That “house of an introvert” looks like heaven to me. Such a beautiful place, thanks for sharing with us. Btw the taps outside the mosque are probably for washing your feet/hands before prayer. 🙏
Yea, I'd read up on cultural and religious courtecies and display them if I was you. Small tokens of appreciation go a long way with the RUclips crowd.
Thanks for your work Vagabund. My family is from this place. Actually we still own the first house on the right across the border/ bridge into BiH territory. Nothing to celebrate unfortunately. The area is a vacuum and none of the two soeverein authorities assume their responsibilities. My late uncle was more bullish, convinced it would turn into the Monaco of the Balkans. He past away before the occurrence of any sign of it. The border patrols are there, though placed just outside of Sastavci, to spare the inhabitants the hassle of this Habsburg era relic when crossing the bridge for their groceries. I cherish my summer holidays in the 80’s, when I came to this place, lying in the very middle of a large European country, fishing in the little river, that I didn’t know was a border.
I watched every video on your chanel Ivan and I just love all of them! It's so relaxing and interesting to watch you explore and travel to such beautiful sights. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us! I'm Serbian myself and hearing you speak Serbian was definitely my highlight haha. Wish you all the best and of course more of such lovely experiences throughout your travels ^^
You are so open-minded and thoughtful when you speak to others! Because you have travelled the globe, you’re educated and open to experiencing other cultures…something I encourage others to do. I think it’s ever more important, as sovereign borders are being invaded, and certain countries/governments have become hostile! The more we find common ground and appreciate the uniqueness of another people/culture, the better we become as a person. Traveling certainly helps to break down misconceptions, while offering the opportunity to form friendships…we can certainly welcome that!😊 Cheers!🇨🇦
yes and even now for me those borders seems strange ha ha ha, when you just think that all major cities in Yugoslavia time were connected with good train connections and travelling was smooth and easy and now every 2 hours there is some serious borders and checks , it is insane...
@@paveltrips Yugoslavia is dead serbs wanted to act the bosses of Yugoslavia and went around killing people for fun over 10 years until nato kicked their ass
I do find borders fascinating although often sad in the way people arbitrarily divide themselves, splitting families and creating tension and conflict where there should be none. Great video once again. You always find the most interesting places that most of us would live out our lives and never know about if it wasn’t for videos like this.
I enjoyed this. Vagabond, even if you don't participate in vices, keep a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of vodka on you for those moments where you need to break the ice with people - they won't say no as quick when you ask for an interview!
Your videos are always really informative and enjoyable, thank you! Seeing you speak with those locals made me curious about a couple of things - how many and what languages do you know? And how much have you had issues with the language barrier in your travels when you did not speak any of the languages the locals would normally speak?
Your Serbian is pretty damn good, as good as my Russian friend's, and he's here in Serbia for 2 years now. Congrats! I hope you visit Montenegro too, and if you do, don't miss Zabljak and Durmitor national park. That place is heaven.
@ no as a bosnian im saying the language is croatian they where the first to write it down and make it but serbs only re wrote it in cyrilic and they pretend like they made it
@@zipel you must not have heard of the chemical pollution of water in quite a few urban and suburban areas in the US - adding chlorine to tap water is fairly common too to deal with bacteria that would otherwise cause issues 😅
Trivia about this Bosnian land: While Serbia recognizes Međurečje as part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the entire area is currently under the administration of the Serbian government. Sastavci is the neighboring village in Serbia.
In Europe there are many such exclaves on borders e.g. Belgium and Netherlands, Switzerland and France where even half of the street is in one country and the other half in another. This is interesting that it is mostly rural and they still keep it that way.
Medjurečje represents a kind of precedent when it comes to disputed borders on the territory of the former SFRY (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). In order to get from one end of the municipality of Priboj to the other, the residents are forced to cross the state border between Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina four times, because all the roads in that area lead across the Bosnian island of four square kilometers. The final demarcation is eagerly awaited by about a hundred residents of Međurečje and the population of five local communities that surround the "Bosnian enclave", whose borders were defined by Austria-Hungary at the Congress of Berlin in 1878. Several thousand residents of the municipality of Priboj, as well as the municipality of Rudo in Republika Srpska, Bosnia & Herzegovina, hope for the same. The border checkpoints cause the most trouble to the residents of Sastavci Municipality, where the two states "separate", but also to the residents of the surrounding municipalities of Sjeverin, Strmac, Krajčinovići, Zabranica and Vučje. The unusualness of Sastavci is that it, by cadastral, belongs to Bosnia & Herzegovina, while all buildings from the time of the former SFRY, such as the post office, primary school, police station, ambulance and local community office, belong to Serbia. In most cases the tax is paid to both Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina, because many locals have property in both countries, the official currency is the Serbian dinar, but in bars and shops they also accept euros and Bosnian marks. For the sake of the people who live here, let's hope this issue is resolved.
