Mostar

Tue 17/9/24

Our accommodation does not provide breakfast, so we made tea and coffee and ate the burek that we bought yesterday. Apparently there is a bakery in front of our house that opens early so we actually could have a fresh hot burek instead. 

We decided to drive to the hut with the view point of Jajce waterfall and fort. We parked by the roadside near to the trail towards the hut and walked about 5 minutes. Indeed, we managed to find the spot and took some pictures. 

view of Jajce waterfall and fortress from the hut opposite side of Vrbas river

We then continued our journey towards Mostar, located about 200km away and took about 3 hours. We stopped by Restoran Zdrava Voda near Jablanica for toilet break and had a drink of coffee and tea by the Neretva river. Luckily we arrived before a tourist bus and managed to avoid the queue to the toilet and secured a table with a nice view of the river.

view of Neretva river otw Mostar

We arrived at our accommodation Apartments Enigma at 12 noon and our host have managed to clean and prepare our apartment in time as I have messaged him while on the way there. The studio with kitchen and washing machine cost EUR 66 (RM 311) for 2 nights which we booked through booking.com and paid online.

After settling down and refreshing up, we walked to the old town of Mostar to have lunch. We wanted to have the National plate at Sadrvan restaurant which we had during our first visit in 2017 and we were glad that the restaurant and the dish still exists! However, there was already a long queue when we arrived at 1.30pm. We queued for about 30 minutes before getting a table and our dish arrived about 15 minutes later. The National plate consists of japrak, dolma, cevapi, rice, bosnian cookie, boiled potato and sour cream is enough for 2 persons. Our lunch today costs 64.5 BAM with drinks of orange juice and homemade juice.

National plate dish

The old town of Mostar was really crowded, such a contrast to the small towns of Travnik and Jajce that we visited a few days earlier. We wanted to avoid the crowd so we down to the river Neretva to take pictures with the view of the famous Stari Most bridge (although this was our second visit). We still couldn't get a picture of the bridge without any people, so we planned to come back again tomorrow early morning and to fly the drone too.

Neretva river at Mostar old town

Stari Most bridge on a busy day

busy Mostar old town

Mostar old town Koski Mehmed Pasha mosque

We walked back up to the Old town again, trying to find fresh figs, which we found not too far outside of the old town. We walked up a bit in the hope to find some more stalls, but there was none. When we returned back to the stall, the figs were sold out already. No luck today.

We stopped by a café to try a local dessert hurmasice and orange juice which cost 10 BAM. I didn't really enjoy it to be honest. We returned back to the old town, just browsing along looking for souvenirs. 

local dessert hurmasice

After buying mineral water from the supermarket, we walked back to our apartment and called it a day. We washed our clothes today since there is a washing machine. I purposely searched for the facility when doing the booking. There is no extra charge and the washing powder was also provided.