Day 5 - May 10 - Biking in Bosnia

 I was offered a delicious omelet with Bosnian coffee - it gave me energy for the pass that followed.

So it was a pass at 927 meters, apparently, called Komar, apparently, tat I cycled up with a full belly. I made quite a good time, thanks to the delicious breakfast. Funny, a year later, I rode from the other direction, but noticed that I was on the same road earlier only when I saw the sign of the pass...

This was the view back to the valley I had come from.

Later I reached the impressive city of Travnik. where I got a hair cut (for 3 Euros...), exchanged some money (in Bosnia, the Convertible Mark is used) and in a mosque, I visited a Koran school.

The town was really very pretty, it is also the birthplace of Ivo Andric, the author of Bridges on the Drina (Nobel Price for Literature in 1961).

It wasn't my dream of riding what followed. It was 90 km to Sarajevo and the road became super busy, but for that, rather narrow, with some drivers even honking at me. Things got worse close to Sarajevo - the road turned into a motorway, without an alternative for cyclists. Cars were roaring past me and I just hoped they would see me. The edge of the road where I was heading on was uneven - but I made it.

I had booked a 3-star hotel for 21 Euros called Hotel Grand - it was anything but. It was 124 km of riding, I checked in, left my luggage and rode to town.

I treated myself to a serving of çevapi in the old town and did another 10 km by sight-seeing.

Returning to my anything-but-grand hotel, I slept well in my tiny room, having ridden about 135 kilometers that day...