MOSTAR IS MOST BEAUTIFUL 🇧🇦 MUST VISIT 

Man I hope Bald does a former Yugoslavia set of videos so people can get detailed and accurate history lessons because he does research and only records when he has all the facts. This “well i’m making videos for tourists that don’t do research and just pop into random places unprepared and expect things to go smoothly like they would in Paris or London” is just not doing these places any justice. Especially in a country that is full with interesting history and nature.

There he goes again about that darn Sim card. “Bosnia has no internet”. The place is backwards. No dude you just don’t know how to find the BH telecom store where they have English speaking customer service to help you set up your phone - you walked straight past the BHT store at 21:45 into your video. Like anywhere in the world, you go to the local network provider store to fix up your service. Or simply ask the waiter at any cafe you go to for their wifi code.

I knew a family who fled Bosnia during the war. The trauma on the young boys face I will never forget. Thank you Johnny for a peaceful Bosnia now but never forget what happened there. Peace. ✌

Wow, Mostar is truly a beautiful city. Some areas, like the old town, remind me of Budva in Montenegro, the river is somewhat similar to the Ribinica river with the stone buildings. Thanks for sharing this experience. While in Bosnia and Herzegovina sadly we only had time to visit Sarajevo. Hopefully next time while there we will have time for Mostar as well. The Balkans are underrated and so colourful culturally. I had mostly positive experiences through my Balkan roundtrip.

Literally buy a sim card anywhere, add credit to it and buy like 10gb of data. Not even expensive. I have no idea how he´s having so much trouble with it

Thank you for visiting and posting this video of my hometown. I left the city because of the war and have been living in the USA almost 30 years now. Mostar was the city that suffered most of the damage in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the civil war. I appreciate your channel and your videos, and have been following you for the long time!

There is a lot of History there and the fact that your shedding some light on it and people are educating you and your willing to learn is to be admired. Like you said, not to many people know about Herzegovina and maybe thats a good thing.

Love Bosnia 🇧🇦 ❤️ Best people in the world 🌎

Mostar is a true gem in the Mediterranean. I was born in Sanski Most and it’s a beautiful little town situated on 9 rivers in the northwestern part of Bosnia. Incredible video sir. Liked and shared!

how come you dont mention how safe it is in the cities you've visited in that region compare with other countries

I've been in Bosnia last year, and I wish I can go back again cuz I loved the country and people so kind & polite & helpful, and the most important is secure,

That is really such a beautiful place and props to u Jonny the girls seemed to have really taken a liking to u... good for u buddy thank u showing us that beautiful place with that view I would have never known

I enjoy your vids. You are doing something you love and doing what other's wish they could do. The lav helps with the dialog, even a little shotgun mic for your phone will help. All the best👍🏻

looks a nice place that johny, thanks for sharing it

I loved Bosnia when I was there. Perfect infrastructure. You just choose the wrong mode of transportation and way to visit. Go hitchhiking through or rent a bicycle or motorcycle.

Managed to visit mostar on a day trip from dubrovnik, so cause of length of journey didn't arrive to afternoon and only had a few hours visit might explain busy afternoon. Absolutely beautiful place looking to go back.

I am from Sarajevo, I love that city, but deep down within me Mostar is my best city in the country, the history, atmosphere, weather, people, simply everything...best city in B&H

I was last in Mostar back in the early 1970s Obviously things have changed. The rich Muslim history is worth a look. I remember this Old Pasha’s palace I visited. I know the bombing may have changed what was there like the old bridge having to be rebuilt. Either way your video is bringing back memories. My visit to Yugoslavia I remember very fondly. The people were lovely and made a great sheep’s cheese and slivovitz. I remember having a secret meeting with some boys we met along with my German friend on the beach one night as they snuck out unknowing to their parents. They were lovely boys. We were all teenagers at the time. Fond memories. Obviously war changes everything. No one wins a war. You would think humans have learnt that? Thanks for the video.

Mostar was designed by the artist Escher. The stairs and bridges are based on optical paradoxes, which is one reason they are difficult to negotiate. The primary goal of building the old city was to trick reality with awkward right angles into allowing residents into heaven. That's one story. Then there's what happened.

i don't think that u should try to politically analize things and make comparisons with anything knowing only the half of the half.

Nice video man and thank you for sharing my country on your channel.

