The document provides directions and notes for hiking up a large cross located on a hill west of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The hike involves taking outgoing roads and switchbacks up to a paved path leading to the top, where there are views of Mostar and potentially unexploded mines. Mine warnings are prevalent due to the area's history as an artillery post during the independence war, and the cross was constructed soon after the conflict ended.
The document provides directions and notes for hiking up a large cross located on a hill west of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The hike involves taking outgoing roads and switchbacks up to a paved path leading to the top, where there are views of Mostar and potentially unexploded mines. Mine warnings are prevalent due to the area's history as an artillery post during the independence war, and the cross was constructed soon after the conflict ended.
The document provides directions and notes for hiking up a large cross located on a hill west of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The hike involves taking outgoing roads and switchbacks up to a paved path leading to the top, where there are views of Mostar and potentially unexploded mines. Mine warnings are prevalent due to the area's history as an artillery post during the independence war, and the cross was constructed soon after the conflict ended.
and go up switchbacks to the paved path to top). 3. Long, boring hike along a busy road with no shoulder (or easy drive, Zita of hostel Nina offered to do it for 5€) leads to a full view of Mostar sans old bridge and some of the southern part of town (a bit of a downward scramble through loose rock and potentially unexploded mines leads to that). Head west from the cathedral, then cut left at the white mosque. Follow that to a Muslim cemetery then up through a catholic cemetery to the inevitable switchbacks. Mine warnings are all over and no joke, there looked to be a somewhat recently triggered mine at the summit (slightly above cross just outside of what looked to be a dug-in fortification). Appreciation of view limited by history of use as sniper/artillery post during the independence war and knowledge that construction of this massive religious icon came soon after the end of the conflict.