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.
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.
Nato pakt je sa Alijom Izmetbegović dogovorio zločin u Srebrenici tako što su oficiri nato pakta i ratni zločinac naser orić pripremili i poveli borce 27-me divizije u smrt odnosno nemogući proboj prema Tuzli kroz jake srbske položaje gdje je dosta boraca izginulo u neravnopravnoj borbi,dezorjentisani,međusobnim,borbi između dvije vatre,srbske artiljerije itd i to je bio dogovoreni povod bombardovanje nato pakta srbskih položaja da okončaju građanski rat u BiH i svedu Srbe sa 72% teritorije koju su držali na već dogovoreni nametnuti dejtonski mirovni plan 49% za Republiku Srbsku i 51% za Federaciju Hrvata i Muslimana.Poslije toga su svi gledali kako da ostvare svoje interese i političke ciljeve.Muslimani su htjeli islamsku džamahiriju BiH koju su otvoreno zastupali na čelu sa vođom Alijom Izmetbegovićem gdje bi bili većina i u donošenju odluka kao mnogobrojniji uvijek preglasali Hrvate i Srbe.Nezadovoljni dejtonskim sporazumom su iskoristili svoje poginule borce iz proboja njih 1000,samo vojnosposobni muškarci sahranjeni u zajedničku grobnicu da ih prebace u Potočare i onda nastaje stvaranje mita zvani Srebrenica.Počinju uvećavati broj poginulih tako što iz čitave BiH dovlače poginule žrtve rata,umrle prirodnom smrću u tom periodu,žrtve saobraćaja,dosta živih ljudi se našlo na tom lažnom spisku Srebrenice koji su izbjeglice po čitavom svijetu gdje su dostigli cifru od 8000 a cilj je da zaokruže na 10 hiljada u budućnosti.Razlog mita Srebrenice je da su samo Muslimani u BiH žrtve rata i da kao takvi polažu pravo na unitarnu BiH koju su htjeli prije rata a i dalje je sanjaju jer javno traže ukidanje Dejtona i ukidanje entiteta Republike Srpske.Drugi razlog je da skinu sa sebe odgovornost izazivanja ratnog sukoba u BiH jer su "sda" teroristi ubili Nikolu Gardovića prva žrtva i to srbska i to je bio početak rata u BiH.Srbi su takođe nezadovoljni Dejtonom jer im je nato alijansa silom oduzela 23% teritorije na kojoj su Srbi živili vijekovima ali su prihvatili Republiku Srbsku i druga opcija za njih ne postoji.Hrvati su takođe nezadovoljni Dejtonom jer su ugurani u Federaciju umjesto da je formiran treći entitet Herceg Bosna.Svi smo sretni u našoj nakaradnoj,vještačkoj,nametnutoj tvorevini BiH i bivšoj Jugi odakle svi bježe glavom bez obzira osim političara i uhljeba koji sve ovo dobro znaju i igrajući na ove karte nesmetano pljačkaju i uvećavaju svoje bogatstvo.Pobjednik situacije je Nato alijansa je jer postigla svoje strateške ciljeve a svoje zločine bombardovanja Srba u BiH a kasnije Srbije osiromašenim uranijumom i rasturanja suverene države Jugoslavije svu krivicu prebacili na žrtve rata što su ozvaničili formiranjem svog ličnog nato suda nazvan haški tribunal gdje su svoje saradnike oslobađali i nagrađivali a nepodobne osuđivali i kažnjavali i izbjegli eventualnu ratnu odštetu koja bi se pojavila u budućnosti.
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.
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.
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
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 🤠
@@808hubb 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.
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.
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!
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.
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
@@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
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.
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
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.
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!
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
@@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
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)! 😮😊👍
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.
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 :)
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.
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!!
Koja dobrota ljudi, ovi iz Čuhovića, kako jednostavan i fantastičan narod, duševni, čistog srca. Bosna je jedina od svih 6 republika sa ovako gostoljubivim narodom.
