Exploring Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina is a Balkan nation with a rich but deeply controversial history. Its complex past has left an indelible mark on the country, shaping its ethnic and political landscape.
The most significant and traumatic event in recent Bosnian history was the Bosnian War (1992-1995), which erupted as Yugoslavia disintegrated. The war involved ethnic and religious divisions, with atrocities committed by various factions. I went solo to Bosnia and Herzegovina to understand how people live this European country.
Credits to Ado from Cuhovici.
Timecodes:
00:00 - Introduction into geography of Bosnia and Herzegovina
03:08 - Mostar
08:23 - Sarajevo - the capital city
14:46 - Following the footsteps of Bosnian Wаr
18:10 - Banja Luka and Republika Srpska
21:53 - A town of Doboj
23:28 - Stuck in Bosnian nowhere
26:33 - Trainhopping Sarajevo to Konjic
28:07 - A weekend in Bosnian countryside
December 2022.
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It s crazy, 1500 years of seperation and you could still hold a basic conversation between russian and jugoslavian, SlavicConnection.
It is but is also very likely the gentleman learned Russian in his school days because he understood him better than I did
My Mom and grandparents in Bosnia (Tuzla) also learned Russian in school :) I only speak a few words/phrases
That wasn't pure Russian, he was using several of "our" words as well in maybe 20% of what he said, but true nevertheless.
During Yugoslavia times,first language in school was Russian
It's easy cause all speak macedonian dialects..
I really enjoyed my time in Bosnia, very unique country, thanks in large part to our amazing tour guide Vekas from Bosnian Tours. He customized the tour to suit our interests, and his dedication ensured that we fully experienced the country and our trip, which is really rare for guides in Bosnia. We visited approximately 15 different places in just a few days. If you are planning your next trip I would highly recommend everyone to visit Bosnia.
You’ve got a knack for telling the history of the countries you visit. very well done, I wish you all the success you deserve.
This is not country. Realistic occupation. AFRICA TYPE
Bosnian Muslim people are sweet and hospitable, I like them and always will. It’s too bad they were involved in the war. This was a fabulous video. Thank you and bless you.
they attack children of other ethnic groups.....
@@abhabh6896 Could you state an example of this along with proof?
Because I could state MANY of the contrary.
One of the things that struck me when visiting Sarajevo was how welcoming and positive the people were, after all that the city and its inhabitants had gone through. That thought brought back the sadness about the war that I hadn't felt in such intensity since I was as a child and those events were ongoing, some 30 years ago.
On a different trip through Bosnia, in another town, a friend of mine asked a local who was fighting whom in that area. His (completely serious) reply was: "Here? Well, in this part, Serbs fought Croats and Muslims, Croats fought Serbs and Muslims and Muslims fought Serbs, Croats and Muslims." (!!!) It drives home how crazy the war was, and how it wasn't what any of the ordinary people wanted.
Unfortunately, the war "wounds" mean that nowadays, the peoples of BiH, in a large degree, actually resent one another, which wasn't the case before the war. This state is maintained by the political elites, because ethnic tensions, presented as the matter of survival (which is helped by the memory of the war) work great as a distraction from poor economy and widespread corruption. Still, the people all over Bosnia and Herzegovina remain genuinely kind and that gives hope.
Divide and conquer
Pozz iz SARAJEVA 🇧🇦
OPET NAM DOĐI U BOSNU I HERCEGOVINU NARAVNO U SARAJEVO ✌️☮️
Sarajevo remains the #1 on my travel bucket list, thanks for giving me a great preview of the area!
Ivan, ich erwarte dich sobald es dir möglich ist, dann machen wir eine viel längere Reise durch Bosnien und du kannst eine Dokumentation daraus machen!
Sehr gutes Video 👏
Vielen Dank mein Freund 🤠
war sehr überraschend mit einmal Deutsch zu hören ist seinen Videos.
You have quickly become my very favourite channel on all of youtube. Your videos are extremely interesting to watch and I learn quite a lot of things from them that I wouldn't have known otherwise. Thank you for making them! :D
Bald and Bankrupt is another great channel that is similar in style to this one too!!!
Dude just walks up and chills with the older couple having coffee outside. That is just so rad to see!
For me it is 31:34 Omer saying: "Ja, ja" understanding nothing he is being asked. Pure Bosnian stuff :))
He's saying "me, me" there.
Though if you also think about it, he could also be saying "egg" 😆 ("jaja" in Serbo-Croatian), lol.
