf pilgrims every august has allowed openings of many family guesthouses. But it offers more than just ride the waves – exceptional walks, amazing views and complete lack of commercialism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">On the way to Taehupoo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The famous Teahupoo, only a month after the contest. Almost no one surfing now</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I didn’t stay much on the boat cos it was rainy and grey at Cooks bay. Hitch hiking was pretty easy and distances quite short. Before even we left the anchorage (had to wait 5 days before the winds calmed down a bit and let us leave) I went all around the island. Run into Rithy, a French - Cambodian guy I met in Rangiroa and he introduced me to his circle of friends which were lots of fun and took a god care of me. One of them, Cedric, happened to be the editor for the Polynesian Radio 1 and he had the idea to interview me and help me find a boat to NZ. It was fun, I had my 2 minutes of fame on the radio, twice. And also on the radio web site. Actually a guy from the main newspaper contacted me and wanted to meet up and write an article about my adventures around the world but I was already in Moorea when I got the message. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">JP's house (Jean Philippe), right on the beach in Paea</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">JP and Rithy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Marae Arahurahu</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Lidie and Hinano</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The best beer design in my opinion. Hinano Tahiti</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mikela's house in Paea</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">Finally the winds slowed down </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">and we were able to leave. Dropped the anchor for one night at Point Venice and then headed to Marina Taina where everyone was. The time was ticking and I had to find another boat going to New Zealand but I just didn’t want to deal with that yet. Norvic, a boat we´ve been running to each other in Marquesas and Tuamotus was willing to take me with them to NZ via Tonga and Cook island but they were leaving in 2 days and I just started to have fun in Tahiti with the new friends I made. So I decided to take my chances and stay. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">Karaka was also anchored in Marina Taina so I went on a few adventures around the island with some of them. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Marina Taina. The amount of sailboats in front of the marina was even more than appears on this photo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Getting into Marina Taina</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Marina Taina, Tahiti</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The super yachts at the dock at Marina Taina, Tahiti</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Marina Taina</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Fuet d`Olot in Carrefour, Tahiti. Of course I bought one, been a long time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Igor, Louise and Metaki Hou (New wind in Marquesian) from LARKA</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Saw humpback whales from this beach</td></tr>
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<b>Climbing Mt Aorai. </b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Mount Aorai is the second highest peak on the island. Although a trail is leading from Belvedere to the top of Mount Aorai, only experienced and well prepared hikers should consider getting there: the one-way-distance is more than 10 km, more than 1400m in height have to be overcome, and the ridges are knifesharp so that a slip might result in a several hundred meter deep deadly fall.</span> It starts as Le Belvedere and climbs the ridge to Fare Mato (hut), 1600m. From there, the route continues up the ridge and climbs some steep cliffs by way of fixed ropes before reaching the second hut of Fare Ata(1800m). The trail then follows the knife edge ridge to the summit, which is above timberline but the route is steep and slippery especially if it rains and I have the feeling that it always rains on the top.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Asking for directions in the outskirts of Papeete, a French girl gave us a ride to Le Belvedere restaurant which was very nice of her cos there is no transport taking you there and it´s around 10 km. Basically until the first hut it is all normal but after that gets so steep and narrow that is more like rock climbing than hiking. We both hike pretty fast, made it to the second hut in the afternoon and got ready for the night. No one else was there which was nice. It has no beds or other comforts but it is good enough. At least there is a water tank so you can fill up your bottle. There was one at the first hut too (some local kids were staying there for a few days). Gets pretty cold at night though. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Almost there</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Steve going vertical</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The path is not always a path...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Second hut at 1800m. Pretty decent. And pretty cold.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Almost there</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Moorea from Mt Aorai, 2066m</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">As Steve said - the best shitter in the world</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">And no wander - what a view!</td></tr>
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When we made it back to our boats in Marina Taina, all I wanted was to sleep. So tired. I knew my muscles would be sore next days but didn't expect that to last 5 days. But Steve was just like me, so I wasn´t the only soft one. Not when you live on boats with little or no leg muscle exercise.</div>
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Gilles had rented a car for the next day and somehow convinced me to go with him to Papenoo valley. I only wanted to relax the whole day but it was a good chance to see the valley, the only place in Tahiti I didn´t have the chance to see so far. I couldn´t say no. It was pretty scenic too and I don´t regret it even though I wanted to die every time I had make more than 5 steps.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Papenoo valley</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">It would've been easier with a 4x4 vehicle but Gilles is trained from Africa so we keep going</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Photo of the photographer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">I know I'm already getting annoying with all these beer photos but I really like the design</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Ok, last one</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Lunch time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">One of the three cascades, went there again with Gilles</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Craft market in Papeete</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Black pearls, sea shells, flowers and traditional weaving products</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Getting fuel at the fuel dock and sailing to Moorea</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The speed boat between Tahiti and Moorea<br />
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<b>MOOREA</b><br />
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The weather was pretty weird so we dropped the anchor at Vaiare bay, near the Sofitel hotel, the closest anchorage to Tahiti. There were only 3,4 other boats. We saw a female whale and a bay inside the pass. I went with Steve exploring the beaches and we ended up staying at this awesome homestay, near the airport. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Vaiare bay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Vayare bay, Moorea</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The homestay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The room for only 7000 CFP (80US$) and a kichen outside</td></tr>
