Would you ride this YUGOSLAV train!? 🇲🇰

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  • Join me for a ride on the Yugoslav Railway! For my latest Balkan adventures, I set out to see my last 2 former Yugoslav republics: North Macedonia (formerly the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) and Serbia. In this video we begin in Pristina, Kosovo and we take a bus to Skopje, North Macedonia. Finally, we hop on a train from Skopje to Prilep, a city in the south of North Macedonia. I could not have asked for a better train to take us there: a Yugoslavian train! This is the first of 5 videos from this trip. I hope you enjoy!
    0:00 Kosovo's Bus Station
    5:40 Skopje's (gross) Train Station
    9:05 YUGOSLAV TRAIN RIDE
    17:43 Prilep, North Macedonia
    Kosovo
    Pristina, Kosovo
    North Macedonia
    Skopje, North Macedonia
    North Macedonian Train
    Yugoslavia
    Yugoslav Train
    Balkans
    Travel Balkans
    Prilep, North Macedonia
    #northmacedonia #yugoslavia #balkan

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  • @damirkvajo
    @damirkvajo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Fun fact, that locomotive is American made and is usually called "Kenedijevka", built by General Motors.

    • @RicoBanani
      @RicoBanani 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      we had a few of them still in Osijek, Croatia until a few years ago. The mechanics would make spare parts themselves since you can't order any. They were so loud those locos.
      Nowadays we have austrian and hungarian companies driving on our rails.

  • @Glazier-nm4gn
    @Glazier-nm4gn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow ... that train station has not changed since 1984 in the old yugolsavia.....
    Spent a night on that station with a German and a Canadian Backpacker drinking plum brandy before a very eventful journey to Salonika..
    Happy days

  • @milkagoch
    @milkagoch 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I have to recommend, since you're in Prilep, there is a monastery called Zrze Monastery. I urge you to go and visit it, you'll probably have to rent a car to get there, but trust me it's all going to be worth it. You might cry when you see the view, a heads-up. And the monks are so well-educated, speak English and are extremely friendly. We have been going there every year for the past 5 years, a wonderful tradition.

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Very good to know. Unfortunately I’m not in Macedonia anymore :/ but I’ll keep this in mind for next time. I did make one more video in a village near prilep though (Desovo) that I’ll have finished soon. Thanks for watching :)

  • @davorlekenik9563
    @davorlekenik9563 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    In 1963 Skopje was destroyed by earthquake

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Wow, I had no idea. 200,000 people lost their homes, that's crazy

  • @balkangamer01
    @balkangamer01 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Hey boss man.. keep up the good work with these videos.

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      there are plenty more to come, thanks for watching as always!

    • @balkangamer01
      @balkangamer01 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Np…

  • @stefaaan424
    @stefaaan424 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How can you only have 4000 subscribers.. Great videos.

  • @gwengardner853
    @gwengardner853 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You're always up to the coolest stuff Ben, thanks for the great video!!!

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thanks for being a dedicated viewer since day 1 :)

  • @marjan99pp
    @marjan99pp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    my friend you are very lucky for traveling with yugoslavian old train. Those trains are used very rarely only when these new modern trains are regularly maintained due to a lot of electronics and chips that is maybe two or three times a year

  • @volhan
    @volhan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love your videos in Macedonia. Enjoy your trip!

  • @filipmartinovic3860
    @filipmartinovic3860 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I went with my friend on a bikepacking tour around ex-Yu + Albania previous year
    Now I get memories back when I watch your videos, really enjoying it!

  • @msquidward17
    @msquidward17 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thanks for sharing

  • @TK-_-GZ
    @TK-_-GZ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Algorithmic punch!
    I enjoy your delivery.

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you! :)

  • @queenofstrongstyle
    @queenofstrongstyle 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice vlog!

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!!

  • @factswithwahid107
    @factswithwahid107 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very gud.thank you boy for this amazing viedo.love Balkan from Pakistan

  • @Glazier-nm4gn
    @Glazier-nm4gn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazingly beautiful scenery passing rivers and through mountainous valleys from Skopje to the Greek border....

  • @Nils_Ki
    @Nils_Ki 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Okay, Ben is American, but he is definitely not an American train spotter. Otherwise he would have known without even looking, just by listening to that engine: it is an EMD! I love that sound.

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Fair enough :) I love me a good train ride, but I know next to nothing about them

  • @intel386DX
    @intel386DX 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤Yugoslavia ❤

  • @jomarluke
    @jomarluke 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shoot, dope video. Next time you're in Skopje, let me know! I've taken the train many times, as I live there.

  • @NIKOLAP7
    @NIKOLAP7 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a Macedonian I can tell you that Macedonian, Montenegrin, Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian are South Slavic languages and are above 90% mutually intelligible. The difference is that in Croats use the Latin script, Macedonians use the Cyrillic script, Montenegrins, Serbians and Bosnians use both (but not equally, one is usually more used than the other).