Love the videos man. 🍻👍

Hey there Johnny😎🥰😉🤍…Wow..what a beautiful place. ..and so rich in history. Appreciate you taking the time to explain Mostars importance… I’ve never traveled to this part of the world. However, I certainly now plan too. ( I’ll just bring more cash😉). Where are we off to next?.. Any hints? LoL. Anyway, sending you peace and much love Johnny..✌🏼🥰☺️🤍

Man that view with the breakfast looks so beautiful almost like painting 🖼

thank you John for promoting my beautiful homeland and coming to visit other cities as well

Hi Johnny, i've really enjoyed your Bosnia vlogs. I went to Mostar last year and it was pretty dead, because of Covid. Its a lovely city, especially in the old town. Will be going back again at some point.

To anyone curious about the war type 'hell in East mostar' into RU-vid, heartbreaking. I went to mostar a couple of years ago and knew very little about the place and watched it in the hostel after spending an afternoon walking the streets and my blood ran cold to see what had happened in the recent past.

This seems to be a very interesting place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!

That tour guide is very cool guy

Johnny ordered a whole swedish table for breakfast! lol

Oh man, you were so close to all the bombed out buildings that were left since the war, but you turned back. Honestly 1 more minute of walking after the iNoviny shop and you would have witnessed the magnitude of the war.

Merci! Super la vidéo🙏🇺🇦💙💛

Mostar is so beautiful Thank you Johnny for sharing just loving all the history..Great job 👏👏 ❤

Hi John I was born in Bosnia 🇧🇦 during the war in 94 I was 5 or 6 years old in 1999 when we escaped to the Unites States but I miss my home and some day I will be back and it’s interesting to see your perspective on it and your perception of the life over there thank you for visiting us ☺️🙂

First lol, great video dude!

That was wonderful! Thanks for this…so well done 💜Mostar is really extraordinary…surreal ☺️

Beautiful City❣️ Loved that man’s Ghost Buster’s Shirt.

Very interesting video. Makes me want to visit Mostar. You say it as you see it.

My god so picturesque. Great video. What camera are you using

The slow mo was the best thanks Johnny!!!!

A lot of "tourists" in BiH are just people who moved abroad and are visiting family and friends in summer

Thank you for visiting my city,hope you enjoyed

Johnny on a contentroll. Good stuff!

Looks beautiful

This is a wonderful place!

Johhny try get to Montenegro, especially Kotor bay, Budva, maybe check the mountains and canyons too. If you can get to Belgrade and Novi Sad would be cool too. There is a guy called Brad Beckett who is a vlogger in Belgrade, he knows you from Chiang Mai days, maybe you can meet up and video together?

Ananas is pineapple Johnny… thx for visiting one of my favourite places in Herzegovina. Again, the fact there is no credit card usage is that commission cuts into their profits. Croatia would also love Euros or cash vs credit cards. A lot of these places are busting their butts to try to survive. It’s not easy for them. The busy season in Croatia and BiH is in July and August during school break

Thank you for this a amazing video

Beautiful City

And if you are staying in BiH, you can visit town Jajce, its a very nice town. And you can visit town Travnik, they are making the best čevapčići, you go to restoran Hari.

Its fantstic to se the differens with or without turists in Mostrar from when i was there in october last year during Covid.

loved that kid's headspin when girl in golden dress passed by 11:00

Great video as always Johnny! I have to say your friend with the sort of floral dress and blonde hair that you met up with for ice cream is absolutely beautiful and her smile is so nice!

All countries of former Yugoslavia are very beautiful. Each in its own way.

You should come to Bihac as well .. really beautiful city in Bosnia

A loy of people confuse Ananas and Bananas! :) Totally different, as Ananas is pineapple, in several languages. Got ropey sound on my PC, so you probably know already.... think I will start doing vlogging myself, you meet all the lovely ladies! ;) - stay safe and happy, and with a good internet connection, and able to use that credit card! :)

Hi Johnny FD. Great video about my hometown I enjoyed it, just little correction it's not strictly river that divides two sides of Mostar it's actually former front line during Bosnian-Croat war which is Šantića street and Boulevard street. Greetings from Mostar

Next time visit Banja Luka,second lagerst town in Bosnia. Beautiful town with nice nature, architecture and good food..

The Mostar bridge is very beautiful. I was there just after the fighting stopped. U.N. troops were still around. Turkish money was rebuilding the bridge. So I saw all the shrapnel scared, bomded out buildings, a few remain today. I crossed over on a small boarded foot bridge to the other side, walked around abit, then went back. Spent about four days in the area before moving onto Sarajevo by bus.

I really enjoy your blogs!!! I want to commend you , you are such a humanitarian !!!! I know a little about what was once Yugolslavia . I visited Rijeka, Split ,Dubrovnik before the War!!!! I loved the people,the beautiful sights and learning the history!!!It was a mild Communist government when I went!!! One thing Tito did was make sure all children were educated. I found the young were very intelligent and knowledgeable, even then. Many spoke English.The men were also very respectful and kind. I just found out it was the Serbians who really ambulated the Bosnians not the Croatians. The Serbians were backed byRussia and China during the war!!!!