I know vary little about this part of the world. I knew a Bosnian guy who was very militant, lets say, and very pro US but hated Bosnia. He was in a war in croatia for 4 years.
You are so close to my home town, Prijepolje. If you're around here, let me know, if I can help :) here is Mileševa monastery, with White Angel frescoe, one of the first images that was sent across the ocean.
The way back is just 15 km 😂. I don't know if I would be able to walk 30 + km on a single day. Although I'm in the mid 20s hiking for 12 - 15 km is already enough for me 😅. But the video was very interesting, I didn't expect Serbia to have such beautiful landscapes or that the Enclave doesn't seem to be much influenced by Bosnia.
The nice houses are a really common thing in Bosnia as well. Diasopra(people working in the EU) like to have really good houses in their motherland, while living abroad. Why? No clue
They earn good money abroad, and take house fittings back home to do up their homes. I worked with several refugees from the Yugoslav war, and they all did this. Once the new house was built, or rebuilt after war damage, many returned home with flat pack kitchens and bathrooms. A good home to retire to.
@@foxstrangler That is classic Yugoslav style house from 70s,few floors with big terrace in front .In ex Yugoslavia you will rarely see new house from 2000s ,becase off population decline and even when people buy new they instead buy new apartment .BUt yes some who went to west still keep their old houses in good condition and go back few times a year
Everybody seems to speak Russian on a whim! I also found it funny how the locals said 'no, no, no' and then proceeded to give you an interview. Very nice video!
(@4:40) so that bus starts in Bosnia (exclave), goes thru a bit of Serbia, cross border back into Bosnia, comes back around down into Serbia (& it's free!) *maybe they should just unite all this into 1 country & call it yugoslavia, now there's an idea
Serbia always looks beautiful and that house near the mosque I'd love to buy that property and go there throughout the year it was still solid👌👍🏴🏴....
go visit following three places to see border absurdities: Sátoraljaújhely where because of the railroad 10 percent of the city was given to Czechoslovakia forming the place Slovenske nove mesto /Szlovakujhely/ then the village Somosko where the village is in Hungary but the Castle above it is Slovakia /makes no sence as the nearest Slovak setlement is like 5km away/ and then the divided city Komarom/Komarno that got divided in Trianon also...
If you find this weird try googling the villages of Bjelugovina/Mištar/Tupci and somewhere between them you will see a small portion of territory of the Republic of Serbia attached to the rest of the country by a tiny corridor 😆
The reason they accept Euro is because KM is pegged to Euro and is also widely used in Bosnia, not to mention all the gastarbeirer population working in EU getting paid in EUR.
Love your explorations through the old Balkanized regions of the world. I never knew about this small autonomous area of Bosnia. I guess there are still 3 or 4 parts of Bosnia today along the zones of separation out of it's civil war chaos of the 1990's? And today the real danger would be landmines in the rural wooded area could be UXO like unexploded landmines? I guess they have more association with Putin's Russia today and the Americans aren't doing anything there anymore? I'm still not sure why were there in 1996 with the IFOR NATO peacekeeping mission thing. Serving one's country turned out to be a big nothing that didn't manage to keep America safe, secured, and prosperous as you already know, we're facing great troubles having all the tell tale signs of a civil war.
How did you learn the language so damn fast?!?!?!?! You uploaded the Bosnian videos where went train hopping from Banja Luka to Sarajevo but ended up in that village I forgot the name of.. You spoke Russian with them older Muslim couple, Omer I think was his name.. Now few months later you speak almost fluent Serbian?! How????
Hopefully Serbia remains independent and can solve problems all throughout Europe... They have huge opportunities ahead of them... Not to mention all the Serbian diaspora with tons of skills and wealth to create something incredible. 2:58 and in local news, Russian gainz Serb Powers by driking contaminated water lmao.....