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Zack was staying with some locals on<b> Motu Fareone</b> and we headed that way two to be completely isolated for a few days. <span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;">T</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;">he motus </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;">are small islets that were formed on the coral reef encircling the lagoon</span>. </span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are no roads here, only coconut groves, white coral’s sand beaches, sunsets that set fire to endless horizons and marine worlds too spectacular to capture in words</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Ives, whom we visited, has no fresh water source, no electricity, not even a toilet. But he is happy and free and guests are always welcome to his little paradise. We brought water, beers and some food and had 2 amazing days only snorkeling, talking to these interesting people, eating coconuts and crabs...simply enjoying simple life.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">A little visitor I found in the tent</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">No toilet, no shower, no electricity. But happiness</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Oponuhu bay, Moorea</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Every day they train</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">KM 3. Along the road are Kilometers markers from 1 to 35, all have the shape of the island</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Both bays from Belvedere lookout - Opunohu bay on the left and Cook´s bay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Oponuhu bay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">From Belvedere. Cooks bay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Pineapple plantations</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Joined them for some drinks while waiting for my ride</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Leaving Moorea</td></tr>
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<b>HUAHINE</b><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Despite being blessed with untouched beaches, isolated coves, enchanted lagoons, killer reef breaks and many</span><span lang="EN-GB"> marae </span><span lang="EN-GB">(traditional temples), Huahine has managed to escape the rampant package-tourist overdevelopment afflicting neighbouring isles. There's only one real luxury resort and locals aren't keen on developers' plans to construct any more.</span> <span lang="EN-GB">Huahine </span><span lang="EN-GB">is actually two islands joined by a short road</span><span lang="EN-GB"> bridge. What I loved here was the amount and variety of fruit available everywhere. The locals were nice and generous as always, not as used to foreigners as in Moorea or Tahiti.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The route so far in Tuamotus and Society islands</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Fare is where we anchored the first night after a few hours stop in Maroe bay (in between the two islands). It is where the banks, post office, roulettes, cybercafés dive centers and the big supermarket are. It is nothing like a big town but it is still a lively village and every morning you can observe the local life while meeting farmers and fishermen who come to sell their products in the village center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Freshly picked them myself from the plantations</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Gilles after waking up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The cashier in the supermarket in Fare</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The bridge between the islands</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">I suprised Gilles and myself too husking this coconut with bare hands</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Locals singing and dancing at Avea bay</td></tr>
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We stayed at Avea bay near Parea a bit longer since it wa really beautiful and calm anchorage.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I cycled around the little island (Haunhine Iti), took me more around 2,5 hours. It reminded me of Marquesas, so much fruits everywhere. Unfortunately mangoes weren’t ready yet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">I think I picked the yellowish one. In 2 days was ready.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The famous blue eyed eels in Faie. It is a killer to go there by bike - massive 2 km hill and back!</td></tr>
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<b>RAIATEA</b><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">This part of French Polynesia is the sailor’s paradise called <b>Leeward Islands</b> ‒ because these islands are downwind from Tahiti. Most famous is Bora-Bora, but others offer similar exceptional sailing experiences. Charter yachts are based on Raiatea, which lies in the same lagoon with tiny Tahaa. The fourth island is Huahine where we just came from.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It was a few hours sailing from Huahine and as soon we dropped the anchor at Faaroa valley, at the mouth of the river, we took the dinghy on the river. It is the only navigable river in French Polynesia and it was pretty wild. Faaroa river was calm but the vegetation around reminded me of the rain forests in the Amazon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We made it to marina Apoiti next day where my next boat was anchored. Gilles was going to spend the cyclone season (till March) in French Polynesia and I had to move on. Means: find another boat to New Zealand before it gets too late. Sorsha was my new boat. It was my last day on Samara II. Thank you Gilles for all that lovely time I spent on SAMARA II, it was the best boat I've been to with the best captain! </div>
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10<sup>th</sup> of October – I changed boats again. Sorsha – my 3<sup>rd</sup> boat. I didn't get to go to Bora Bora (just next door) but after seeing so many paradise islands for the past 3 months wasn't a big loss.</div>
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I spent next few days exploring the island, again with the help of the locals and was pretty much entertained.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Went hunting for fruits and the first car that picked me up offered to take me to some plantations on the other side of the island. It was Sunday and the guy had ll the time in the world. It was a good practice for my French too. Picked plenty of grapefruits, papayas and coconuts for the crossing, cooled down in a nice river and got a free tour around the island. Also was given some weed for the boat for free, which made Sorsha´s crew even happier. I gave him 2 packs of cigarettes that I still had form Panama and thanked him for all the help.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">In a local fruit plantation, Lulu gave us some local delicacies and home made alcohol</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I bought a new hammock in Panama and it is still new. Doesn't matter how hard I tried, people in French Polynesia never let me use it and always took me to their houses. Every island, every random person I meet.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">16<sup>th</sup> of October 2013 – I left French Polynesia direction Tonga after 3 months of cruising the islands. I will always remember those picturesque landscapes, sharks, pearls, the most beautiful beaches I've seen but above all, the hospitality and generosity of the people on the islands who genuinely wanna make you happy. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I have always hated my birthdays!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Last year I was on a sailboat, somewhere in the
Pacific Ocean between Panama and French Polynesia, sailing with another 6 on
board but none of them knew it was my birthday. No internet, no cell phones, no
way anyone could contact me. And I loved it, I figured that’s the only chance
in life I could have a birthday like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This year I had to go to a wedding in Bulgaria in June </span>(I was a bridesmaid) and it was a great excuse to leave a bit earlier and avoid all of the birthday hassle. Instead of
getting a flight straight to Bulgaria, I did what I do best. Got a flight to
Greece and had no idea how I´m gonna get to the north-east Bulgaria
for the wedding but had a week to figure it out. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Surprisingly, my best friend
Tania decided to come down to Greece and celebrate it with me. I can’t remember
the last time we were travelling together and that made me extremely happy. Two other
friends came along with her and we had a full car for the weekend! It was one of my favourite birthdays so far
actually! Simple and with favourite people!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I landed in <b>THESSALONIKI</b> on June 13<sup>th</sup>! I’m pretty good at
finding cheap flights (years of experience) and can proudly say that that one
cost me the modest amount of 29 euros, Barcelona to Thessaloniki. Bus #78 takes
you from the airport to the center for only 1€ but if it is exteremely packed
while it is extremely hot you don´t have to pay it – that´s what a Greek guy
Stefanus I met on the bus told me. So the bus was free (I couldn´t get to the
driver and buy a ticket anywas, was so packed!). Got off at Aristotelus, the
main square in town and went to Stefanus´friends house for a drink and to get
some tips where to go, what´s less touristic and worth to visit. Got quite a
lot of insight info about the beaches and campsites in Halkidiki where we
were planning to go anyways. And they also invited me to join them at his
firend´s beach house after my friends are gone.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Stefanos kept me company all the way to the
hostel “STUDIO ARABAS”. It was almost 1am but typically in a Greek style the room
wasn´t ready. I was dead. You save money on those cheap Ryanair flights but
they could be are pretty exhausting, especially if you have to get up at 4am!
