- Where are you from?
Will they say "I'm Bosnian"
or they will come up with a "but"?
(Timam chuckling) So you're the local.
- Okay, so now.
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♪ Try to catch me howling at the moon ♪
- Timam, Timam. - Timam.
- And Buenos Dias and hello.
We have a really particular legend.
When you drink the water from this pipe here
you'll come back to Sarajevo one day.
So if you drink from the opposite one,
you'll be stuck here like me.
The third legend is probably the most dangerous one.
So if you drink from both ends this one
and that one you'll get married here.
(Ale laughing) So be careful.
- And behind this with have all the pigeons.
We don't really know why they're there
but we suspect they know it's a food spot.
So they keep coming back.
Not many people know
that you have a lot of different religions in this country.
So my question is what are these religions?
And can you live in peace?
- Three people groups, which are ethnically Bosniaks, Croats
and Serbs or in terms of religion, the first are Muslims,
the second are Orthodox, and the Catholics.
This city is called the Jerusalem
of Europe or the Jerusalem of the Balkans.
That's why we have a mosque, this synagogue,
a Catholic church, and an Orthodox church in 200 meters.
And you can find that only in Jerusalem and in Sarajevo.
So after so many centuries of living together
as one society, we don't have any problems.
Mixed marriages are really common in Sarajevo.
We are standing here symbolically
in this formerly the Jewish part of the city.
During the Holocaust, many Muslims chose
to save their Jew neighbors from the Nazis.
This is the best example
of how normal the people in Sarajevo are.
And I hope one day when you guys visit, you'll see
that Sarajevo is a really vivid, open minded and nice city.
- It's good to know that that's what
'cause I married a Lithuanian.
We mixed countries.
Here can even mix religions as well.
Pretty good and pretty open.
This is very interesting.
We were talking about identity.
I have Latvian friends.
Most of them would say, "Yeah, I was born in Latvia
"but my parents are from Russia."
How is identity here in Bosnia?
If you ask right now, anybody on the street,
"Where are you from?"
Will they say "I'm Bosnian"
or they will come up with a "But"?
(Timam laughing) So you're the local.
- Okay, so now talking to Alejandro,
we kind of have an agreement to say that the West
and East of Europe still have some pretty big differences
especially with identity.
In Bosnia, we already mentioned
that the three big people groups
but many of the Croats and Serbs ethnically
they would say they were born in Bosnia,
they live in Bosnia
but they consider themselves Serbs and Croats
and that their homeland is Serbia or Croatia.
The reason is I mean complicated,
but religion has a really big role here in the Balkans,
not just Bosnia but all of ex-Yugoslavia
in which people who are Serbs, they adhere
to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
And those things are just like equalized.
If you're a Serb by default, it means you will be someone
who is Orthodox.
And if you are a Croat, it means you will be a Catholic.
Still means that if you are Catholic,
you will have really big ties to Croatia.
Even if you weren't born there,
even if your parents weren't born there,
you will still consider Croatia as homeland.
And the same thing for Serbia.
That's the way it is.
You have the big impact of our neighboring countries.
And I mean, the Balkans such a complicated place probably.
Where you have the peoples from all of the countries
ex-Yugoslav living in other countries
and this is what is the outcome.
- In simple words, 'cause I think there's a lot
of confusion about Yugoslavia.
What is actually Yugoslavia?
Where is Bosnia in this story?
Was ever part of Soviet Union?
Maybe just for people that are not
from this area to clarify.
And I know it's probably very obvious for you
but I think it's helpful to clarify.
- Of course.
Yugoslavia was a country that existed
in most of the twentieth century,
Had, well six, republics which are like states in the USA.
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia
and now of course you have the disputed area of Kosovo.
Kosovo and Vojvodin, those were like autonomous territories.
So those were like fully eight parts of Yugoslavia.
Kosovo is dispute, it depends who you ask.
And Vojvodin is fully a part of Serbia.
That's the north part.
This country after the Second World War was communist.
But don't confuse it was never a part of the Soviet Union.
Yugoslavia and Soviet Union had really big differences.
There was almost a war and the President of Yugoslavia
Tito, was really a big critic of Stalin.
When Stalin threatened Yugoslavia
and Tito for not joining the communist countries
in Europe controlled by the Soviets,
Stalin sent a jar of rice to Tito.
Yugoslavia is small.
You can't compare.
And then Tito, the President, sent Stalin a jar
of hot peppers.
How spicy we are.
(laughing)
So imagine that was the only man
that supposedly Stalin feared.
And when he died, well then the Soviet Union tried
to find some common language with Yugoslavia
and the country persisted till the nineties
when sadly war separated us.
And today you have the different countries.
- Different countries and some
of those countries, similar languages
- Yes, Bosnian and Serbian, Montenegrin
and Croatian are one language.
It just accents of our same language.
You can compare it to American and British English.
Like you guys can understand each other.
Fully we can understand each other.
It's just, I mean, politics that separates us.
Slovenian and Macedonian,
to be fair, are a bit more different.
Even in Slovenia and Macedonia
most people - - You can understand
each other. - Speak our language.
Just learn one and then find yourself in six countries.
And well it's enough.
- Insane, the amount of things untold or unheard.
So it's always good to be here.
The next thing that people don't know here is mountains
and ski.
They have a lot of ski resorts.
Snow at the moment as well.
They held the winter Olympics in the eighties.
This is actually a big thing.
You can see it in all the city.
Symbols and stuff around Olympics.
So anyway, go back to hotel quickly, change batteries,
pick up the drone and let's go to the mountain.
I think I underestimated how cold it is here
in Sarajevo in Bosnia.
Minus three degrees at the moment.
My nose is red.
I look like a clown.
So I couldn't go to the mountains tonight.
They didn't advise to do so.
The cable car is not working.
You can probably go by taxi,
but then you need to do like some hiking.
And they told me it's not safe.
You know, you have animals
and I will go tomorrow at 7:00 AM.
Welcome to the heaven.
Welcome to Sarajevo mountains.
I was last month in the Caribbean, in Miami, in The Bahamas.
Now freezing again here.
And this place is so cool.
Like people here, it was such a surprise for me
because normally at least me in Eastern Europe
from experience, sometimes you have people
that, you know, are more shy or conservative.
Not necessarily like, you know
laughing and smiling all the time,
but fine it's part of the culture.
Here is the opposite.
Like people are smiling
and people are so gentle, helpful, polite
willing to talk, know more about you.
They speak English everywhere I go.
Like, wow, wow!
And the city is beautiful, like Sarajevo.
We're going to Mostar in two hours.
So I'm super, super pumped and hyped.
I'm actually loving, loving Bosnia.
Never, ever judge a book by its cover.
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