Your videos make me regret spending most of my vacation live in the USA, Canada & New Zealand. Sadly, Australia is a long way to Europe & when Aussies get back home from Europe, jetlag is hard to get over & you end-up working like a sloth for a week or two. I was wondering if you've looked at buying a 10,000mah solar power bank with 3 additional panels for quicker charging? They're great, use them like a normal power bank charging from the wall socket, but when you are in distant forest or out in the Far-East in an abandoned village hiking for 6 days, you lay out the 3 solar panels attached to the power bank with a built-in hard solar panel & let the sun charge it. First charge after unboxing should ONLY be wall plug charge for first full charge. Can get 20,000mah solar powerbanks also. I'm trying to use your videos to help me learn the language, your videos & Eli, her video spending 3 months in Australia was cool. If you ever make it to Australia, I hope to treat you to coffee & treats from the bakery.
You have a huge diaspora of Serbian/Macedonian population in AUS. You have Pliescaviska at home lol... No seriously find some restaurants and the embassy make some friends stop off in Chicago and then onwards to Belgrade. Only 8 hours and you wont regret it...
Vagabond is a unique and genuine vlogger. Always worth watching his videos.
100% unique I agree.
Very glad to see that you can still get your material on RUclips. Carry on the good work.
That “house of an introvert” looks like heaven to me. Such a beautiful place, thanks for sharing with us. Btw the taps outside the mosque are probably for washing your feet/hands before prayer. 🙏
Yea, I'd read up on cultural and religious courtecies and display them if I was you. Small tokens of appreciation go a long way with the RUclips crowd.
"Can I interview you?"
"no, no, no"
"Ok, so how many people live here?"
🤣...priceless
And who do you pay your taxes to?? 😆
impressed with your serbo croatian, super pricas brate :)
I wouldn't have even known about this part of my country without you.
I learned a lot about the war and saw the country from the movie Savior, 90's
@@stoephead eh that movie was a very dramatized ane condensed view of the war that took place here.
It would have shown up in politics eventually - the next time there's a renewed interest in renegotiating borders.
Thanks for your work Vagabund. My family is from this place. Actually we still own the first house on the right across the border/ bridge into BiH territory. Nothing to celebrate unfortunately. The area is a vacuum and none of the two soeverein authorities assume their responsibilities. My late uncle was more bullish, convinced it would turn into the Monaco of the Balkans. He past away before the occurrence of any sign of it. The border patrols are there, though placed just outside of Sastavci, to spare the inhabitants the hassle of this Habsburg era relic when crossing the bridge for their groceries. I cherish my summer holidays in the 80’s, when I came to this place, lying in the very middle of a large European country, fishing in the little river, that I didn’t know was a border.
It's stunning there, thanks for the share and please stay safe brother!💙✌️✨️💪
I watched every video on your chanel Ivan and I just love all of them! It's so relaxing and interesting to watch you explore and travel to such beautiful sights. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us! I'm Serbian myself and hearing you speak Serbian was definitely my highlight haha. Wish you all the best and of course more of such lovely experiences throughout your travels ^^
Super. You found Međurečje.😎
Merci pour cet intéressant reportage.
You are so open-minded and thoughtful when you speak to others! Because you have travelled the globe, you’re educated and open to experiencing other cultures…something I encourage others to do. I think it’s ever more important, as sovereign borders are being invaded, and certain countries/governments have become hostile! The more we find common ground and appreciate the uniqueness of another people/culture, the better we become as a person. Traveling certainly helps to break down misconceptions, while offering the opportunity to form friendships…we can certainly welcome that!😊
Cheers!🇨🇦
And once upon a time we all lived in the same country
yes and even now for me those borders seems strange ha ha ha, when you just think that all major cities in Yugoslavia time were connected with good train connections and travelling was smooth and easy and now every 2 hours there is some serious borders and checks , it is insane...
Viva Yugoslavia!
@@paveltrips Yugoslavia is dead serbs wanted to act the bosses of Yugoslavia and went around killing people for fun over 10 years until nato kicked their ass
Vagabond and Seeker of the Way are the most interesting traveler channels these days, in my opinion...
Great stuff & keeping it real...
I love the introvert house! Keep up the great work 👍
The best blogger. He is down to earth and genuine. Great videos. Thank you
Love your videos😊
A beautiful and interesting place. Good to see it seems peaceful now. Great video as always thanks.