Although people at the hostel were nice and friendly. I took a nap and went for a walk until
my friends arrive. </span></div>
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The hilly streets leading to the hostels </div>
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<b>METEORA</b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEPj33HXPfvgNlw1_f1Plf85Q7SQUsHy6Kbbywa-KefzAK1CUxOJts8CwbOWrCSVrDtRUx8Y3kVdMg__GZ3d6yCxJfVNtuIvy8_LpzwsSE6QJSIohPXq9MbMj2LNJQb_4XFkA12nPH-2XA/s1600/IMG_8056.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEPj33HXPfvgNlw1_f1Plf85Q7SQUsHy6Kbbywa-KefzAK1CUxOJts8CwbOWrCSVrDtRUx8Y3kVdMg__GZ3d6yCxJfVNtuIvy8_LpzwsSE6QJSIohPXq9MbMj2LNJQb_4XFkA12nPH-2XA/s1600/IMG_8056.JPG" height="400" width="300" /></a><span lang="EN-US">Spectacularly perched atop rocky pinnacles in Thessaly, the Meteora<span style="text-align: start;"> monasteries are among the most striking
sights in Greece. Built on sandstone megaliths that rise up to 550 m from the
valley floor, the first of these dates to the 14th century. Now accessible by
road and bridge, earlier monks and pilgrims had to rely on ladders and baskets
raised by winches to reach the top.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The name Meteora (Μετεωρα) is Greek for "suspended
in the air," which perfectly describes them. Out of all the 24 monasteries,
only 6 remain today.</span> Of these six, four are inhabited by men, and
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<span lang="EN-US">Thessaloniki to Meteora is about 300 km, we took the coastal road and it
took us a bit longer than the way back. Kalampaka, the village nested just
below Meteora looked pretty nice and only if my friends didnt have to work on
Monday we would have stayed at least one night...Meteora, 6 of them are open
for visitors. We went to the biggest and most visited one Great Meteoro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Made famous by James Bond, this is perhaps the most dramatically positioned Meteora monastery. It is perched atop a slender pinnacle and accessible only by 140 steep steps</span></td></tr>
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After Meteora we drove back to Thessaloniki and Halkidiki (probbaly another 400 km). Shaped like Poseidon’s trident and sticking out into the Aegean Sea, <b>Halkidiki</b> is quite visited in summer but it was early June so we were hoping it wasn´t that bad yet.</div>
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Stefanus recommened some free campsit<span style="font-family: inherit;">es that are not as touristic as the others and when he showed me the photo of the mermaid carved on the rocks...I was sold! Stefanus´instructions were: Halkidiki, second leg, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">campsite Kavourotrypes, 10 min drive after Zografu
beach or 2 min after Armenistis camping you will get to an open space, rubbish bins and some cars, so there...And we found it! And it looked amazing! Great present for my birthday!</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarti. Another place in Halkidiki</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beach in Sarti</td></tr>
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So... my friends left, I guess some people work...I couldn´t have had a better birthday, so happy they came over. They dropped me off in Thessaloniki before heading back to Bulgaria. </div>
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Time for Plan B. Got in touch with Stefanus and I stayed the night at their place in Thessaloniki and next "morning" we left to Anestis house in Metamorfosis, Halkidiki. </div>
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I had an amazing time with those guys. It was 4 of them and me. All we did is to sleep till late, go to the beach and back to the house when the football matches start, around 7ish. It was the World cup so I offered to cook while they watch the matches...No one complained. The ping pong table and Foosball in the basement were quite entertaining too. Don't wanna mention that I kicked everyone's ass at both!</div>
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And the biggest surprise was the basement:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beach day #1 with Greek friends</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beach day #1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Beach day #2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arrived. Beach Day # 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another beach just for us! Water was pretty clear for spear fishing but....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only creature my Greek friends managed to spear :)) We had a bottle of cold Bulgarian "Menta" at least!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Saying goodbye to them</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tired after all that spear fishing :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">My train</td></tr>
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As much as I liked being on the beach, it was time to go if I wanted to make it for the wedding. Left my Greek friends exactly the way they look on the photo above and hitch hiked to Thessaloniki (only 100 km). It was fast and easy. I stayed again in Studio Arabas. </div>
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Took the train to Sofia, leaves at 6.55 am and gets to
Sofia at 2pm, costs 17€, it is pretty comfortable and clean, slept all the
way through.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Train station in Thessaloniki. Plenty of graffiti again</td></tr>
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Aruba is beautiful, no doubt about it! But is it for me? Noooo, of course not! It´s exactly the kind of place I usually try to avoid...Lots of Americans, all inclusive resorts, full of fat old people lying in beach chairs in front of their hotels...And the other side of it - big noisy clubs and discotheques everywhere, full of drunk, young and not that young Americans..</div>
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I had it stuck in my head already that while in Venezuela (<a href="http://gonewiththebackpack.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/venezuela-dead-or-alive.html">Venezuela with Chavez alive</a>) I will go to one of the Dutch islands next to it - Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire and there was no way someone talks me out of it! I went to Coro, Venezuela with the idea of finding a boat to one of the islands but talking to the locals I decided not to risk it. Since there is no official service by boat to the islands, it was going to be illegal and the risk of being caught just for the excitement of adventure and saving a bit of money was not worth it. So the other option was by plane. </div>
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I went straight to the airport in Punto Fijo with the idea to get on a flight to Aruba. Spent almost the whole day there taking the unfriendly attitude of the girls working at Tiara Air. Finally there was a seat left for the last flight that day so I got on the smallest plane I´ve ever taken. Another “You need a visa” story happened as usual until they spoke to someone a bit more intelligent to realize I was right and finally after a long day of endless waiting and frustration I got the plane ticket in my hands. The whole pleasure takes 15 minutes and costs 100 US $ return (you actually see the island, it is so close).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Such a little plane, I think we were only 20 passengers</td></tr>
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I was quite lucky to find a host on CS (couchsurfing) because there are no hostels in Aruba or a backpacker´s guesthouses and it is so expensive. Hugo from Mexico had his night shift at Señor Frogs when I arrived (got a ride from the airport to the restaurant by an immigration officer).</div>
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Being a manager at one of the busiest bars/clubs on the islands, Hugo was an exemplar host. He felt responsible for keeping me fed and entertained by giving me lots of the restaurant´s meals, drinks and gift certificates for snorkeling, cruises etc.</div>
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I will repeat myself but its not exactly my kind of place – very glossy and shiny, full of resorts and 5 star hotels and heaps of Americans but since I was staying only for 2 days (well, that changed later on), it was fine. The beach was the typical Caribbean beach – white sand and crystal blue water but all the hotels kind of ruin it. That´s just me though, I`m sure most of them had their perfect holiday there. That´s why there are things for all tastes. I just wished I went to Curacao or Bonaire which are a bit more laid back and maybe not backpacker´s like but at least for young people.</div>