@@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 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
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
Kerovi are dogs(slang), "namazati krišku" means put something on bread to eat. It's a sweet gesture that bosnian mothers do to their children while they're playing. A kriška is a slice of bread. Babo means dad, she tried to explain her whole family to you in bosnian lol
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.
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 ?
I would like to see these places someday.. the rural areas looked great, I enjoy the forests a lot. The history of an region and the peoples stories really are incredible.. if I can ever get to Europe and visit my ancestral homelands.. I would love to see Eastern Europe.. all of it.
I have been interested in Bosnia ever since the 1990s when I was a child. Its nice to see a video which doesnt only show the typical Sarajevo sites that always show up in documentaries. The proliferation of nationalist symbolism in the form of non-Bosnian flags is fairly significant. Your focus on Turkish architectural elements is fairly interesting as well. That gets racialized when ethnic tensions flare with many ultra-nationalists calling the Bosniak "Turks" (they aren't.). Okay the Olympic site shows up in many videos... but your time with the ethnic German and the old couple in that remote village speaks volumes about the culture and people - in ways that most journalists have a hard time doing. Perhaps it's the fact that they are seen as journalists and that changes how people interact with them. Or perhaps it is your Slavic cultural manner of interacting with rural folks and your understanding of how Slavic hospitality works. In any event, thanks.
The reason they are called Turks is not based on ethnicity rather for their betrayal and converting to Islam based on lower taxes and better threat meant by the Turkish while Christians have been second class citizens and have been the subject of slavery under Islamic jurisprudence
Ofcourse that Croatian people will raise croatian flag because they were unwanted people there in the war, like they don't belong there although they are natives there.
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 :)
Hi, I speak Russian, English and German. Used to learn Czech for several months. Thanks to this, I more or less understand (but not speak) some Slavic languages because they have a lot in common with Russian (my native language).
@@ivantrainsLIVE No worries man, it's a great video and probably one of the most impressive things about it for me was how you were able to handle so many different languages so well. Looking forward to seeing more videos 👍
This place reminds me of here in California in how varied and diverse the population is. You see influences of all the different peoples that live there in the environment and the architecture it’s pretty fascinating
Bosnian war was tragic. They were almost ehtnic cleansed by serbs just becoz of their religion. Thanks to Bosniak Mujahideen and Iranain Weapons they defended their country and religion well
There were no "Bosniak mujahideen", those who were, came from abroad. And Bosniaks defended their right to exist regardless of personal belief, not a religion.
I would just like to add that you were street away where Gavrilo Princip killed Franz Ferdinand which spared World War I and changed the course of the world. Sarajevo is such a beautiful city. Also at 17:05 you can see behind an Eternal Flame which symbolized unification of Yugoslavia back in Tito's time (that turned out well).
The Israeli flags are there mostly because the biggest company in Mostar, Mostar Aluminij, has recently been bought by an Israeli businessman so there have been some flags and even billboards congratulating Jewish religious holidas. Very weird
It's because that businenesman is helping it's football club, Zrinski, he is investing much money there so it became very succesful club last years, even succesfully playing in Europe
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.
