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Adventure to the Balkans Travelogue Pt 4.: Kotor, Montenegro

Tuesday, May 05, 2020


Day trip to Montenegro, one of the countries in ex-Yugoslavia which united the Slav people in the region. This is the Bay of Kotor, a picturesque bay in the country. There are 4.5 million Montenegro people worldwide but only 600k in actual Montenegro. The country is 13,500 sqkm while in comparison, Singapore is 700 sqkm. Montenegro became independent in 2006 after separating from Serbia and was the last to leave the Yugoslavia-bloc in 2006. 

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Adventure to the Balkans Travelogue Pt. 3: Mostar, Croatia

Sunday, May 03, 2020


I hope you had a good time reading the first two parts of my travelogue to the Balkans, namely Zagreb in Croatia and Sarajevo in Bosnia. On the third day of the trip, we travel to a region of Sarajevo, which was crucial to their civil war in the 90s. We also go to another town in Croatia named Mostar. Are you ready? Click the 'Continue Reading' button below this post to find out more!

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Adventure to the Balkans Travelogue Pt. 2: Sarajevo, Bosnia

Thursday, April 30, 2020


Today, we journey through the countryside of the Balkans to arrive at the second destination of the trip - Sarajevo in Bosnia. The population of Bosnia is 3 million with 70% Muslims, and the rest made up of Catholics and Christian Jews. It also has the nickname of being the Jerusalem of Europe. Sadly, their unemployment rate is 40%, as their country is still trying to recover from the civil war, which ended in 1994. For 4 centuries, they were occupied by the Ottoman Empire, which explains the Muslim architectural influences on their buildings. Later on, the Austro-Hungarian brought technology like the first tramway in Sarajevo. Come in and let's explore Sarajevo together!

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Adventure to the Balkans Travelogue Pt. 1: Zagreb, Croatia

Wednesday, April 29, 2020


Hola at you readers! It's me, Sasha Bear here - and today we're FINALLY going to post about my trip to the Balkans circa October 2019. I hope this post cheers you up in these trying times due to the coronavirus, as I bring you on a tour around Europe in the dulcet tones of autumn. Come on in to read more!

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Adventure to the Balkans Travelogue Pt. 1: Zagreb, Croatia

Hola at you readers! It's me, Sasha Bear here - and today we're FINALLY going to post about my trip to the Balkans circa Octo...

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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

—Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

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