vegetarian in Sarajevo
by picek
You can eat excellent and local vegetarian food in Sarajevo. I speak of pitas which are sold in burkedzinicas, very nice stuff which fills your stomach easy. It is pastry filled with vegetable or cheese (white one) and baked.
There are few you could try depends on what kind of vegetarian you are:
zeljanica: it is with spinach like vegetable + white cheese
krompirusa: small and tiny pieces of potato inside, my favourite
sirnica: white cheese in pastry
tikvenjaca: zucchini pumpkin in pastry, these are not sold everywhere but very nice
Pita ispod saca... is when these pastries are baked in some kind of dish and coal (the best way to prepare them - see 2nd picture).
Usually these pitas are eaten with yoghurt, which is really nice combination + yog here is in liquid form, very good.
Another thing which we love to eat here are variety of salads, especially 'shopska' or 'srpska' salads, and lepinja with kajmak from time to time.
Downtown Sarajevo before the war
by karenincalifornia
This is an example of the beautiful architecture in prewar Sarajevo. My slides and photos are 18 years old and many were not labeled. I am still trying to identify buildings. If you can help with this one, please send me a note. Did this survive the war?
The earth
by craic
I know it is partly because of the difficult circumstances that the country has recently found itself in - but I have never been anywhere where the people tend the earth so assiduously - or to such good effect. The soil seemed so fertile, and the gardens so productive. As we drove around every patch of space in a front garden was under production. I saw people bent to the earth everywhere I looked. Old ladies in black picking strawberries. Young men hoeing neat rows. A contented cow on a tether lying down chewing her cud watching a whole family planting potatoes. Our bus passed through a cherry orchard on its way to a monastery and I was in 7th heaven. And the produce was offered to us by hawkers when our bus stopped so I can tell you it was very very good. I was told that very few chemicals or sprays are used in producing this bounty. I surmised that when you have huge stretches of the same crop - that is when diseases can start to take hold. This patchwork production offers protection. I may be wrong about this.
Asim Ferhatovic Hase Stadium
by HORSCHECK
Sarajevo's Asim Ferhatovic Hase Stadium is the former Olympic Stadium, which was home to the 1984 Winter Olympic games. It is also known as Kosevo Stadium, which was its name from 1952 until 2004.
The stadium was built in 1947 and underwent massive renovations in 1984 before the Olympic games and in 1996 after the war.
Nowadays the stadium has a capacity of 37.500 and the local football club FK Sarajevo as well as the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina use the stadium as their home ground. The football ground is surrounded by athletics tracks.
Directions:
The Asim Ferhatovic Hase Stadium is located about 3 km north of Sarajevo's city centre. To get to the area we took trolleybus #102 in the direction of Jezero.
Website: http://www.fcsarajevo.ba/
Biggest "hamburger" ever - at night in Sarajevo
by WanderingFinn
This was a funny thing to see and experience: we had already earlier noticed that locals park their car on pedestrian walkways and bus stops (short time parking). No matter if it is a little difficult to get your car up there on the pavement.
We had been driven around Republika Srpska the whole evening and were hungry like wolves; it was midnight. We didn't see any parking places either, so up and in the middle of the bus stop under the roof! Then behind the queue in the middle of local guys. The queue moved fast, luckily. We thought we bought something usual, hamburger or local corresponding fast food.
When we got the bags...the what-ever-food it was, it was HUGE. I've never seen such before. We took the food with us to our motel room and ate it there. In the picture I've already eaten one third of it and still have this much left - not to speak about what cannot be seen and is inside the paper bag...
And the price was really reasonable. I warmly recommend to be brave and try all kinds of local delicacies.
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pleasures of eating out
Inside Sarajevo train station (Zeljenicka stancia)
Latin Bridge
Sebilj Fountain
