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Jajce & Pliva Lakes (Bosnia)

Wednesday was my last night in Sarajevo, and luckily it was free wine and cheese night at my hostel. So, I sat around with all the other solo travelers and had Bosnian wine and cheese. Hooray! It was basically a gathering of the Sarajevo Chapter of the Budapest Fan Club, if such a thing were to exist.

Thursday morning I left for Jajce, where I had booked two nights at a hostel with no reviews online yet. One of the girls from the Budapest Fan Club had stayed there, though, so I had a small idea of what to expect.

I was picked up from the bus stop by a girl, Vinko, who works at the hostel, not that the bus stop was far away, but that it might have been impossible to find the place without help. (Jajce isn't really on Google Maps.) The hostel was being remodeled...or maybe it just wasn't completed, but there was basically nothing but rooms and a kitchen. Reception was located in Vinko's purse. She gave me the key to my room, I paid her, and she left me to it. I had booked an eight-bed dorm, but I ended up in a private room with a private bathroom since there weren't very many people staying there.

The next day I walked to Pliva Lakes, about five kilometers away from Jajce. It's not really a pedestrian-friendly route, so I was walking on the side of a highway for most of the time. There were tons of roadkill frogs on the road, but I didn't see any live ones. Lots of lizards, though. There are a bunch of little waterfalls and in one place, seventeen miniature watermills. I don't know what a watermill is, but they sure were cute. And little.

I sat down on a bench for a snack, and as I was rummaging around for my bar of halva, I found a shot glass that was signed by people from my hostel on Tuesday in Sarajevo. We had kind of been celebrating my birthday and they must have put it there while I was still at the bar, awww! I busted out laughing as soon as I saw it. I will always think of them as I'm having tequila shots from my special glass! Hahaha!

When I got back to Jajce, I went to the Fortress. You have to find some guy who's wandering around in the area to unlock it for 1 KM (about 75 cents). I had the place to myself after that. I think I might have been the only tourist in Jajce because I had pretty much everything to myself. It was fun!

That night I made dinner at the hostel and as I was about to wash my dishes, the creepy old dude who might have been the only other person staying there walked in, and I just flipped out and booked it back to my room. That's the only time I've left my dishes unwashed, but I feel justified because he creeped me out.

My bus to Split left at 6 in the morning and I think I slept about one hour the entire night, but I did manage to sleep a bit on the bus. So now I'm in Split! Yay! Who knows what craaaazy adventures I'll have next?