Mostar also has a population of Jewish residents who have been there since the 16th century. Apparently there is a Jewish cemetery in Mostar. The city's first soccer ball was made by Mr. Lihner a Jewish fellow. There was a Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jewish synagogue built which was demolished during WWII and rebuilt and then subsequently donated to the City of Mostar. A new synagogue was supposed to be built. But Jewish people can meet together in a house so while they waited for a new synagogue they probably meet in various locations. I think the problem is that the Christians, Muslims and Croats don't want to recognize that there is also a Jewish community there and so they are limited by not allowing them to finish their synagogue.

Don’t give up Johnny, Bosnia & Herzegovina isn’t that difficult to pronounce

Sound is so much better on this video

Great! What was the name of that first breakfast/coffee place?

A fascinating video on Mostar. Indeed the town is divided, as is BIH in general. Cash is very much King and would suggest any visitor takes cash in euros, USD or Pounds Sterling. You have to remember that development is slow. As for tourist numbers in BIH, would suggest that Mostar is busy during the day due to day trippers from Croatia. Once they have gone home, the town should be quiet. However, unfortunately there is still the past which affects people”s thinking as to visits to BIH in general. Indeed BIH produces some excellent wine. On the subject of division, Sarajevo has two bus systems, one going to Sarajevo and the other to East Sarajevo (Republicans Srpska). However as a visitor, you should be fine to get around the region.

You really need a nice big bag of popcorn, and a comfortable seat at the cinema, in order to watch these episodes anymore.

I’m only guessing but I think it is busier around lunchtime because people take coach trips from other places to go there. I saw it as an option when I stayed in Dubrovnik.

So much easier to hear you with a lapel mic! Thank you! May I just remind you when you're adding background music, like the intro, to mix the level lower where you're talking (I noticed you remembered later in the video). Now, when you can afford it, a handheld mic for capturing people you're talking to. 😊 But you completely screwed up the closing; I couldn't hear a thing you said!

Oh goody another video watching Johnny eat.😄😂🤣

The Problem with Mostar is that nearby everything including the Bridge was destroyed during the war in the 1990`s. Frontline btw along the River and roughly 2000 +/- dead. But nice Restauration work. And no the original Bridge isn´t from the Osmans the Original one was from wood and even mentioned by Alfonso V of Aragon in 1454. The Osmans only build the Stone bridge in 1566. But one is for sure BH can be a great Tourist country if they want but first you need a support group for cockta addicts.

Hello Johnny, I just saw you walked by about 10pm at Budva Montenegro along the beach but could not catch you to say hello. Hopefully tomorrow my last day here.

Can I know what is the name of that restaurant you have breaksfast in Mostar with the nice view. Thank you.

The restaurant Johnny was at with the Girls is called " URBAN GRILL " best Cevappi I have eaten in 4 years in the Balkans for €6 .

Thank you Johnny FD for the historical tour ! I must say those people really serve a table full of food ! I’ve never seen so much food served to three people ! Hearing about the historical events in the Balkan , Yugoslavian area is tragic !

You know I'm really jealous right now! Can I get a "you were right"? 😆

Dude: Herz-gaw-vee-nah

Johnny, why do you not learn the most basic things about the places you visit? Like how to pronounce them properly??

hehe Johnny , thank you for giving Austrian tourist a lection about Slovenian Cockta and advertising it in 3rd video in the row. I am Slovenian and don t like it that much, because in darker times it was almost the only choice. You should maybe visit Slovenija soon, that you get a feeling of huge differences among ex yu republics ;). And yes, it s not that cheap and maybe not as exciting for you, because it s more Austrian influenced and less relaxed.

Untouched nature (mainly due to underdeveloped economy and factories). Mostar has a Mediterranean climate (like Italy), and in Bosnia we have parts that look like Antarctica in the winter. :) Type on youtube search "Journey Across Bosnia & Herzegovina | Part 4"

It somewhat has a small Canadian feel to it I am in 2nd largest multi culture country in the

So nice brother God bless you all 🙏

Hello from Mostar ✌️

Johnny is the best chaimaster out there lol

I remember that bridge, when the war started a couple was shot on there, started of the war, beautiful.

Do they not cross the bridge because they were there when it was brought down in 1992?

You got the year wrong pal 😂😂😂

Croats didnt siege Mostar it was divided from the start,they were all living there and both side shelling each other.