Nato pakt je sa Alijom Izmetbegović dogovorio zločin u Srebrenici tako što su oficiri nato pakta i ratni zločinac naser orić pripremili i poveli borce 27-me divizije u smrt odnosno nemogući proboj prema Tuzli kroz jake srbske položaje gdje je dosta boraca izginulo u neravnopravnoj borbi,dezorjentisani,međusobnim,borbi između dvije vatre,srbske artiljerije itd i to je bio dogovoreni povod bombardovanje nato pakta srbskih položaja da okončaju građanski rat u BiH i svedu Srbe sa 72% teritorije koju su držali na već dogovoreni nametnuti dejtonski mirovni plan 49% za Republiku Srbsku i 51% za Federaciju Hrvata i Muslimana.Poslije toga su svi gledali kako da ostvare svoje interese i političke ciljeve.Muslimani su htjeli islamsku džamahiriju BiH koju su otvoreno zastupali na čelu sa vođom Alijom Izmetbegovićem gdje bi bili većina i u donošenju odluka kao mnogobrojniji uvijek preglasali Hrvate i Srbe.Nezadovoljni dejtonskim sporazumom su iskoristili svoje poginule borce iz proboja njih 1000,samo vojnosposobni muškarci sahranjeni u zajedničku grobnicu da ih prebace u Potočare i onda nastaje stvaranje mita zvani Srebrenica.Počinju uvećavati broj poginulih tako što iz čitave BiH dovlače poginule žrtve rata,umrle prirodnom smrću u tom periodu,žrtve saobraćaja,dosta živih ljudi se našlo na tom lažnom spisku Srebrenice koji su izbjeglice po čitavom svijetu gdje su dostigli cifru od 8000 a cilj je da zaokruže na 10 hiljada u budućnosti.Razlog mita Srebrenice je da su samo Muslimani u BiH žrtve rata i da kao takvi polažu pravo na unitarnu BiH koju su htjeli prije rata a i dalje je sanjaju jer javno traže ukidanje Dejtona i ukidanje entiteta Republike Srpske.Drugi razlog je da skinu sa sebe odgovornost izazivanja ratnog sukoba u BiH jer su "sda" teroristi ubili Nikolu Gardovića prva žrtva i to srbska i to je bio početak rata u BiH.Srbi su takođe nezadovoljni Dejtonom jer im je nato alijansa silom oduzela 23% teritorije na kojoj su Srbi živili vijekovima ali su prihvatili Republiku Srbsku i druga opcija za njih ne postoji.Hrvati su takođe nezadovoljni Dejtonom jer su ugurani u Federaciju umjesto da je formiran treći entitet Herceg Bosna.Svi smo sretni u našoj nakaradnoj,vještačkoj,nametnutoj tvorevini BiH i bivšoj Jugi odakle svi bježe glavom bez obzira osim političara i uhljeba koji sve ovo dobro znaju i igrajući na ove karte nesmetano pljačkaju i uvećavaju svoje bogatstvo.Pobjednik situacije je Nato alijansa je jer postigla svoje strateške ciljeve a svoje zločine bombardovanja Srba u BiH a kasnije Srbije osiromašenim uranijumom i rasturanja suverene države Jugoslavije svu krivicu prebacili na žrtve rata što su ozvaničili formiranjem svog ličnog nato suda nazvan haški tribunal gdje su svoje saradnike oslobađali i nagrađivali a nepodobne osuđivali i kažnjavali i izbjegli eventualnu ratnu odštetu koja bi se pojavila u budućnosti.
Bosnian Muslims are very simple people.
Poor guys they have suffered the most heinous genocide from 1992 to 1995 by Serbs.
@@Ofhumanbondage-z5wTo je laž i lažni mit o izmišljenom genocidu nad poturčenim dijelom stanovništva
It s crazy, 1500 years of seperation and you could still hold a basic conversation between russian and jugoslavian, SlavicConnection.
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..
@@gocegajdoski3331 Macedonian dialects? Are you stupid, or what?
@@gocegajdoski3331I want the crack that you're smoking Gotse
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!
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.
I'm old enough to have watched it on TV.
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!
30:50 Nas dobri narod i gostoprimstvo ❤
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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.
As a Bosnian, its lovely to see videos like this, thank you brother❤
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
@@808hubb 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
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.
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!
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.
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 🤠
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!
Обожаю такой контент, побольше бы таких видео и общения с местными людьми)
Lovely people and absolutely fascinating ..thanks -from Ireland.
Du sprichst auch Deutsch 👍😎
Schönes Video wie immer!
