so far in my serbia series we've scaled brutalist architecture in belgrade marveled at the divine
city of Subotica been caught in an endless downpour in Novi Sad and Sombor and explored
the history of zastava in Kragujevac as well as being blown away by the fiery colours of the
autumnal countryside on the Sargan Eight train and at a secluded monastery near Bajina Basta.
next time we'll be in Krusevac and Nis but today we're back in western serbia we've already seen
Užice's magnificent fortress perched atop a rocky precipice and eaten at the famous Suljage
but this time we're going one step further what else is there to discover
in Užice and what can you find just a short bus ride away in Kadinjaca let's find out
good morning everyone does this look familiar
it should do because yes we're in we should say again i bet you thought you'd seen
the back of us say right since the last video but i've never left right so all this time i've
been staying in ugh and in the last video i did say that i wanted to do another one
because there were a few things in that video i didn't get a chance to do so here we are
we're at Velika Brana the big dam or should i say damn someone's added an n
oh my god you can't really see because of the sun it's a good job i already flew the drone this dam
is to do with that hydroelectric power station i think it dates back to like the early 1900s and
it's obviously very much connected to nikola tesla and everything you've got these wonderful
views these lovely greens bridges in the distance and basically it's located a little bit further
on from where i was in the last video i got to tunnel number 13 this one is 14
and the dam is just over there i don't know if there's any way of getting closer but i
think there could be a possibility down here tunnel number 14 it looks very long and dark
but we're not going to go through there because basically all it is is just the old tunnels
going along the Djetina river but there is a hiking trail 8.5 kilometers all the way up there
needle rock i've got time to do that today and to be honest i can't be bothered um so we're gonna go
down here instead because as i was looking at that map i noticed a little staircase surely this must
go somewhere the river is down there so there's these old buildings down here but i can hear
sort of is it like electricity noise coming from them i don't know okay this could still be an
epic foul because there's barbed wire there and there's like a ledge down there and then the river
lovely but look at this oh yes here we go this could be success that thing kind of looks like
an old unexploded world war 2 bomb a doodle bug whatever that was um obviously it's not it's i
guess it's some sort of pipe where i don't know water comes out i don't know who knows
oh [ __ ] almost twisted my ankle this looks pretty from here doesn't it
ah pipe gate 2021 i'm not actually walking across a pipe i've gotta go under this tree
it's like the crystal maze
how pretty it's probably not my best idea because obviously it's autumn there are
leaves that are falling off the trees rocks and uh they're all covered in slippy moss
the worst i've reached the limit of my exploration
unless i develop the ability to walk on water i can't go any further look at that
that's the furthest i can go my ass i just have to crawl up there on my hands and knees
right there's a little path up here that we can get closer
to that waterfall and the dam i think this is it huns the big dam in uh did
i tell you it's 18 meters tall i can't remember but there's a dam and a waterfall
i could go down there but it just leads to the water and up there it just goes to the
top of the dam so this is the furthest you could get to but look at this and also look at that
so
let's try and get back to the center of Užice without dying
we're gonna have some food it's the same dish as i had last time completely
but it's at a different place we're gonna compare with Suljage i'll see you there
i've just teleported myself back to partisans square nice i think blue moon which is the other
place for Komplet Lepinja is up here and to the right if my map is correct
okay i think it's actually down here
all right is he gonna let me go yes thank you nope i was right the first time standing
oh there it is i see you blue moon now we just gotta hope that it's open yep
um i've come out with takeaway because uh copyrighted music can't film inside
so we'll sit down somewhere and see if this is up to the standard of Suljage
this will do
as last time i have yoghurt of course and here is the Komplet Lepinja in here let's have a look
oh okay looks wise it looks very similar it smells very similar
oh and inside also looks exactly the same i don't know what i was expecting right let's see if it's
any different after all i did notice in the blue moon place they didn't have like the wood burning
oven thing that they had in Suljage it was much more you know it was more modern and a metal thing
this is classic me kneeling on the ground eating okay let's just dive in honestly it
tastes exactly the same is it that it's just one recipe that the Suljage guys gave to blue moon
yeah there really is no difference egg kaymak dripping pretop as always and
i'm gonna do the thing that the guys were doing in the last place that i didn't do
they were like dipping it in like whatever
it doesn't make any difference to how it tastes okay after taking another bite i've