And the translater just wanna go blacked 😃
he is saying "yes yes" since bosnians and montenegrins use ALOT of german words since Ja means yes @@lerapol
@@AB-vf7ls eww... That's... Weird. The only word for "yes" is "da", though!
I hope those that apparently do use that stop using that completely and entirely, since it doesn't sound nice at all.
it happens also because alot of bosnians have family in germany so they brought the word over, i dont personally mind it@@lerapol
What a high quality content this was again.
I really enjoyed this video.
Mixing with the locals, letting them tell their stories.
This was one for the list of your best!
30:50 Nas dobri narod i gostoprimstvo ❤
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Thanks for the historical content of where you were visiting. Your content is awesome!
Thanks for sharing really enjoyed; three lessons I noticed:
1. Kindness and sencerity in the interactions with the locals, who otherwise went thru the horror of war.
2. War's two faces, that of the Generals/Commanders in the palaces and the soldiers/common people in the trenches.
3. Western contribution to the "destruction" of Yugoslavia, not just bombs, indeed rotten canned food.
Shiey and Gifgas's tours of this country were my first exposure to it. I love how different your video is. What a beautiful place.
Your videos are absolutely brilliant. Very interesting to learn about different countries whilst also having original visual content to scan at.
I'm from Venezuela, and Diego Arria was our ambassador at the UN. He kept warning about the conflict and danger of muslims being killed there... He made a book about the utter failure of the UN.
While containing less train hopping than in prior episodes, I really enjoyed your video. Especially the last part with der Deutsche mann and that part of the country. Bravo.
Nisam ja Deutsche Mann nego Bosanac 🤠 hvala, dobro nam došao i ti kao gost 🤠
Very nice video! I always look forward to your videos and the history lessons and talks with local people that you include.
Thank you for Posting this :)
Enjoying the video so far, hope that you're doing well and thanks for the upload!
I really enjoyed the tour. Thank you very much. You are having a great adventure meeting lovely warm people on your travels. Very interesting and insightful.
dude appreciate this video. Great narration and research. Thank you
You keep referring to the Bosniaks as Bosnian which is wrong because we are all Bosnian the difference is in our ethnicities which are Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Bosniaks
@@Untrus Sadly, calling Bosniak Bosnian is a widespread mistake almost everyone does.
Your English gets better in every new video. Proud of you and enjoy your content. Keep up the good work.
awesome video...nice work, sir!
Balkans in general are such a beautiful place.
Another very good journey, showing some history, different sites with there stories. The people there are happy despite the recent war that took place there.
Love the backstory you present with each video.
Обожаю такой контент, побольше бы таких видео и общения с местными людьми)
Great job, thanks for showing us a new perspective on the complexities of B&H!
Love your stuff, vaga bond!
I really love your channel.
Lovely people and absolutely fascinating ..thanks -from Ireland.
Loved your video.
Love the video! Big fan of the longer videos!
i didnt know you spoke German as well!? amazing! thank you for this first rate video. educational and entertaining. здоровье!
Bro Your Video's Are So Informative ❤
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video! Such a beautiful country. Make love not war!!
love the vids
Another great video!
Outstanding scenery, improvising, and communicating. This is on a whole other level.
Great video! Really showed the actual Bosnia, I was very excited and surprised when you jumped out of the train at Zavidovici it's a town I spent a lot of time in during a couple summers when I was a kid. I'm Dutch but my father worked a lot in that town managing a factory. It was a humbling experience as a western kid to visit remote Bosnia, the signs of war still all around you, bullet holes, landmines, a nation wanting to rebuild but stopped in its tracks by a corrupt government. The people are very kind and open, their food I didn't like so much but some bread with cevapcici drenched in sour cream was always amazing.
If you ever find yourself in Zavidovici it's worth checking out the forest of spheres, it's a rare natural phenomena
when i was a kid we would play in buildings that were destroyed/abandoned, it wasnt until i got older that i realized that those homes were shelled and destroyed
I m from Zavidovici , and everyone are welcome there
@@emrahmulahusic6976 I would love to visit the town (and Bosnia as a whole) again some day to see what has changed in the last 15 years and test how much of the Bosnian language I still remember 😁.
@@moon_bandage the best time to visit is when its december at the end of the year , because people from the town mostly work in europe and in that time they are back and town became more colorful and live
Cevapi smaken altijd goed!
Love your interactions with locals and their different cultures
Well done! Real reporting. Always wanted to hop a freight train. Keep on traveling and reporting!
Thank you. There are so little videos out there showing and exploring bosnia or serbia.