Grüße aus Ungarn 🇭🇺
Your English gets better in every new video. Proud of you and enjoy your content. Keep up the good work.
i didnt know you spoke German as well!? amazing! thank you for this first rate video. educational and entertaining. здоровье!
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.
Love your interactions with locals and their different cultures
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.
Outstanding scenery, improvising, and communicating. This is on a whole other level.
Thank you for Posting this :)
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.
Your work is superb. Really enjoy it.
Anytime you come to Brazil give me a shout!
Better text my on Instagram @vagafuckabond
Balkans in general are such a beautiful place.
Absolutely gorgeous cities and country, however it's tragic past should not be forgotten. Great video
Great job, thanks for showing us a new perspective on the complexities of B&H!
Thanks for the historical content of where you were visiting. Your content is awesome!
the bosniaks are so nice and I can feel the warmth of welcoming. They deserve peace as everyone does
Thank you. There are so little videos out there showing and exploring bosnia or serbia.
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!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video! Such a beautiful country. Make love not war!!
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
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)! 😮😊👍
Well done! Real reporting. Always wanted to hop a freight train. Keep on traveling and reporting!
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.
this vlog makes me want to travle to Bosnia Herzegovina!
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Dobro nam došao 🤠
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Love the backstory you present with each video.
Your videos are absolutely brilliant. Very interesting to learn about different countries whilst also having original visual content to scan at.
I really love your channel.
Very nice video! I always look forward to your videos and the history lessons and talks with local people that you include.
Love the video! Big fan of the longer videos!
Love your stuff, vaga bond!
It's a huge shame about the train hopping issue with UA-cam. I love falling sleep to your videos and those past knock me out so fast.
Why? He doesnt upload them anymore??
@@pripyat.sadboi8092 UA-cam considers it violent.
Enjoying the video so far, hope that you're doing well and thanks for the upload!
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 :)
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) .
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
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!!
Your videos are great yo. Most informative and a look at something I will never see in my lifetime.
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
Very nice Serbocroatian-Russian xD Und auch gutes Deutsch! xD Schönes Video, hvala
Bro Your Video's Are So Informative ❤
What a beautiful country... such a brutally tragic history.
I love these conversations with the locals
Koja dobrota ljudi, ovi iz Čuhovića, kako jednostavan i fantastičan narod, duševni, čistog srca. Bosna je jedina od svih 6 republika sa ovako gostoljubivim narodom.
Bujrum 🤠
I love me some Vagabond
Always delivers an interesting 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
Nice video ! 😊 Come to Bosnia again in summer time, then it is more beautiful ! 😊❤
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
Kerovi are dogs(slang), "namazati krišku" means put something on bread to eat. It's a sweet gesture that bosnian mothers do to their children while they're playing. A kriška is a slice of bread. Babo means dad, she tried to explain her whole family to you in bosnian lol
How sweet. Well, at least I was thinking in that direction 😅
@@ivantrainsLIVE just finsihed the video, thank you so much. I live in BiH, and never saw most of these places :)
awesome video...nice work, sir!
I was there in September. Sarajevo and Mostar. Loved it.
Going in winter seems strange
You’re subscribers jumped past 100K while I wasn’t looking. Congratulations!🎉
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 think they said "da jedeš" at 32:09 - "(for you) to eat"
Loved your video.
Very well done. Thank you.
Also Shiey was in Mostar in the last videos
Great video, wish you could come again during summer. It will definitely be more lively :)
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 would like to see these places someday.. the rural areas looked great, I enjoy the forests a lot. The history of an region and the peoples stories really are incredible.. if I can ever get to Europe and visit my ancestral homelands.. I would love to see Eastern Europe.. all of it.
You should show what you eat on your adventures, im interested in that. Great videos брат.
Whoa ! Hold on ! Bosnian civilian war ??? Bosnians were attacked by Serbia and Croatia and you try to say as if we killed ourselves ! Not cool.
