Day 7 : Prokosko lake ,Tarcin Forest Resort,Sarajevo Forest Resort by Sofitel,Bascarija

Day 7 : Prokosko lake ,Tarcin Forest  Resort, Sarajevo Forest Resort by Sofitel,Bascarsija

Originally our itinerary was Visoko Bosnian Pyramids for this day. But our guide advised us  that lake is much better than the Pyramids. I also checked online and read some funny  reviews about the  man made pyramids. So we changed the plan.

We started from the hotel  and travelled straight  through the  highway to Prokosko lake. We  were advised before hand, that the climb up the mountain  had to be in a hired jeep as the roads were bad to take the car. We stopped at a place  and took the jeep .The rent jeep cost 70 KM both ways. The drive in the jeep was for 1 hr  to reach the lake. We stopped at a place for photos. The mountain, the trees, snow, lake all were so beautiful. We reached the entrance and the had to pay 2 KM/person and 10 km/ vehicle.

 

 

From there we drove  to a house where the lady was busy making yummy pies, bosnian coffee. We were told we can rent a house for a day or night or even few hours. People were doing picnic bringing their own food. There were cows roaming around with bells tied to their necks and making rhythmic sounds. There were people who were renting houses to stay. We walked around enjoying the lake and mountains .Then we had Bosnian coffee  and  left. We stopped at few places for clicking photos where the water was falling through the mountains.

Then we changed  to our car and drove back.

On the way back we bought some fresh strawberries, we were told it is chemical free and locally grown. It was the best strawberries I have ever eaten, they were melting in the mouth , juicy and sweet. It was 6 KM for a big box must have been a kg by weight.

We had already asked our guide  about where to buy original honey. So he took us to Tarcin on the way back where he drove us to his neighbour who was exporting honey and  has won many awards .The place was called Kazic.1 bottle of honey  which will be around 1 kg was 20 KM. We were shown 3 varieties: Chestnut, Thick crystallized, Flower honey. We were also shown Bee pollen that was for sale.

From here we left to Tarcin Forest Resort .This was a beautiful resort with villas and man made lake .This was up for rent and for sale. Later our guide also drove us to Sarajevo Resort by Sofitel. This was also a similar place  with villas  and very peaceful and away from the city.

Next we drove again to Bascarija for some souvenir shopping. We had lunch at Staklo restaurant. This time we got some fried veggies and cream pasta. Pasta was very tasty and the fried veggies as a side complemented well. We also  bought few cherries from the shop  for 1 Km .Cherries were sweet and tasty too.

We returned to hotel and packed our bags.

Day 8:

 

We had breakfast,  checked out the hotel.

We reached the airport. Sarajevo airport is very small, but the duty free was interesting.

We had a 6 hr stopover at Istanbul. Later  we reached Bahrain. Thus our vacation to Bosnia turned out to be super cool and great.