Bosnia and Herzagovina is probably not on everyone's list of places to visit, but for us it was another country that sounded interesting. We had found while doing our research that there was not a lot of information and what information there was, was conflicting. Mapping was going to be our biggest issue as our GPS only had the major roads and we couldn't find a printed map with much detail. Our first stop was to be in a small village called Blagaj near Mostar. Mostar is well known for its bridge built back in 1566, but blown up by the Croatians in 1993 and rebuilt in 2004. A lot of Mostar was badly damaged during the war and a lot of buildings still show the scars. A lot of people would only know of Bosnia and Herzagovina because of the war, but there is a lot more to the place, so I won't go on any more about it. We were lucky to be able to see some old buildings that date back to the Ottoman period, these building somehow avoided damage. We were also able to see the ruins of a fortress that dates back to Roman times, this was damaged in an earthquake. The park we were staying in was right on the bank of the Buna river and was owned by a youngish man that spoke good English and was able to tell us about things to see in the area as well as places in Bosnia and Herzagovina. When we told him we were headed for Sarajevo he told us of a small lake that had camping on it, it was off the highway so we would be following signs without a map. We did find the lake after making only one wrong turn and what we found was beautiful. It was nestled in a little valley surrounded by large mountains. The next day we headed into Sarajevo, but without mapping all we could do was head into the centre of the old city and find a parking spot. We found one outside a bar where there was a man that said he would look after the bike while we were gone. First of all we went in search of a tourist information centre, we found one and the girl, that didn't speak very good English, asked of we were Italian, we said no we are Australian and she handed us two maps, one of Sarajevo and one of Bosnia and Herzagovina, both in Bosnian. So we went in search of and found Pigeon Square, the main square, that is known for all its pigeons where everyone comes and feeds them. So after some lunch and a bit of a walk around town we went back to the bike and paid our guard a couple of dollars for his work. We then tried to leave the city for our next stop at Foča, but again without mapping we found ourselves riding around the city for a while before finding the right road. Our camp in Foča was right on the Drina river and only opened in 2011, but they didn't have any hot water for the showers! While we stayed there we went for a ride to a nearby National Park where we were able to see Bosnia and Herzagovina's highest mountain, it still had snow on it. While on this ride the enviable finally happened. While on a particularly windy, narrow and broken road a car coming towards us cut a corner and was on our side of the road. Now I've always wondered what to do in this situation. Do you hope they will get back on their side of the road, or do you cross over? I chose to cross over and you guessed it, so did he! We both managed to stop with about three metres between us, but now we were right on the shoulder of the road and I had nothing to put my foot down onto, leaving us to topple over the side of the road. Julie managed to stay with the bike just over the edge, but I tumbled down the side only to be stopped about three metres down, had it not been for the trees I would have finished a couple of more metres down in a creek. Apart from some damage to the screen on the bike everything was OK. We found that parts of Bosnia and Herzagovina reminded us of Russia, mainly the buildings and some of the villages, while other parts reminded us of Norway, mainly the mountains and forest. In all though, we are glad we visited the place and learnt a bit more about it.