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All locals (about 100 000 people) speak fluently 4 languages – Dutch (official), English and Spanish (pretty well too) and Papiamento. They all live off the tourist´s wallet and maybe 1% produces Aloe vera <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span>.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Went snorkeling on this boat. with lots of Americans and limitless booze. Wasn´t the best snorkeling I´ve done..I guess there were way too many boats so most of the fish got scared away</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I got so wasted on my second night…Hugo opened a bottle of Mezcal that he brought from Mexico and together with endless number of Margaritas I had, the result wasn’t nice. I remember Hugo driving me back home and me puking out of the window, so embarrassing, haven’t done that since I was 19. I ended up missing my flight next day back to Venezuela but it`s also because they changed it from 4,30 pm to 10am and they informed me leaving a voice mail on Hugo´s mobile which we got at around 10pm the night before, right when we were busy with the mescal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But anyways, I went to the airport to catch my original flight, innocently pretending I never got the message and ready to fight tooth and nail to get a discount for the new flight I needed to buy (or at least the fine I had to pay). Imagine my surprise when instead, they gave me a room in a 4 star hotel by the beach, vouchers for taxis from and to the airport, big value vouchers for restaurants and changed my flight for free for next day, same time. I couldn`t believe my luck. Went straight to my hotel (never had such a big bed all for myself) and spent the rest of the day recovering from my hungover in bed, watching films with a quick break for dinner. So instead of a cheap backpacking style holiday in Aruba I got all the treats that one could want and all for free. Real lucky!</span></div>
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Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618964502854469014noreply@blogger.com4Aruba12.52111 -69.96833800000001712.273091 -70.291061500000012 12.769129 -69.645614500000022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794388078183670707.post-66203703104185229002014-09-13T14:33:00.001+02:002014-09-13T15:25:06.347+02:00JERUSALEM AND RAMALLAH. Arabs and Jews. Opposing but similar. Together but divided<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<i>It may be called the City of Peace, but no other city has been more bitterly fought over than Jerusalem.</i></div>
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Jerusalem is a divided city in a divided land. And at its heart, is the Old City, itself divided into Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Armenian quarters.</div>
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It is home to Judaism's holiest site, Islam's third holiest (after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia) and the spot where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified. Control of the area is one of the toughest issues facing anyone trying to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians.</div>
I have seen young men, one Jewish, other Muslim talking in the friendliest possible way and saying a goodbye with a hug but .. relations are not often so cordial.<br />
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I stayed near Damascus Gate with Shakar, a friend of Indie who hosted me in Tel Aviv. He took me all around the Old city but what i liked the most was the Muslim quarter and its cafes, souvenir shops and shisha bars. It is a maze of twisty alleyways but even getting lost is fun. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Jerusalem is 60 kilometers (37 mi) east of Tel Aviv and the
Mediterranean Sea. On the opposite side of the city, approximately 35
kilometers (22 mi) away, is the Dead Sea, the lowest body of water on Earth. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Most first-time visitors to Palestine will stick to highlights like the
Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Old City and Mount of Olives in
Jerusalem, and Tel Es-Sultan and Quarantine in Jericho. </span><span lang="ES">Bit I decided to go
to a bit less visited Ramallah. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>RAMALAH</b></span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaehoQ4EqFc9pqQLDQcgyGtOtGhWtS8Peu60X7DHp92H6e6TCIEeSK5lljCyoqY164JLf9vXvnGYsWR9jQe6FJhYP-PCkkXyZCiKH7lDzs_vtTD-_jK2-VZ0UgAzXrfC5Xk4CfizdY9RgC/s1600/IMG_7353.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaehoQ4EqFc9pqQLDQcgyGtOtGhWtS8Peu60X7DHp92H6e6TCIEeSK5lljCyoqY164JLf9vXvnGYsWR9jQe6FJhYP-PCkkXyZCiKH7lDzs_vtTD-_jK2-VZ0UgAzXrfC5Xk4CfizdY9RgC/s1600/IMG_7353.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US">It is only 15 kilometers
north of Jerusalem. The urban growth of the city has had a particularly marked
cultural and recreational flavor. It boasts a lively nightlife, with many
restaurants, bars and discotheques that have cropped up in Ramallah in the last
three years.</span> International presence is highly recognizable as the city
hosts many Representation Offices and International Non-Governmental
Organizations. Unfortunately I didn´t see any of this. It was so heavily raining that
the only thing I could do was to hide inside a durum place and try to speak to
random Palestinians… It was only going to guess worse since the forecast for
the night was snow…Snow in the desert! So I headed back to Jerusalem, pretty
cold and wet.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One thing is clear - they love their gold here</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I hid here from the rain for a while :(</td></tr>
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<b>Back in JERUSALEM. Snow in the desert.</b><br />
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The couch</div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I got back to Jerusalem from the </span></span><a href="http://gonewiththebackpack.blogspot.com.es/2014/07/israel-tel-aviv-and-ein-gedi-so.html">Dead Sea</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and was “lucky” to see
Jerusalem in white. Jerusalem in Gold was turned into Jerusalem in White for 2
days due to the snow storm that hit the country. I had another host, Daniel and his flatmates. There was 2 other couchsurfers from Check republic too so we had a full house. The more, the merrier!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Since we had no other option but stay in the house, there was lots tea time, stories from South America (we all backpacked there) and my regular questions about everyone's background and family story...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The balcony. It is snowing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hunger in the house</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Since the Uni was cancelled..Movie time</td></tr>
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The road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv was closed both directions. I started to get a bit worried since I had a flight to catch in Tel Aviv at 6am next day and I had to make it to Tel Aviv somehow. Luckily later in the afternoon it was open. Still had to make it to the center by foot, everything seemed to be collapsed in the city – no buses, no school, no university…</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fallen trees and broken umbrellas everywhere</td></tr>
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Israel surprised me so much. Positively. The week I spent here was extremely short for all the beauty the country has and all the stories people can tell you. I need to come back and see more, talk to more people, go to more Palestinian territories... Soonish and hopefully not while snowing :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tiverias and Sea of Galilee</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">When I was in Cartagena, Colombia, a year ago, I went with a group of
backpackers to Playa Blanca, where we stayed for a couple of days! One of
people was Uria, an Israeli guy, a bit different from the regular Israeli crowds,
interesting and easy to talk to. The second night on the beach while having
dinner, just by chance, Uria was sitting next to two brother from Palestine!
