Travel
The Train in the Shape of an Eight: The Story of the Railway That Beat Šargan
Fifteen and a half kilometers of narrow-gauge track, 22 tunnels, and an eight-shaped loop. It once linked Belgrade with Sarajevo and the Adriatic; today it is a tourist train through Mokra Gora that many people still don’t know about.
The Best European Weekend Destinations: Cities That Don’t Need More Than Two Days
The true test of a good weekend destination isn't how much a city offers, but how well it works with just forty-eight hours. Great cities like Paris or Rome can easily swallow an entire week without ever feeling like you have seen enough.
Mehmed Pasha Sokolović Bridge: A Magnet for Tourists Visiting Višegrad
On the banks of the deep blue-green Drina River in Višegrad stands one of the region’s greatest historical and cultural monuments – the world-famous Mehmed Pasha Sokolović Bridge. Known through Ivo Andrić’s novel and built as an endowment of the Grand Vizier, the bridge was constructed between 1571 and 1577 under the supervision of Kodža Mimar Sinan, the most renowned Ottoman architect of his time.
The City Where the Workday Ends on a Mountaintop: Bergen Named the Best Place to Live in Europe
Picture a workday that doesn't end with a stressful commute home, but with a hike up a mountain trail overlooking an entire fjord, sunlight still hanging high over the water even though it's already past five in the afternoon. That's not a travel agency's marketing fantasy - it's everyday life in the city that has just been named the best place to live in Europe.
Hidden Corners Recommended by Vanja Mišić: From a Festival to a Village Revived by an Old School
Few people know the landscapes of Republika Srpska from as many different angles as Vanja Mišić does. A singer and journalist from Banja Luka, she has spent years crossing terrain most tourists never think to put on their map - from festival grounds deep inside national parks to villages where the only public building used to be a school and is now a visitor center.
Ten Interviews, One Secret: What Makes Us Feel Alive Has No Price Tag
We asked the same question to ten different people, in ten different conversations, in ten different moods: what does hedonism mean to you? We expected something about champagne, private jets, maybe an expensive watch on someone's wrist. Instead, once we laid all the interviews side by side, something far less expected emerged. And, we have to admit, something far more beautiful.
Miami: The City That Swallowed Its Own Past
In 1896, no city stood on Florida's southeastern coast. There was heat. A swamp lay thick and green, where mosquitoes ruled more mercilessly than any mayor who would come later. On that stretch of land, between Biscayne Bay and the wilderness of the Everglades, lived a little over three hundred people. So few that today, one decent Brickell high-rise could house them all, elevator working, bay view included.
Cities Beneath Cities: Places Where History Was Preserved Underground
In 1963, a man renovating his house in the Turkish town of Derinkuyu knocked through part of a basement wall and discovered
Three Cities, Three Stages of Life: Where in Australia Should You Live Now?
The city we want at 25 is unlikely to be the city we would choose at 45. Later, priorities shift again. Nightlife gives way to a quieter pa
Top 5 of the World's Most Beautiful Natural Pools
In some corners of the world, nature has created landscapes so extraordinary they seem almost unreal. Without architects, engineers, or machinery, water has spent thousands of years sculpting rock, depositing minerals, and carving out pools whose beauty rivals - even surpasses - that of the world's most luxurious man-made resorts.
The Last Dinner on the Titanic: What Passengers Ate Just Hours Before the Ship Sank
On the evening of April 14, 1912, as the Titanic sailed across the calm waters of the North Atlantic, few among its more than 2,200 passengers could have imagined that within hours they would become part of one of history's greatest maritime disasters. In the ship's elegant dining rooms and lounges, dinner unfolded with effortless sophistication.
Around the World Without Flying – Is It Still Possible?
There comes a moment at almost every airport when travel stops feeling like a journey and becomes little more than logistics. A few hours after takeoff, we step out on the other side of the world, often with little sense of the immense distance we have actually covered. Time zones change, languages shift, yet the space between two points seems to disappear altogether.
The Man Who Invented the Holiday: How Modern Tourism Was Born
Morning slowly broke over industrial England. Thick smoke from factory chimneys hung above Birmingham, Manchester, and Leicester as the first locomotives thundered across a landscape transforming faster than ever before. Factories absorbed thousands of workers, cities expanded almost overnight, and railways connected places that had once been separated by days of travel by horse-drawn carriage.
From Banja Luka to the World's Oceans: Turning Hedonism into a Profession
For Andrej Slavnić, travel, gastronomy and fine wine are not simply passions - they are a profession. His journey began in 2016, when the Banja Luka native joined one of the world's leading luxury cruise lines, Viking Ocean Cruises, as a wine specialist, embarking on a career that would carry him across every ocean and to some of the planet's most extraordinary destinations.
The Village China Rebuilt: The Story of Europe’s Most Photographed Settlement
Some cities have inspired films, places immortalized in songs, and landscapes captured on the canvases of history’s greatest painters. Yet very few places have left such a profound impression that someone chose to recreate them almost stone for stone, thousands of miles from their original home. That is precisely what happened to Hallstatt, the tiny Austrian village nestled between the steep slopes of the Alps and the tranquil waters of the lake that bears its name.
Robert Dacešin: Bosnia and Herzegovina Has Tourism Gems That Would Impress Even Colombia and Malaysia
After visiting more than a hundred countries around the world, Robert Dacešin has earned the right to make comparisons. That is precisely why the words of Banja Luka's best-known travel writer carry particular weight when he says that Bosnia and Herzegovina is home to natural and cultural treasures capable of standing alongside some of the world's most celebrated destinations.
