From Bobovac, the fortress of the Kings, to Prokoško Jezero

This morning we started with a morning hike towards Bobovac the former castle of the Bosnian Kings, in former times an important place, now in the middle of nowhere and only reachable by foot. The hike is beautiful alongside a river but the last bit was exhausting steep up the hill at high temperatures.

The approach to the fortress

The mausoleum of the Kings

In the area about 12 000 catholic people lived before the war now there are 1500 left and uninhabited houses along the way trace this exitus 

In the village there a huge Fransican monastery is located with 3 monks left. Our house owner arranged a guided tour with one of the monks for us. We were guide in perfect German through the library containing. 12 000 books dating back towards the 15 th century and a small ethnographic museum, a really interesting 1 hour tour. At the end the monk asked us, how did you find this place? Well, a true question the last visitor entry in the visitors book was 2 weeks ago, probably not the main tourist hotspot like Mostar....smile

After this hike an a quick lunch desert from our hosts we made our way towards Prokoško Jezero, the most beautiful Bosnian mountain lake, but we made a quick stop a Visosko, where in 2005 it was claimed that the first European pyramids where discovered - everything still pretty mystical though - what can be seen are three pyramidal shaped mountains overgrown, but the excavations revealed stone covering below the surface and there is a tunnel leading in to the middle of the pyramid - well we did not want to spend 5 € each to see excavated stone plates - so we let the myths be and will come back when the first Pharaoh of Visko is discovered .....

You can find more of this story here: http://www.bosnianpyramids.org/

This is how reality looks like 

And this is what visonars beliefe it could be...

After this mystical experience we made our way on the dusty mountain road towards our mountain stop. It was a nice drive and the best was that the temperature dropped from 37 to 22, what a relieve !

We found a beautiful hut to rent with a nice terrace and could enjoy the cool evening in the mountains.