And all three of them were drinking beers together and there was no sign of
hostility. It was pretty interesting to follow their conversation and see how
despite the conflict and nationalities, we are all human after all. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">My time in Israel was very limited but when Uria invited me to visit him
in the kibbutz, I didn´t think twice. He lives in Afiqim, right next to Tiverias
and the Sea of Galilee (which is actually a fresh water lake. This is where
Jesus calmed the stormy sea and walked on the water). I only spent one night in
the kibbutz but Uria tried to show me as much as possible around it and even
made some Yemeni food (his origin is Yemeni). We made an attempt to go to the
hot springs near the kibbutz only men were allowed because it was Monday and
the extremely religious Jewesh Orthodox would go in it. That was the first time
I realized how similar Israel is to some Muslim countries I’ve been to in
certain things (dividing women and men for example).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Somewhere in the hills. Shit weather though</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">The kibbutz was also very beautiful, green and tranquil. They all knew
each other and the ones who didn’t speak English when asking for directions
spoke Russian so no problem with communication there. Also no one locked the
houses for my surprise which was also pretty nice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My bus ride from Tel Aviv to Tiverias took
forever, stopping anywhere to drop off and pick up soldiers so I discarded the
option of taking buses again. The new destination was Jerusalem and I just
switched to hitchhiking mode again. Hitch hiking is very common in Israel. Some people even go to work or school every day hitch hiking. There is usually a known spot in every town where you just wait for your ride. You don´t even need to put you thumb up, people know and just stop and offer to take you if you go same direction. Pretty good system I think!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After a few short rides I got a ride with a guy who was quite
interesting and was willing to tell me all about his childhood, life together
with Arabs, his denial to go to the army again…We kept talking and he even made
a short stop so I take some photos of the desert. He dropped me off somewhere
on the highway and turned direction Ariel, a small town where he was studying.
Once he left I realized I’ve must have dropped my camera in the car. Two and a
half years around the world, I managed to not lose it or get robbed and 3 days
before going back to my homeland, I lost it. And the only thing I knew about
him was that he studies Electrical Engineering in Ariel, didn’t know his name,
didn’t even remember what colour the car was, nothing! And all the photos from
last 3 countries (New Zealand, Japan and Israel) were lost, no backup! Such an
idiot I thought! All at the end of my trip! I kept telling myself I have to get
it back, there must be a way, I´ll find him…So instead of going to Jerusalem I
started hitch hiking to Ariel (wherever that is)…The landscape was amazing
though - white desert rocky mountains, I so needed my camera.. Wasn’t that
easy, had to cross Palestinian and Israeli territories, which made it more
complicated (Palestinians are not allowed to drive in some areas, Israelis are
not either in others, there were border controls too…) but I made it. When I
finally got to building Number 12 (Electrical Engineering) of Ariel’s University
and was thinking of a plan how I’m gonna find him…And then the first person I
saw was him! I couldn’t believe my luck! You can imagine my euphoria screaming “I
found you, I found you”! He was quite confused seeing me after having left me 3
hours earlier on the highway to Jerusalem. We found my camera stuck between the
seat and the door, I must have dropped it somehow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I knew it before but now I am even more convinced that everything is
possible when you believe it. Even to follow your ride across a country of
conflict, with almost no chance to succeed! But it worked!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It was no problem getting a ride to Jerusalem from Israel...plus I was the happiest person in the world, who would refuse to give me a ride seeing me so happy :)</span></div>
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Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618964502854469014noreply@blogger.com0Afikim, Israel32.680564 35.57772999999997432.667199 35.557559999999974 32.693929 35.597899999999974tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794388078183670707.post-37521165689123837572014-07-20T17:39:00.004+02:002014-07-20T21:23:49.740+02:00ISRAEL. TEL AVIV, DEAD SEA AND EIN GEDI. SO DIFFERENT FROM THE MEDIA IMAGE<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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December 2013<br />
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Israelis are if not
the most, one of top 3 most hated nationalites for travellers. I remember in
South America even seeing signs in front of hostels "NO ISRAELIS"!