realized perhaps there may be a little bit more egg on this and also it's a bit saltier
than the Suljage one which is good i like it i'm gonna miss would you say mainly because
of this but also everything else that was nice i'm nice and full now it's just what i needed
we're um going to the bus station this is the last you'll see of Užice at least for now you
never know i might be back we're heading to our final spot it's actually 30 minutes out of town
so let's go up this way more ugh murals miroslav someone i believe that's a basketball player
there are a lot of comments on the last video with the one around the corner of the football player
on the subject of Užice it has joined my list of top tier elite destinations i shouldn't do
this when i'm walking along roads as in it's one place i could quite happily see myself staying in
for a long period you know it really makes a difference staying in a place for a long time
because you can really get to know the place and it's just so me it's quiet it's small it hasn't
got that same kind of metropolis effect as someone like belgrade not necessarily metropolis but you
know what i mean a bigger city but i've loved it so um you should say legendary one of the top
destinations ever and this bus station i feel like i've lived here the entire time because the amount
of times i've gone to other places to film videos and here i am again i'm going to be here again in
a couple of days when i leave as you'd say to head to Krusevac and Nis okay i've got about
half an hour a lot of bus stations in serbia you have to scan your little barcode to get into the
actual bus area and this bus is only 90 dinar that's about 90 cents in u.s it's the bus that's
going to Bajina Basta but we're not going there we've been there already we're going to Kadinjaca
here we are i'm off the bus Bajina Basta
that way look at this view over here let's check the road once again there's that mist
and the wonderful autumnal colors it's a bit grim at the moment it was raining
on the way here a little bit but we've come here to see this i've got a little dog friend
hello you know
oh it's quite literally a monumental monument concerning the workers battalion of Užice
back in 1941 there was a battle here and it seems that the dog is gonna come with us
so this huge monument in Kadinjaca is incredibly important in relation to serbian history and
particularly this area you might remember in the first Užice video i briefly mentioned that
back in 1941 Užice became its own republic i think it was called Užička republika however
that didn't last very long basically it was the first area in europe which gained freedom from
nazi occupying forces and right here there was a battle that was essentially like the final stand
i would say the workers battalion fought against advancing nazi forces and of course the nazis
retook this part of serbia they reoccupied Užice so therefore this monument is here to
commemorate those people that died in that battle it's huge so there's this part here with all these
large concrete structures going all the way off into the distance i believe construction
started here in 1952 i think it might have been that part with that bit in the middle i think
that's a crypt and it's got remains of the people that fought here underneath the rest of this was
then completed in 1979 and it was opened by josep tito back then this one here is probably the most
prominent it's a different design to the rest of them i'm not sure what the
significance of this is i think it's good these things still exist right because
for younger generations they wouldn't have a clue i wouldn't have a clue i wasn't alive back then
world war ii the way i look at it is quite bleak because i think of like world war one there was
the over-the-top thing where people soldiers would be told to go over the top of the trenches and
face the much superior advancing enemy where the only outcome would be death
certain death how do you even compute that in your head coming to these places is important in serbia
because even though each of them it's not commemorating exactly the same thing
it's all about commemorating the people that had to sacrifice themselves in such a horrendous way
what a setting how fitting that i'm ending my time in as you'd say by the uh
sign welcome or should i say goodbye
i'll definitely be back here i swear it's also goodbye to this crazy mutt
bye hun right the cars have gone past i was going to say there's a museum here as well um but as
in Mokra Gora i have about 10 minutes before the bus comes so i haven't got time here's another car
over the top as in going over top of the trenches that's where that expression comes from to go over
the top to be over the top i.e to act behave or react in an extreme manner because going over
the trenches was an extreme act i didn't know that until i googled it yesterday so anyway
that is you should say done not one video but two western serbia as a whole has been absolutely
bloody brilliant and i'm looking forward to coming back next up as i said we're going to
Krusevac and Nis i've been to niche before i was there for three weeks in 2020 and i filmed two
videos there you can check them out in the balkans playlist stay tuned for that if you
want to see them don't forget to subscribe like comment everything check out the end screens at
the end and i will see you next time there's the dog it's gone finally i'll catch you later