Hello everyone.
This is Mostar. It is city in southeaster Bosnia and Herzegovina. Beautifu river Neretva passes through Mostar. Mostar is known for Stari Most. Stari Most in bosnian means Old Bridge. River Neretva passes under Stari Most.
It is built in 16th century.
We had lovely time visiting Mostar and Stari Most.
Finally we arrived at Mostar. It was definitively worth coming.
Street in Mostar are special. They are covered with stones. Also restaurants and shops have stone walls.
Again like in Blagaj and Konjic roof is covered with stone tiles.
On the streets you cab see different shops selling different souvenirs.
These shops are so interesting and there is always something for everyone.
First look at Stari Most.
We are getting there. Looks beautiful.
More shops. Here in Bosnia we drink lot of coffee so there are a lot of stuff related to coffee as well.
Here are manual coffee grinders.
When you grind coffee beans with them it smells very nice.
Approaching Stari Most. Almost there.
View from the bridge is something else. Neretva flows down. Landscape is beautiful with all stone buildings surrounding river bed. And there is lot of greenery around.
Blue sky.
This is the way that we come from.
Stari Most from down.
It is built in 16th century. Construction started at 1557 and finished in 1566. It was contructed by Mimar Hayruddin - student of famous architect Mimar Sinan.
It is 4 m wide and 30 meters long.
Its heigth is somewhere around 24 meters.
There are different competition being held here.
Each year there are traditional skokovi sa Starog Mosta ( Diving from Old Bridge). It is held at the end of July.
This year annual competition will be held at 28. July and it will be 447th diving competition from Stari Most.
During summer days divers walk around bridge and collect money to jump from the bridge. You can see one diver waits at the edge of the bridge. Tourist tip them money to jump.
Even tough it is summer river Neretva is really cold. Divers are experienced in diving from Stari Most.
On this side people come and relax. They sit on the rocks and watch people jump of the bridge. You can even get your feet wet to refresh yourself.
When there are competitions on the bridge people can watch from here.
River Neretva is really cold.
While here we were waiting for someone to jump. After some time it seems like this diver will go for it. They asked for applause.
And I was able to capture take of and dive.
In this photo only glimpse of man that jumped off the bridge is seen. Later when I went through photos I saw it.
And into Neretva.
This is nice place to sit and relax. There is boat and you can rent it for a ride on the river.
Time to eat something. This restaurant was nice and calm.
More photos of the bridge.
It fits so well into its surrounding. River, sky, landscape.
Back to the other side.
Time to go back.
One more pfoto of the Stari Most.
We had really nice time here in Mostar.
Hope you enjoyed.