They are usually pretty young, travelling in big groups and knowing nothing
about life, sharing and respect to others. It is understandable considering
that the majority do their gap year after the army, so they never shared flats,
studied and travelled before. And 3 years in the Israeli army (2 for girls)
could be quite exhausting (in any possible sense). That´s why I didn´t have big
expectations from the country or at least the people. And that was my biggest
surprise! Everyone is so nice, despite the religion and colour, also very
generous and helpful!<br />
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Everything started
at my arrival at the airport. After being questioned for a while about all the
visas to Muslim countries I had in my passport (with an emphasis on Iran of
course!), I was given a piece of paper with Israeli visa on it. They are nice
enough not to put a stamp in your passport and make you forget about your
future visits to other countries in the Middle East. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It was almost 1 am
when I was finally out and called my host Indie who came to pick me up. He even
borrowed a car from a friend in order to pick me up (there are no buses that
late)! So nice of him! I had so many questions about Israel and luckily Indie
didn´t mind answering any of them! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My host Indie is vegan as many Israelis. I am not but I loved the breakfast :)</td></tr>
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<b>TEL AVIV</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Tel Aviv reminded me of Barcelona! Beaches, street bars and cafes, host of young people…I roamed the streets, tried local food, enjoyed the homey atmosphere. I was surprised how good the food is, all the veggies and fruits are local produce (even bananas) and were really tasty. Don´t even wanna mention the bread and hummus.<br />
I also met up with my good friend Petra who now lives in Israel and another guy from Couch surfing. But since my time in Israel was limited, I had to get moving.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First sight of the beach....and a full moon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beach in Tel Aviv</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jaffa is the southern, oldest part of Tel Aviv, an ancient port city in Israel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jaffa at night</td></tr>
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<b>Dead Sea. Ein Gedi kibbutz.</b><br />
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Dead sea is
between Palestine and Israel to the west, and Jordan to the east. And it is
Earth’s lowest elevation on land, 420m below sea level. It is second saltiest
body of water after lake Asal in Djibuti. It is 9 times saltier than the
Meditarrenian sea. You really can not sink…</div>
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There is only one rule: only float
on your back and don’t try to swim normally (stomach first). The most popular
photo is holding a newspaper while floating. I wasn’t an exception <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span>. Didint cover my body with mud though (only
because didn’t have time!). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Since hitchhiking
was so organized in Israel and buses so slow, I decided to go to Dead sea that way. My CS host in Jerasulem Shakar said
he wanted to join me. We had a ride with quite of few cars and all possible
kinds – Arabs, extreme Jewish Orthodox, not religious Jews … We got to a point
that Shakar was translating for me and asking our driver (an young Arab
Israeli) whether he minds that he (Shakar as a Jew) is in the car…And he didn’t
of course and didn’t mind answering all of my silly questions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shakar peeing photo in Jerusalem</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I guess I shouldn´t take photos of someone peeing</td></tr>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And of course the Dead
sea…When we finally made it to the shore, it was pretty cold but I had to go
inside. Changed into bikini quickly, Shahar had to do it in his underwear we
jumped in. Well, not really jumping of course…surprisingly the water wasn’t
cold at all…the problem is when you get out.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That guy kept on reading the whole time he was in the water. Maybe he just wanted to read.</td></tr>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After all the fun, Shakar
found himself a ride back to Jerusalem and I made my way to the kibbutz of Ein Gedi. </span></span>Maybe not everyone
knows what a kibbutz is so before I start I will shortly explain. Although it seems lost in
the mists of time, it really isn’t so long ago that the mention of Israel did
not immediately prompt the associations “occupation,” “conflict,” “terror,” or
“Palestinians.” The word that popped into one’s mind when the topic of Israel
came up was always “kibbutz.” Based on a measure of economic equality and
cooperation between the members, a kibbutz is a collective community
that was traditionally based on agriculture. Volunteering on a kibbutz is
a tradition that thousands of adventurers from all over the world have
undertaken from the founding of Israel until today. Today the
volunteers don’t come anymore and the kibbutzim are just like any other village
but the spirit stays.</div>
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Ein Gedi is by far my
favourite place in Israel. And my host Gili was so warm and welcoming that I
was so unhappy with myself that couldn’t stay longer. The kibbutz was so
beautiful, even better than the one in Afiqim. Gil told me when the volunteers were here, Ein Gedi was full of young people from all around the
world, sharing everything they have – food, work, money, music…And everyone loved that time, no matter the age.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gil´s house in Ein Gedi</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Random Russian-Israeli musicians that Gil saw in front of the house and invited for a jam session</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still with the mud from Dead sea but she had a beautiful voice</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ein Gedi kibbutz</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Veiw from Ein Gedi</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ein Gedi</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They just run free in the kibbutz</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dead sea from the kibbutz</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I promised myself that I will be back to Israel soon and see the rest and also spend more time in Ein Gedi. I was sure that I will be back before the summer of 2014. But there is so many places that I wanna see that seems that I rather go somewhere I´ve never been before...So it still stays on the bucket list!</span></div>
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Nara, Japan’s ancient capital, has long been in the shadow of Kyoto. Yet, it deserves the attention of tourists who are visiting Kyoto or Osaka. It predated all other cities in Japan. It’s a more intimate peep into the old Japan. From Kyoto or Osaka, Nara is a quick 40-minute train ride. It can be explored on a day and better seen on foot.<br />
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After 7 months in the ocean I needed something a bit more challenging than taking a regular bus or train. Wanted to meet some interesting people and was told that hitch hiking in Japan is not that common. So hitch hiking it is! I just couldn't leave the city, there was nothing like end of it...just another village stared and I had to put my thumb up kind of in the city which is not ideal but after 20 min of waiting, an old guy pulled over and said that he can take me only half way where his house was. He was around 70, an ex air force officer who spoke perfect English. He told me all about his family and kids, his travels round Europe, taught me words in Japanese and took me all the way to Nara at the end. We only stopped at his house for a minute so he tells his wife about the unexpected guest from Bulgaria, who needs to be taken to Nara. It was a matter of honour and hospitality for him to help me out and he refused to take money for the road tolls. So I got my touch of adventure and met an interesting person who taught me more about the country. I regret now that I didn´t take a picture of him!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Off to Nara</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Just got dropped off. Deers everywhere</td></tr>
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Stayed in Takama guesthouse, very pleasant and clean, typically Japanese dorm style guesthouse, near the train and bus staions, also easy to walk to Nara park. The owner didn´t speak much English but was very friendly and willing to help you with everything. The beds were so comfortable, don´t know if the mattress was a special kind but I slept like a baby.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Easy to decide :)</td></tr>