I live in Serbia, never knew this existed :D looks lik ean interesting place to visit
I could listen to that voice for hours. Your English is unique but perfect.
I do find borders fascinating although often sad in the way people arbitrarily divide themselves, splitting families and creating tension and conflict where there should be none. Great video once again. You always find the most interesting places that most of us would live out our lives and never know about if it wasn’t for videos like this.
7:30 man, your language skills are amazing to me.
Thanks Vaga Bond. I love to see all these places. Perhaps one day I will go as well.
Another fascinating adventure, Ivan!
Thank you - very interesting.
I enjoyed this. Vagabond, even if you don't participate in vices, keep a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of vodka on you for those moments where you need to break the ice with people - they won't say no as quick when you ask for an interview!
Honestly he is a sissy for not drinking 😂
I think that he has enough to carry already. 😂
Great video as always bratko!
Wow you really have a great handle on the language too, bit of an inspiration for me to learn Russian. 😊
Impressed with this unique content and your language skills❤
Love the videos man, keep up the good work! Reminds me of the way Bald and Bankrupt travels
Great geographical find!
What a coincidence. I was looking around Google Maps for fun the other day and found this area, then you upload it. xD
Quality content!
Very cool video Vanya 👍
"Just found the house of an introvert" 😂😂
Love the tshirt with the tigers and leaf design
he looks like he could be at the court of the Mongol emperors!
Love the introvert house
Excellent video, I am unable to leave until the end. Love from Kolkata, India 🇮🇳
Your videos are always really informative and enjoyable, thank you! Seeing you speak with those locals made me curious about a couple of things - how many and what languages do you know? And how much have you had issues with the language barrier in your travels when you did not speak any of the languages the locals would normally speak?
Dobrodošao na Balkan
Your Serbian is pretty damn good, as good as my Russian friend's, and he's here in Serbia for 2 years now. Congrats! I hope you visit Montenegro too, and if you do, don't miss Zabljak and Durmitor national park. That place is heaven.
Serbian isnt a language
@@BOSNAJEDINA3 Serbo-Croatian Is It Called ?
@ no as a bosnian im saying the language is croatian they where the first to write it down and make it but serbs only re wrote it in cyrilic and they pretend like they made it
Great Video
"I believe this water is drinkable"
- famous last words
Balkan mountains are mostly limestone. It is one big water filter…
its drinkable for him, but prob not drinkable for americans
@@zipel you must not have heard of the chemical pollution of water in quite a few urban and suburban areas in the US - adding chlorine to tap water is fairly common too to deal with bacteria that would otherwise cause issues 😅
@@zipel most sources in Dinarics hills and mountains are perfectly safe for drinking still... no bacteria...
Its what gives Dragan his super powers....
Ma goat uploads . It's gonna be nice day today
Trivia about this Bosnian land:
While Serbia recognizes Međurečje as part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the entire area is currently under the administration of the Serbian government. Sastavci is the neighboring village in Serbia.
In Europe there are many such exclaves on borders e.g. Belgium and Netherlands, Switzerland and France where even half of the street is in one country and the other half in another. This is interesting that it is mostly rural and they still keep it that way.
Thank you
this is what we call vukojebina
Medjurečje represents a kind of precedent when it comes to disputed borders on the territory of the former SFRY (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
In order to get from one end of the municipality of Priboj to the other, the residents are forced to cross the state border between Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina four times, because all the roads in that area lead across the Bosnian island of four square kilometers.
The final demarcation is eagerly awaited by about a hundred residents of Međurečje and the population of five local communities that surround the "Bosnian enclave", whose borders were defined by Austria-Hungary at the Congress of Berlin in 1878.
Several thousand residents of the municipality of Priboj, as well as the municipality of Rudo in Republika Srpska, Bosnia & Herzegovina, hope for the same.
The border checkpoints cause the most trouble to the residents of Sastavci Municipality, where the two states "separate", but also to the residents of the surrounding municipalities of Sjeverin, Strmac, Krajčinovići, Zabranica and Vučje.
The unusualness of Sastavci is that it, by cadastral, belongs to Bosnia & Herzegovina, while all buildings from the time of the former SFRY, such as the post office, primary school, police station, ambulance and local community office, belong to Serbia.