Your videos are great yo. Most informative and a look at something I will never see in my lifetime.
Amazing place, Thank you Ivan !
Nice video as always
Your work is superb. Really enjoy it.
Anytime you come to Brazil give me a shout!
Better text my on Instagram @vagafuckabond
Thanks for sharing, hope you good
Thank you for taking us along to this very insightful trip. Generally, I would like if you show the food of the places you visit, don't know if that's your thing but for me it's very interesting too. I'll have to visit some time too. Keep up the great videos and all the best
i am from BiH , and i must say you are good at understanding our language
Can you get around in BiH with English and German?
@flopunkt3665 yeah many people speak English, mostly the youth know basics of German language
@@flopunkt3665in Sarajevo i managed to speak with a taxi driver in a mix of bosnian, english, german and danish lol
@@flopunkt3665 with young people you can talk english easy and some german, older people mostly dont know eng or german.
@@flopunkt3665 English zu 100%, Deutsch absolut null.
That was a really nice experience to watch, especially the exchange with the local folks including the German-speaking dude (who had quite an accent, sounded a bit Swiss). Great work, keep it up :)
One of your best videos
Hello from Čapljina, love the vids!
31:00 He said "kerovi" which is a slang for dogs.
32:38 The guy from there moved away.
Thank you for explanation. I expected the last freight train to stop in Capljina before crossing the border with Croatia. But it was abandoned in Konjic so I didn't visit your town.
@@ivantrainsLIVE 33:14 Ado is her cousin, her's and Ado's father are sons of two brothers (if that makes sense).
Funny thing, "shiey" cycled thru Čapljina in his Cycling to Adriatic sea part 3. If you are near here next time, I'm buying you a beer. Cheerse.
@@neonafflictionevala sugrađanine
@@neonafflictionne znam ni ja šta je s tim mislila 🤠 ako je mislila na mene, nisam nigdje otišao. Bio sam odsutan par dana.
Nice video ! 😊 Come to Bosnia again in summer time, then it is more beautiful ! 😊❤
As a person from Mostar i always loved noticing locations i have been,like Španski Trg (The spanish square) Stari Grad (old town) and of course Stari Most (Old Bridge), I also love how you included Gimnazija (The orange building near spanish square) and Musala,i laughed a few times,and your mentions of the war truly seemed respectful and purely educational,truly a great video!
Great video, wish you could come again during summer. It will definitely be more lively :)
your vids are dope, geiles Brot von gestern
❤ Brot ist heilig
You’re subscribers jumped past 100K while I wasn’t looking. Congratulations!🎉
Hi Ivan, I absolutely love your adventures, very inspiring and genuine. Watching it helps me get beyond my comfort zone a live more freely :) Good luck and stay safe, Jana from Svk :)
Another excellent film!
You should show what you eat on your adventures, im interested in that. Great videos брат.
Du sprichst auch Deutsch 👍😎
Schönes Video wie immer!
Grüße aus Ungarn 🇭🇺
I was there in September. Sarajevo and Mostar. Loved it.
Going in winter seems strange
43:33 this is why I always visit Bosnia and Herzegovina in the summer (long-term subscriber who is coincidentally watching this whilst on a bus from Podgorica to Sarajevo)! 😮😊👍
It's a huge shame about the train hopping issue with TH-cam. I love falling sleep to your videos and those past knock me out so fast.
Why? He doesnt upload them anymore??
@@pripyat.sadboi8092 TH-cam considers it violent.
love ya videos bro would love to link up!!
You should visit Jajce middle age Bosnian castle and Bjelašnica is one mountain to visit more. And how he speaks with his Slavic people I love how you both still understand eachothers.
Jajce castle was founded by Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić (ca. 1350-1416 AD) .
proper video ❤
What a beautiful country... such a brutally tragic history.
Хорошо чтобы смотреть тебе путешествовать по разных страных, я пробавю учиться русский язык поэтому понимаю как трудно выть учить англлйски из русского языка. Отличный видео, мне много нравится!!
this vlog makes me want to travle to Bosnia Herzegovina!
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Dobro nam došao 🤠
@@adnantresnjo6792 🫶🏻🫶🏻
Greatings from Zavidovici 👋
Amazing!
From your "most unusual" standard, Bosnians are the most european Muslims ever in Europe. They have never been a part of any muslim agenda in the world. Kind people and their food is very very tasty. Heaven on earth.
They just want you to leave them alone in peace. This Catholic, Croatian and Serb thing is just trouble if you understand the last balkans war in the 90's.
