Tag: War

Visiting Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Memorial

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Most guide books and blogs won’t put Nanjing as a highlight to visit during a trip to China. It doesn’t have any impressive architecture such as Shanghai, or stunning scenery such as the Li river. However, Nanjing is definitely worth a visit if you are near. There is some beautiful natural landscape and lots to see in and around the Zijin (purple-gold) mountain. But the place you must visit in Nanjing is the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre. Here you will learn about the history of the city, the Rape of Nanjing as it is often referred to. On August …

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Sarajevo: More Beauty and War

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Unlike Mostar, to walk around Sarajevo you aren’t immediately greeted with reminders of the war. You see banks, bakeries, shops just like any other high street, but if you look down occasionally at the ground you will see splotches of red paint, symbolising where blood was shed during the war. It’s a unique city as within a small space in town there is a Christian Cathedral, Jewish Synagogue and Muslim Mosque. We met up with a lovely local while there who not only showed us a brilliant bar but also took us to the top of the hill and showed us …

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Mostar: Beauty and War

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We’d met a few people on our travels who had expressed how much they loved Bosnia and Hercegovina, so I was excited to see what all the fuss was about. We spent a couple of days in Dubrovnik and then headed up to Mostar, mostly famous for its stunning bridge, Stari Most. We looked at the picture in our Lonely Planet book and thought that it must be photoshopped – it didn’t look real, but it really was. That photo is real and it does look that beautiful in reality. I was beginning to see why people loved this country …

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