Sunday 4th October

We met at 8.45 at Mostar Gymnasium. Then we gathered in a bus which was paid for by Mostar Gymnasium. The bus took us to a catholic church called Medugorje. We had to remain silent and wear long pants to show respect to the catholic users of the church. We saw the statue of Mother Mary who is told to have been seen around the church by some local people in 1981.A strange experience was when we saw two women touching the knees of a Jesus statue. The explanation was that an architectonic mistake courses that when it rains, water comes out of Jesus’ knees, and the church users have turned into a religious phenomenon. We also saw large groups of people praying outside the church in some kind of labyrinth.

After that, we drove with the bus to the Kravica waterfall. This was 25metres high, and it was extraordinary to see such a beautiful view compared to the wannabe-rivers in Denmark.

We also went to see a reconstruction of how a village from the area would have looked like in old days. It had little houses and stables with a few different kinds of animals. Afterwards we had some sandwiches in the bus to take the worst hunger.

After we had sandwiches, we moved on to some ruins. A myth says that this was the town called Troy in ancient times, and that Achilleus’ adventures went on here.

Pocitelj was an old castle on a mountainside near the Neretva River. It was very hard to climb the mountain, but the refreshings in shape of pomegranates and figs helped a lot. There was a mosque which was open to curious tourist.

After a long trip on a warm, sunny day, we went home with care, because we had to watch out for the hooligans who could be very violent. Everybody had a rest, and afterwards we went to the billiard club to have a coke/juice or two. At last we all went tired to bed to be well rested for the wonderful upcoming next day.

Written by Christoffer, Søren and Ditte Sofie