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At Nara Park, the ever-present deer – hundreds of them gently hustling for cookies, some just too stuffed with the 150-yen treats to bother. <br />
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I have always found stop signs fascinating! Even when I was a little girl in my hometown in Bulgaria! I still remember first time I saw it...I was in the car in front of my grandparent’s house and the sign was only a few meters away. I asked my parents what GTOR means. That’s how STOP would sound (well, kind of) when you only know how to read Cyrillic alphabet and you are 6 . We use Cyrillic alphabet in Bulgaria (comes from Bulgaria by the way!) but we have the regular STOP signs so no wonder a little girl who just learnt how to read found it difficult to understand. I remember my parents laughed a lot!</div>
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I hope you enjoy my little collection and feel free to send me any others I don´t have. When I was in Southeast Asia I forgot completely to take photos of them and as far as I remember all the countries in the area have their own version...And Africa of course, I´ve seen some really cool stop signs from African countries but for now the continent is still on my bucket list. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Friend of mine sent me this one, knowing my fond of stop signs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And a normal one in Koln, Germany </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Almost a normal one in Thessaloniki, Greece</td></tr>
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So whoever reads this post and has another photo of a stop sign from around the world, please send it to me (lenixsf@gmail.com)! I'll make sure your name or website is associated with the image. </div>
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Kyoto is the Japan you may have imagined - magical temples and Zen gardens, colourful Shinto shrines <span style="font-family: inherit;">and elegantly dressed geisha flitting between wooden tea houses. I read it somewhere: Kyoto is the Japan of the past and Japan of the imagination. And it is so true, I found here everything I had imagined I would see in Japan. It wasn´t Tokyo or Osaka that impressed me in Japan, it is Kyoto!</span><br />
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Kyoto is best to be visited undoubtedly in spring or autumn for the cherry blossom bloom or the colourful autumn leaves. Summer is extremely hot and humid and winter is freezing. And I can assure you that even beginning of winter is freezing cold. </div>
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I got to Kyoto by bus which is 5 times cheaper than the train (and probably 5 times slower, with breaks at every hour!). My couchsurfing host Masa was waiting for me at the bus station and took me to a real nice sushi go round restaurant with a conveyor belt and endless variety of dishes! It was so good, much better than the same kind of restaurants in Europe!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">This was the first thing I did in Kyoto, straight from the bus to a sushi restaurant</td></tr>
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It`s impossible to visit all the sites and temples in Kyoto...There are so many and also most of them charge a fee (usually 400-600 JPY <a href="http://www.templefees.com/">Admission fees</a>) so at the end you have to make your selection of temples to visit.<br />
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I started off with <b>Fushimi Inari</b> or also known as The Red Road.<br />
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This vast shrine complex is a world unto its own. It is, quite simply, one of the most impressive and memorable sights in all of Kyoto. A pathway wanders 4km up the mountain and is lined with hundreds of red torii (shrine gates). There are also dozens of stone foxes which are considered the messenger of Inari.</div>
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Meanwhile, the<b> Imperial Palace</b> grounds, smack in the center of Kyoto, are a sprawling park full of romantic pathways, century’s old pine trees and landscaped gardens. It’s a perfect place to stroll and escape modern Kyoto’s traffic and cement facade.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It´s beautiful but so crowded! Thousands of people. My advice - go early (very early) in the morning!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Couldn't take a close up photo of their faces but 90% of the young girls wear artificial eyelashes</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Masa took me to his favourite temple in Kyoto which was in Northern Kyoto, in a rural town nestled in the mountains called Ohara, about one hour from Kyoto Station but still technically located within Kyoto's city limits. And I think it is my favourite too - Sanzen-In temple. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The path from the town to the temple is lined with numerous small shops. One of the local specialties on sale are aisu kyuri, cucumbers pickled in seaweed flavored ice water and served on a stick. I think I tried almost everything before we got to the temple. </span></span></div>
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Maiko are the apprentices of Geisha. Generally girls who are aspiring to become Maiko enter an Okiya (Geisha houses) at the age of 15-20 in Kyoto, and are trained for some years, then they are recognized as Geisha. If you spend enough time on the streets of Gion, you might be lucky to spot one of them...but you have to be quick because despite of their uncomfortable platform flip-flops, they move so fast (like ninjas :)) that before you realise it, they will duck out of sight and slip into one of the wooden houses around. </div>
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I have to admit that I got completely lost the first night when I got back to Masa´s house. As i left the house in the morning together with him, i didn´t pay attention to the neighbourhood. And in the evening when I got off the metro and made my way towards the street where his house was, it was already dark and I found myself surrounded by 100 identical houses. I had a key for one of them and the address in Japanese, which I couldn´t decipher of course. I knew Masa was at a wedding party and would come back pretty late and also I didn´t have a cell phone to call him. Felt so useless! </div>
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Started asking people on the street (not many around!), showing them the note Masa wrote me with his address and phone number and in 10 minutes I had 4 people with me, all trying to call Masa, checking google maps for the address and looking for the house! They all were so nice and helpful. It was around 10 pm already but they spend a fair amount of time trying to help me. At the end we found it! And when I tried the key and the door opened, everyone applauded and was very relieved! Silly me and my not existing sense of directions!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Despite of being late, a homemade dinner Masa´s mum made for me was there as always :))</span></td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Regrets: never went to the bamboo forest in Kyoto, never tried a kimono on! Would also love to come back and see the city in spring and the famous cherry blossoms. And maybe get a new jacket for Masa´s mum!</span><b></b></div>
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-->Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618964502854469014noreply@blogger.com0Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan35.0116363 135.7680293999999334.595911799999996 135.12258239999994 35.4273608 136.41347639999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794388078183670707.post-45237963815729903502014-05-29T22:23:00.001+02:002014-05-29T22:26:48.355+02:00PERUVIAN JUNGLE. Going to Iquitos<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On a cargo ship to Iquitos</td></tr>
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<b>Goal: Iquitos</b> - the largest city on earth that can only be reached by boat or plane. Coming from Trujillo, I was planning to spend 2 days in Tarapoto, another jungle town which has lots of waterfalls, rivers, lagoons, rafting, hikes...so lots to do here.<br />