I went to school in Mostar ❤️

Nice

Mostar is a real noble city, the foundations of which were laid by Bosniak nobles. That city did not exist before the arrival of the Ottomans. The foundations of the city were laid by Ottoman Grand Vizier Hadım Sinan pasha Borovinić who was the son of the Bogumil Bosnian nobleman Tvrtko Borovinić and the great-grandson of the Bosnian nobleman Hrvoje Vukćić Hrvatinić (no relation to name Hrvat -Croat. In fact, his father had the popular non-Christian name Hrvatin). Sinan pasha Borovinić built a stone mosque on the site of the old one and the first urban quarter (Atik-old quater) around it. The Sinan pasha Mosque was built in 1473. Five centuries before the first Catholic church was built in Mostar in 1866. Sinan pasha also built a hammam and the first shops and created the outlines of the town. His descendants, son Ferid beg Borovinić and Bajazid Borovinić, continued to live in Mostar. In the defter for the Herzegovinian sandžak from 1519, we find inscriptions of Sinan pasha descendents Ferid-beg Borovinić and his son Bajezid. Huma Kosaća- Alibegović the granddaughter of Herceg Stjepan, and daughter of Grand Vesir Ahmed pasha Hercegović married Hercegovian duke Mehmed-beg Alibegović, who ruled Herzegovina from 1523 to 1527. The construction of the first wooden bridge over the Neretva and the Herceguša tower dates back to that period. The Herceguša Tower was named after Huma, who left numerous endowments with her husband in Mostar. Than Mustafa pasha Opuković, grandsons of Sultan Sulejman and son of Bosniak Rustem Pasha Opuković become Herzegovian duke (sandzak bey) Together with his uncle Mehmed Karadjoz Bey, he convinced his grandfather to finance construction of the famous stone bridge. The brige was constructed by famous arhtect Hajruding who also built the castle in Makarska which at that time belonged to Bosnia. Mehmed Bey Karadzoz, son of Abu Seadet and brother of the famous Grand Vizier Rustem Pasha Opukovic, built a mosque under a dome in Mostar in 1557 and next to it a primary school High school, library, khan, imaret and musafirhana and completed the formation of the city. As early as 1587, there were 15 Muslim quarters and 25 mosques in Mostar. In middle of 17 century traveller Evliya Celebi recorded 45 Muslim places of worship in the town and not a single Christian quarter and not a single church in Mostar. Actually until the middle of the 19th century, there was not a single church in the whole of Western Herzegovina. In 1846, on the land of Ahmet-aga Kurt, Hercegovina duke Ali Aga Rizvanbegović built the Široki brijeg monastery 30 km outside Mostar for Catholics who lived in area. Even in Široki brijeg at the time there were no Catholics except in the monastery. The first Catholic settled in Široki Brijeg ( real name Ćemer) was Anđeo Marušić in 1888. Ethnographic research of the wider Mostar area has proven that most of the local catholic clans, 119 of them, are not natives but belong to immigrants from Dalmatia, Albania and Montenegro. Hercegovina duke Ali Aga Rizvanbegović also settled Catholics in Buna. It is interesting that all Ali Aga's endowments in Buna, Stolac and Mostar were demolished in 1993 by the descendants of those he brought to Hercegovina a century and a half earlier.

Greetings from Serbia to Mostar, a city with a soul. Friend, if you arrive, come to Serbia, Belgrade, Nis, Uzice. Enjoy, buddy. Greeting 💚🤓👋

Why didn't you extend the trip to the Croatian side of Mostar? Are you aware that during your entire stay in Bosnia and Herzegovina you were only on Muslim territory ?? Greetings from Herzegovina.

Best video ever

nice weather

Im glad if u like the country. Welcome anytime

At 37.30: My goodness! Johnny, did you three order everything on the menu? Everything looked really good!

Doesn't Bald run the hotel Bristol in Mostar? I believe that would attract a huge bunch of tourists to the city.

Amen!

mostar super

Mostar is beautiful, but never had enough time to go and visit the city. When it comes to war in 1990's there will always be different views, I was 14 when war started in Croatia and I remember very well what was going on. It would take to long to explain why and how it all started. Maybe you can look at humoristic show from 1980's - Top lista nadrealista, they knew back than that there will be a war , but no one new how bad it would be. From todays prospective it would be best if all 3 nations come together in Bosnia&Hrcegovina and try to prepare country to enter EU and to try to build up economy, country is beautiful and has potential. The same goes for Ukraine, hopefully they will sign a truce , stop fighting and find a compromise. Unfortunately Ukraine and Russia are drown down 30-40 years economically , it will take another 30 years to go back to the level where they were before war. Anyways enjoy your time in ex Yu. There are a lot of monuments from communism that your friend Bald would be interested in :)