1. Siege of the city.
"Be careful, sniper," miss blackfoot cat photographed
The Siege of Sarajevo of 1992-1996 was the longest in the history of modern warfare, more than a year longer than the Sieges of Stalingrad and Leningrad in World War II. Since 1991, Slovenia, Croatia and North Macedonia have been separated from Yugoslavia. Bosniaks and Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina voted for independence against Serb resistance, after which civil war broke out. The Serb army and the Yugoslav People's Army surrounded Sarajevo, and the siege continued even after the signing of the 1995 armistice agreement. Civilians in the city are exposed to snipers day after day.
Tunnel Museum Miss Blackfoot Cat photographed
Sarajevo has too many museums and memorials documenting the siege. What struck me most was that some of the small memorials were run by the surviving families, and a large number of strong private memories and a large number of relatively less strong public memories were forcefully expressed. I think it's a lot better than a bunch of stuff in a big museum. To be honest, when I visit these memorials, I repeatedly think of the siege that is still happening at the moment, the siege of the epidemic, the siege of war. I cried and said to J, history has never passed, people have never learned any historical lessons – I no longer believe that we are the ones who make a brighter day – is there still a brighter day in this world???
Tunnel Museum Miss Blackfoot Cat photographed
The most famous of these museums is probably the tunnel museum. It is close to Sarajevo airport in a straight line, but it is about 3 km on foot as you have to bypass the airport. During the siege, the United Nations established a humanitarian passage (for civilian use only) at the airport, so Sarajevo dug this underground tunnel to secretly transport weapons and supplies. They even dug tracks out of the planks to transport the wounded. The passage is low and full of standing water. In the case of J, for example, adult males have to bow their bodies to 90 degrees to pass. There is now a mined area next to the Tunnel Museum. The tunnel currently preserved in the Tunnel Museum is only 20 meters. Staff introduced that they were repairing and restoring longer distances.
Sarajevo Winter Olympics luge track ruins Miss Blackfoot Cat photo
2. Nature
Sarajevo in April is snowing for a while and hot enough to wear a skirt. Trebević's 1984 Olympic bobsleigh track is tucked away in the greenery of the mountainside at 1,000 metres. The track is still covered with snow, but the sun is unfathomablely bright. The track is actually quite broken, and the snow melts with small streams of water, weeds and mud. There are tracks and slightly wider walking trails to hike. There are also quite steep mountain trails with only thin wooden handrails, which is very happy. The shell is a variety of graffiti. I don't even know how to describe it – industrial wind? But I really love the design of throwing Olympic venues directly to residents for activities and play without modification.
3. Ramadan
We are in Sarajevo just in time for Ramadan. But we didn't realize it... We wandered to the most famous highland in the city and talked to people only to find that people were actually waiting for the sunset and iftar... At the moment of darkness, people fired signal flares, fireworks were lit, the crowd erupted in applause and cheers, the minarette in the city was lit up, and everyone sat down and began to eat... Pizza! I will never forget this. Afterwards, I will write an article detailing the ramadan experience here.
4. Movies
The Sarajevo Film Centre is small, with only two floors, but it will repair and play many Yugoslav and Bosnian films that cannot be seen elsewhere, and I personally feel that the curation is very careful. Since we were the only two spectators to go twice, the super enthusiastic staff also let us sit down and take pictures and post them on Facebook as promotional photos for the "screening event", uh... There was a small library (a bookshelf) in the film center, and I saw a thick box of Hou Xiaoxian. If you're visiting Sarajevo, you might as well take a walk around to increase their popularity.
Stray cats everywhere in Sarajevo photographed by Miss Black-footed Cat
5. Cat cat
Cat friendly city. Both volunteers and residents will take cats neutered and fed. In the 3 days in Sarajevo I met 28 cats and cats, offering a total of one bag of cheese and several slices of chicken. I was lucky enough to pick up 5 of them.
6. Eat meat
Sarajevo is predominantly meat-eating, with the main food being cevapi (grilled sausage burritos) and Bosnia pie (similar to shortbread rolls/potatoes/spinach/cheese in my opinion...). ）。 In the most famous pie shop we ordered a bunch of pies and found that it was actually weighing billing - 8 marks, about 4 euros... It's so cheap it makes me want to cry. The meat is really delicious and cheap, but only the meat is slightly greasy for me, and I can't eat it after eating two meals. And J is a vegetarian, so we found another falconel shop.
Grilled sausage burritos photo by Miss Black-footed Cat
Falafel Restaurant Miss Blackfoot Cat photo