Well yes... We killed each other... You guys know there are over 1 Mio Serbs?
Croatia took in 300,000 muslim refugees after 1992, while Croatia was attacked from Bosnian territory in 1991.
Yeah so U says Tudjman and Milosevic negotiate humanitarian action for Bosnia in Karadjordjevo? 😅 psst remember uzp and covicts.
It was by definition a civil war, no matter how much you try to change history.
Amazing place, Thank you Ivan !
your vids are dope, geiles Brot von gestern
❤ Brot ist heilig
Thanks for sharing, hope you good
Your English has improved so much, impressive.
The fact that Mostar was almost entirely leveled in the war and still exists is astonishing.
love the vids
I have been interested in Bosnia ever since the 1990s when I was a child. Its nice to see a video which doesnt only show the typical Sarajevo sites that always show up in documentaries. The proliferation of nationalist symbolism in the form of non-Bosnian flags is fairly significant. Your focus on Turkish architectural elements is fairly interesting as well. That gets racialized when ethnic tensions flare with many ultra-nationalists calling the Bosniak "Turks" (they aren't.).
Okay the Olympic site shows up in many videos... but your time with the ethnic German and the old couple in that remote village speaks volumes about the culture and people - in ways that most journalists have a hard time doing. Perhaps it's the fact that they are seen as journalists and that changes how people interact with them. Or perhaps it is your Slavic cultural manner of interacting with rural folks and your understanding of how Slavic hospitality works.
In any event, thanks.
The reason they are called Turks is not based on ethnicity rather for their betrayal and converting to Islam based on lower taxes and better threat meant by the Turkish while Christians have been second class citizens and have been the subject of slavery under Islamic jurisprudence
Interacted only with the Muslims
Some of them are ethnic Turks or part Turks i.e: Izetbegovic family.
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Ofcourse that Croatian people will raise croatian flag because they were unwanted people there in the war, like they don't belong there although they are natives there.
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 :)
Hi, How many languages can you speak? I enjoy your vlogs.
Hi, I speak Russian, English and German. Used to learn Czech for several months. Thanks to this, I more or less understand (but not speak) some Slavic languages because they have a lot in common with Russian (my native language).
Great video nice to hear the German language I could understand him.
Woher kommst du?
37:06 just a note that "Sein Opa und mein Opa waren Brüder" is him talking about their grandfathers being brothers, not their fathers
Indeed, I made a mistake. Thank you for your attention.
@@ivantrainsLIVE No worries man, it's a great video and probably one of the most impressive things about it for me was how you were able to handle so many different languages so well. Looking forward to seeing more videos 👍
Greatings from Zavidovici 👋
By the way the reason is theirs a Bruce Lee statue is because he was the only person that all three ethnicities could agree on.
This place reminds me of here in California in how varied and diverse the population is.
You see influences of all the different peoples that live there in the environment and the architecture it’s pretty fascinating
Hvala ti na lijepom prikazu naše lijepe Domovine ❤
Another great video!
Bosnian war was tragic. They were almost ehtnic cleansed by serbs just becoz of their religion. Thanks to Bosniak Mujahideen and Iranain Weapons they defended their country and religion well
There were no "Bosniak mujahideen", those who were, came from abroad. And Bosniaks defended their right to exist regardless of personal belief, not a religion.
I would just like to add that you were street away where Gavrilo Princip killed Franz Ferdinand which spared World War I and changed the course of the world. Sarajevo is such a beautiful city. Also at 17:05 you can see behind an Eternal Flame which symbolized unification of Yugoslavia back in Tito's time (that turned out well).
The Israeli flags are there mostly because the biggest company in Mostar, Mostar Aluminij, has recently been bought by an Israeli businessman so there have been some flags and even billboards congratulating Jewish religious holidas. Very weird
It's because that businenesman is helping it's football club, Zrinski, he is investing much money there so it became very succesful club last years, even succesfully playing in Europe