    • @intel386DX
      @intel386DX 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian-Montenegrian are the same, Macedonian is mix between them and Bulgarian

  • @jovan-noble-guy749
    @jovan-noble-guy749 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    7:28 -I bursted into laughter when he said "Kaži momče" (Кажи момче) lol. 🤣👍😂

  • @user-nf3rl7yt4s
    @user-nf3rl7yt4s หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love American ethusiasm. Even if the conditions are bad. By the way during Yugoslav times Montenegro was also part of Yugoslavia and just simply Macedonia. Now officially is North Macedonia according to agreement with Greece. Best to you...

  • @MightyRoos
    @MightyRoos 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There is an interesting Yugoslav era monument (spomenik) in Prilep. Burial mounds of undefeated. Споменик Могила на непобедените.

  • @faussepiste2115
    @faussepiste2115 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    cant wait for the sandzak videos.

  • @Svetlana616
    @Svetlana616 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    at the station, you can shoot a film about the 1980s in the ussr ready-made scenery😄

  • @dardamnit
    @dardamnit 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You can ride the train from Prishtina to Skopje ( Shkupi) with a changeover at the border

  • @factswithwahid107
    @factswithwahid107 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am fromer hockey player and now a hockey coach.i want in belkan countries to start field hockey I think they are playing only football

  • @alexander821
    @alexander821 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember those train bathrooms, it was forbidden to use them while the train was in the station.

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol makes sense, that’s so funny

    • @alexander821
      @alexander821 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@BenTheRules Yes it makes sense, but you did not want to use it when the train was at full speed either, because the draft would throw it back on you , especially if you had diarrhea after eating some bad burek you bought before your trip.

    • @intel386DX
      @intel386DX 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@alexander821LOL😂😅 hahaha ha crkoh

  • @apiix9519
    @apiix9519 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Bro if you can speak Serbian they will mostly understand you especially the older people who lived in Yugoslavia.

  • @toluwaseafolayan7991
    @toluwaseafolayan7991 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lemme ride dat train

  • @powderskier5547
    @powderskier5547 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Where is jugoslavia? Cant find it on the map

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      it's just to the south of Sjeverslavia

    • @intel386DX
      @intel386DX 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Look the maps before 1991

  • @powderskier5547
    @powderskier5547 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Those that say during jugoslavia the economy was good but thats because the 2 economic strong countries of Croatia and Slovenia were financially supporting all the others

    • @MightyRoos
      @MightyRoos 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just like with Germany’s west and Italy’s north been the economical powerhouse sections in those countries and providing support for Germany’s poorer east and Italy’s poorer south.

    • @user-nf3rl7yt4s
      @user-nf3rl7yt4s หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's true, rest of the country milked Slovenia and Croatia.

  • @felexchen6820
    @felexchen6820 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    pourlectr

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      je comprends pas

  • @lazbaja6595
    @lazbaja6595 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ben je Srpski Spijun ...

  • @nanimoken853
    @nanimoken853 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amerikanac koji zna jako dobro pricati bosanski jako sumnjivo zar ne ?

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Impossible

    • @nanimoken853
      @nanimoken853 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BenTheRules Sure ?

    • @MarL1p
      @MarL1p 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually, he speaks more proper Croatian even with some accent. Like the word "vlak" for train, no one southeast of Croatia uses that, it is typically "voz". @BenTheRules, Great videos, I really enjoy your content. 🤗

    • @intel386DX
      @intel386DX 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@MarL1pactually in Bulgarian it is also "vlak" (влак)

  • @petarslav34
    @petarslav34 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    never north

  • @stefan2serb
    @stefan2serb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A bit unusual that Serbs were the most numerous ethnic group in ex Yugoslavia and yet only in Serbia were there ‘autonomous provinces’ created, not only 1 but 2. Meanwhile no Serbian majority regions in other republics were classified as anything. Isn’t it also true that the Serbs sacrificed the most of all the ethnic groups in both world wars and for what???

    • @BenTheRules
      @BenTheRules  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If I had to guess I'd say because in Kosovo and Vojvodina the biggest ethnic minorities were Albanians and Hungarians, neither of which are Slavs. Whereas in Bosnia and Croatia the Serbs were minorities amongst other south slavs. that's the only difference I can think of. I'm not an expert on Yugoslavia at all so maybe someone who knows more can add to my response, but that's the first thing that came to mind

    • @stefan2serb
      @stefan2serb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BenTheRules you are right, but 30% of the North Macedonians population is Albanian, the whole northwestern portion is majority Albanian, likewise with the very south of Montenegro (Ulcinj). Istria was formerly majority Italian. No other republic was carved up like Serbia and it really came back to bite us in the ass when it became time for Yugoslavia to fall to pieces.

  • @edweb2006
    @edweb2006 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Still smells on Tito.
    Good job (but F... Jugoslavia)

    • @aussie1546
      @aussie1546 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      you must be young with comment like this......

    • @powderskier5547
      @powderskier5547 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why? Jugoslavia is dead and buried and was a dirty corrupted communist regime, so he is 100% right @@aussie1546

    • @jovan-noble-guy749
      @jovan-noble-guy749 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@aussie1546Or he just might be Bulgarian to say that? 🤨

    • @aussie1546
      @aussie1546 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      LOL!!!@@jovan-noble-guy749

    • @user-xt3sd5kf5c
      @user-xt3sd5kf5c 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Who did tito smell? Did you sleep with him or something?