We took another day trip to Mostar, a city in Bosnia-Herzegovenia where there was a lot of fighting in the early 90s between the local populations of Bosniaks (Muslims), Croats (Catholics) and Serbs (Orthdox Christians). Mostar has mostly Muslims and Catholics.
Inside the Karadjoz-Bey mosque.
A view from the mosque with more mosques in the distance and a cross on the hill.
The bridge was built in 1557 by Ottomans as a symbolic link between the Muslims and Catholics that populate Mostar. It was bombed and destroyed during the war, but rebuilt in 2004 using the original techniques.
A view of us from on top of the bridge.
A variety of parking spaces. Bosnia-Herzegovenia hadn't recovered and repaired nearly as many buildings as the Croatians had and there were still many signs of the war.
Another parking spot.
Our parking spot. (Our car is the navy blue car in the middle.)
On our way home we drove through a Serbian region of Bosnia-Herzegovenia, made apparent by flags and the cyrillic signs (which did not match our maps).
There was a lot of similar of landscape as we drove through Bosnia toward Croatia with plenty of rocks and brush.
Croatia from just across the Bosnian border.
National parks in Croatia were interesting- they were beautiful but tourists swarmed the boardwalks through Krka, a park known for its gorgeous waterfalls.
We were impressed by the bright blue dragon flies.
Swimmers at the national park.
Zadar is another walled town in Croatia that still has some scars from the war and also has Roman ruins scattered about.
... to sit on, for example...
...or to ride cars around.
A cow on the cathedral in Zadar.
Paklenica was a beautiful national park with far fewer tourists and far more natural beauty.
And there are bears! But we didn't see any.
Paklenica is known for it's world class mountain climbing, although we just watched.
Sarah in Paklenica.
Pula had a fantastic Roman colosseum that dominated the skyline. It is one of the most complete in the world.
Pots.