Yes, but from 1990 there is islamist SDA party in power, there are many vahabis there, they even have their own villages, 300 islamists from Bosnia and Sanjak and Montenegro were killed in Syria and Iraq as ISIS and Al Nusra members
@@mariozd971
What makes you think that SDA is an islamist party?
Best Videos Thanks
Very nice Serbocroatian-Russian xD Und auch gutes Deutsch! xD Schönes Video, hvala
From Russia with Respect bro ! You have a good blog. Thanks
I love these conversations with the locals
5:41 to explain this, there was a jewish man named zoran mandlbaum that would help many people in mostar during the war in the 90s, he would help them cross the neretva by falsifying their documents to appear as jewish, so either side would let them pass
the israel flag next to the herceg-bosna flag is a sign of gratitude towards zoran
That's a peculiar fact.
@@ivantrainsLIVE I belive that Israeli flag is there for Abrams company which owner change names of the streets in Mostar. They own biggest company in Mostar. But mayb its just me. Greetings from Mostar, wellcome bac in summer when the city is like 500 times more lively, and also be prepare for some great heats, its like hell in summer here
Two genocidal flags
@@91commandosHaha, you can't cope with the fact that Croatia won it's war and in Bosnia too and Israel is winning Palestine
I hope ypu have a good time in my beatiful country Bosnia and Herzegovina.We are friendly and we are happy to see somebody from another contry coming to visit are country.
12:56 is basically where franz ferdinand was murdered which started world war one... cheers from sarajevo
additionally the tank at 14:30 is from world war 2.. its an m3 stuart, along with the jeep
Your English has improved so much, impressive.
loved it
Also Shiey was in Mostar in the last videos
good video....
Man I'm impressed by your language skills 😂 English, German, Croatian, Russian...
He spoke to them in Russian
@@dilakanal mix of serbo-croat and russian to be precise
@@dilakanalnative speakers of Germanic and Romance languages have a VERY hard time distinguishing Slavic languages from each other. It tends to all simple sound vaguely Slavic to us. I've learned very basic Russian (A1 level) and I can still only hear that it's either Russian or "some other Slavic language". This is odd because I know one Romance language (French) but can still hear the differences between the other major Romance languages and identify them. However with the Slavic languages, it's a big blur. But I'm far from alone. Its seemingly a universal experience for us.
@@RobespierreThePoof Slavic languages can be distinguished by accent and dialect
@@RobespierreThePoof yeh ive taught myself really basic russian through memes and learning th alphabet lmao and even i could tell that wasn't russian but i understood a few words and could figure a few out as well.. i use to be able to tell the difference between most slavic languages but i haven't even hear any in a long time to be confidently say which is which, aside from russian and maybe polish
Thanks for sharing hello from USA
Спасибо
from all the places i have visited in my life, mostar is the one i would like to go back most. loved this incredible country and its people when i managed to spend there some time. the last part of the video presents my life in romania when i am there:)
btw do you happen to know the titles of any of the three or four films your friend mentions ?
Zdravo
Zašto ne pitaš mene? 😜
1 - Nebo iznad krajolika
2 - Gluvi Barut
3 - Duran
4 - nije mi poznat naslov filma, ali ću potražiti
Pozdrav
I love me some Vagabond
Always delivers an interesting video!
Боснийцы очень рады вашему душевному видео ❤
Ko su Bosanci???Srbi i Hrvati ne vole taj izraz!!!
@@duskokukolj5571 сраный национализм засуньте себе глубоко в задний проход. Учите историю
@@eminadelic7153 seli se ti.Nije B i H tvoja ćaćevina naročito ne Republika Srpska!I nećeš ti određivati ko smo i šta smo!
@@eminadelic7153 otkači se Turkinjo od mene!
Very well done! Next time visit us in Ivanica 🇧🇦
Beautiful foggy morning!
As a turkish guy never i have been in bosnia but this video impressed me a lot about bosnia
Come to Bosnia you will be my guest
Habibi come to Doboi
I am very jealous of your ability to communicate in many different languages.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Not to take away from his ability to speak different languages, he’s indeed very talented, but I’d like to mention that Bosnian and Russian are both Slavic languages so there is a level of mutual intelligibility that allows people to have basic conversations without a need for a translator. But yeah, this guy is talented nonetheless.
Hes speaking in russian and they're speaking bosnian which both are slavic languages,and can pretty much understand eachother
I am pretty sure one of those bridges by an intersection you showed was were Franz Ferdinand was shot by Princip.
Beautiful country, very nice people..
Welcome ❤