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<b>Tarapoto</b>. Took a bus from Trujillo, Ejetur (21h, 65/S.) and had a couch in Tarapoto but right after having met him, I wished I went to a hostel. His place was scary (I’m just gonna say that the bathroom had no door, no sink, no water till 4pm) and I could have put up with it but my host was scary as well. Once I made it to the house, I realized that he was the guy who I was supposed not to surf with cos all the guys I met in Nazca warned me about him but sometimes I just don´t listen. I decided he is mentally retarded (that´s the better option) and if I leave that would cause more problems to his mental state. He wanted me to stay another day for his friend’s birthday party (who was actually normal) but there was no way I was staying. I took the second bus in morning (7am, the first one leaves at 5am) which apparently wasn’t enough cos I got to Yurimaguas too late and had no other choice but wait for the next boat leaving to Iquitos.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Three boats left early in the morning to Iquitos and I was told that EDUARDO IX would leave next morning. So I bought a ticket (70 /S.), a hammock and settled. Don’t buy a hammock in advance; they sell plenty of them there at reasonable price. The boat started to get crowded and more and more people were coming with their hammocks. Luckily a French couple put up their hammocks next to me so I had some company. Eduardo didn’t leave the next day either, so I spent 2 nights sleeping on the boat without leaving Yurimaguas. Did a few turns to the centre of town, used the internet, had lunch, then dinner, shower, then lunch, then dinner…Not much happening there.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Day 1. Just me...</td></tr>
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And 2 hours after we left the port, we got stuck due to the shallow waters of the river at this time of the year (summer here and winter in the rest of Peru) and the whole day we didn’t move until the EDUARDO IV came to help us - long procedure of unloading all the bags of rice, yuka an chickens…then the ship was much lighter so we manage to finally get out of the shallow spot and 2 more hours to load everything back to our boat. Then it was dark already and the captain was too scared to continue during the night and get stuck again.</div>
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I spent the following 4 days sleeping in the hammock, talking to some of the other foreigners, playing rummy and eating chicken with rice and plantain almost three times a day. Sleeping in the hammock is quite comfortable and if there weren’t any sand flies would be just perfect. I managed to read 4 books while on the boat, luckily the French girl had quite a big selection of books with her. And having a shower was one of the treats we all had there, cos the bathrooms are quite comfortable and the cool water is very refreshing, after a whole day of sweating.</div>
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Finally, on the 28th of Aug (3 days later that I had told my host I will arrive) our boat got to <b>Iquitos</b> in Peruvian Amazon – the largest city on earth only accessible by boat or air. David (my host in Iquitos) sent me a message earlier that maybe 2 couples whose he was also expecting , were on the boat. Wasn’t difficult to find them since there were 10 foreigners and 100 Peruvians… A Spanish and a Danish couple. At the end the French couple also came. Once in Iquitos we all headed to David´s house. Going through the heaps of mototaxis offering us a ride for 10 soles, we took a bus for 1 sol each.</div>
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David and his wife were very friendly and had lots of stories to tell – about Ayahuasca, thieves, the jungle…All together we went to Mercado de Belen – the goal was to buy caiman fillets and other things for the dinner but as it always happens I bought all kind of stuff, needed and unneeded. There was such a big variety of Amazon fish, spices, fruits and vegetables we didn’t know, art work…that one could not resist buying them. The dinner was exclusive, everyone helped and for the caiman David had a special recipe, he even won a national prize for that and it´s true, it was delicious. </div>
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We all went to the manatee rescue center. I’ve never seen or heard of such an animal before, they are like water cows, harmless and cute. People used to keep them as pets but in conditions that eventually will kill them. And these guys try to save as many as possible and make sure they recover (they feed them like babies with a nursing bottle), prepare them how to survive and then release them into their natural environment. Pretty often they die though.<br />
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I knew that at some point I have to go on a jungle tour, if not here, then in Ecuador or Colombia. And since I made such an effort to come to Iquitos was pointless to leave without going to the jungle. So we booked a 3 days tourfor 250 Soles including all transports, food, lodge and guides. Was supposed to go together with the Spanish couple but Oscar got bitten by David´s dog so they cancelled the trip and I went with two German guys.</div>
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The lodge was nice, basic but clean and food was very good. Lots of mosquitos of course, after 6pm it was impossible to be outside. First day we saw the pink dolphins, heaps of them. Went for a walk near the lodge, in the jungle´s heart. Our guide knew every single tree and plant, copaliyo (helped me get rid of my diarrhea), rubber plant tree, garlic plant, uña de gato (apparently good for any kind of pain, kidneys, stomack, bruises)…In the afternoon the guides took us to another part of the Amazons to see the pink dolphins. They are really pink, just the male ones I think and only the tops. And we ended up soaking in the nice refreshing water despite the piranhas, there were a few bites but nothing serious.</div>
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Second day an Australian girl joined us. We went looking for sloths (perezoso, <span lang="BG">ленивец</span><span lang="EN-GB">)</span>, found two but when our guide tried to shake it down(straight from the top of the tree together with its baby, we all protested telling him that don’t wanna see it anymore, at least not dead) Also went to Puerto Miguel, the closest village to the lodge and instead of watching a boring football match we played volleyball with the local kids.</div>
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Went camping the second night, managed to set up the hammocks and mosquito nets just before the rain started pouring heavily. At 1,30 am, in my deepest sleep, Falcor woke us up to go caiman and anaconda “hunting”. So we had no choice, got out of our hammocks, put the head torch on and went looking for caimans. In the mud, dark and rain :(.</div>
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Next thing was piranha fishing. We actually did it where we went swimming the day before...so they don´t really attack you I guess! At least not those there...<br />
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Got back to Iquitos just in time to get on the boat to Yurimaguas…This time I went straight upstairs where all the foreigners were. It was fucking cold the first night, there was a storm and me and my hammock, sleeping bag and clothes got completely soaked. Luckily one of the couples who were sleeping in a cabin let me use their hammock for the night. There were some cool people on the boat so the time went by quickly…talking, reading, playing games, watching films. Even when we got stuck and had to stay an extra night and morning until we got rescued from another Eduardo, we didn’t complain much. Met this cool half Peruvian, half Cuban but American by passport, calledCasandra and we spent long hours talking about our lives or “freezing to death” <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span>. </div>
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We all (the foreigners) got a bus to Tarapoto and then I started taking numerous buses to Chiclayo, Piura and Talara…and the last one to Lobitos where I was supposed to volunteer. My time in Lobitos was so amazing that I´ve already posted it, a few months ago, here is the link: <a href="http://gonewiththebackpack.blogspot.com/2012/11/lobitos-la-casona-y-las-vibras-buenas.html">Volunteering in Lobitos</a>.</div>
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After this incredible month I spent in La Casona and Lobitos, it was time to go due to my visa, I stayed almost 3 months in Peru, the longest I ever stayed in a country. Lots of people were leaving these days and the idea was that we all mett in Mancora, the party town on the beach, just 1,5h away north. I followed the others and stayed at Loki, beautiful hostel but famous with its destruction – you stay there 2 nights and then you have to recover for a week. Exactly what happened to me <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span>. Two days in Mancora, it was time to go. Said goodbye to friends and people I knew and left on a bus to Cuenca, Ecuador.</div>
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And one more thing: Pisco Sour is Peruvian!!! 100 %! Im sorry my Chilean friends but its true! You still have the Piscola <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">J</span></div>
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