So we are on this road with our little Volkswagen
really super back-country type of road
and um we just wanted a shorter route
-we had to turn around because our little Volkswagen rental couldn't
quite make it through the mud and the high rocks and stuff
so it was kind of scary
Moma had to go inch by inch and especially in a manual car it was like rolling
and the edge here is like kind of a cliff
so that was a little adventure we had today
but yeah super windy back-country road
we're gonna head back to Drvengrad to get some breakfast and hopefully
we can go to Sarajevo from there
The bridge was built by Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic
who was one of the most important people in the Ottoman Empire
and he was actually taken from *Bosnia as a kid to fight in this Turkish army
-wow
but he was a Serbian boy
when he was coming back
he remembered the place where they took him-
-transported him across the river and then he decided build the bridge
-so this is where he got transported back? -wow
so it's built in 1571. -16th century
wow there's even a seat and everything
it's a nice bridge here in Višegrad, Bosnia
if you listen closely you can hear the prayers announced at the mosque
and you should definitely now read the book the nobel prize winning book
Bridge on the Drina
because it's telling the story -noble prize winning book about this bridge
yeah i should read it -I should get on that
so the same director that built Drvengrad also built this "Stone City" in Bosnia
and we actually saw the director in Drvengrad
he was looking at me and then Moma recognized him and then when Moma was like
"oh professora" or whatever he said to him the guy just kind of ignored us
and but he also built this little
city for Ivo Andric which is the guy that wrote the book about the bridge over the Drina
So we're checking out his little second city here
and Moma is in the church now
and um it's just weird to me that one guy can like build an entire (mini) city