Mostar, Bosnia & Hercegovina

Mostar is a town in Bosnia. If you walk around the whole town you are going to see bullet holes in buildings. I think that the abandoned buildings look cool, but really the bullet holes aren't there to look cool.

The reason for the bullet holes is that there was a recent war thirty years ago. Most adults that lived there would've been in the war. My mum would’ve been eleven years old when it started.

There is also an old town in Mostar, built in the 15th century by the Ottomans. There is a river running through the old town, splitting it in two. The roofs of the houses in the old town were made of a flat stone to be extra careful during the war.

The war was between the Serbians and the Bosnian land when Bosnia wanted to break away from Yugoslavia. The war lasted for three years. People weren’t allowed to go in and out of their towns so when people died they had to turn parks into grave yards. They also had to do it at night, so that the soldiers surrounding the town wouldn’t shoot.

It must’ve been scary in that war so I am glad I wasn’t alive and that New Zealand is so far away.