In most cases the tax is paid to both Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina, because many locals have property in both countries, the official currency is the Serbian dinar, but in bars and shops they also accept euros and Bosnian marks.
For the sake of the people who live here, let's hope this issue is resolved.
I know vary little about this part of the world. I knew a Bosnian guy who was very militant, lets say, and very pro US but hated Bosnia. He was in a war in croatia for 4 years.
good video
You are so close to my home town, Prijepolje. If you're around here, let me know, if I can help :) here is Mileševa monastery, with White Angel frescoe, one of the first images that was sent across the ocean.
What a very unusual place!
Hey, I'm a Serb/Brit who likes to spend time in Russia. I am down in Uzice region now. If you come this way then give me a shout!
Nice video Vagabond! Can you tell us where you learned the Serbian-Croatian language?
I live in Priboj and I didn't know you could pay with euros in Sastavci hahaha
Well, actually it's Međurečje where he could pay in €
I think the people in this village are serbians and thats why its so calm and relaxed.
Where did you get that t-shirt from? I love it!
great video
Međurečje, same etimology as Mesopotamia, a place in between rivers :)
Went there in 2003 when I was SFOR, I was out of Brcko which was also an Automonious Region.
Beautiful.
The way back is just 15 km 😂. I don't know if I would be able to walk 30 + km on a single day.
Although I'm in the mid 20s hiking for 12 - 15 km is already enough for me 😅.
But the video was very interesting, I didn't expect Serbia to have such beautiful landscapes or that the Enclave doesn't seem to be much influenced by Bosnia.
@@Citylights28 It was actually my second hike during that day. I set a personal record, having walked 43 km within 24 hours.
The nice houses are a really common thing in Bosnia as well. Diasopra(people working in the EU) like to have really good houses in their motherland, while living abroad. Why? No clue
They earn good money abroad, and take house fittings back home to do up their homes. I worked with several refugees from the Yugoslav war, and they all did this. Once the new house was built, or rebuilt after war damage, many returned home with flat pack kitchens and bathrooms. A good home to retire to.
@@foxstrangler exactly, this is done by all Diaspora from Ex-Yu region :-)
The Muslim doesn't waste money on alcohol. 😂
@@foxstrangler That is classic Yugoslav style house from 70s,few floors with big terrace in front .In ex Yugoslavia you will rarely see new house from 2000s ,becase off population decline and even when people buy new they instead buy new apartment .BUt yes some who went to west still keep their old houses in good condition and go back few times a year
Everybody seems to speak Russian on a whim! I also found it funny how the locals said 'no, no, no' and then proceeded to give you an interview. Very nice video!
They all spoke Serbian in the video as I did.
@@ivantrainsLIVE Sorry! I wrongly assumed that you being Russian spoke Russian to them... I'm not very well versed in the Slavic languages 😅
@@MusicalRadiation no worries, there are many similarities in Slavic languages
Only three said no, one seemed willing to be interviewed and he was nice.
We don't have clear: yes and no in Serbia. Everything should be repeated 3 times, sometimes you get 3 no but often is: no, no...ok yes
Interesting!
Good vid.
Didn’t want to get interviewed, answers questions anyway 😂
I’m a local to both Serbia and Bosnia- and I have learned of this exclave from you! 🤣
Great video Vagabond. I was wondering why you deleted your trainhopping videos?
I guess that now it’s prohibited on RUclips. Famous trainhopping traveller Ilya Bondarev also got his videos deleted
Thanks for inteviewing a good looking guy with no shirt on =)
I didn't know this existed. It really isn't on any map 😮
"a house of an introvert" :)
Is there any way to support your travels? I love what you do and want to be a part of it!
Read the description of the video, means of support are mentioned there
(@4:40)
so that bus starts in Bosnia (exclave), goes thru a bit of Serbia, cross border back into Bosnia, comes back around down into Serbia (& it's free!)
*maybe they should just unite all this into 1 country & call it yugoslavia, now there's an idea
I like your shirt 🐯
Serbia always looks beautiful and that house near the mosque I'd love to buy that property and go there throughout the year it was still solid👌👍🏴🏴....
go visit following three places to see border absurdities: Sátoraljaújhely where because of the railroad 10 percent of the city was given to Czechoslovakia forming the place Slovenske nove mesto /Szlovakujhely/ then the village Somosko where the village is in Hungary but the Castle above it is Slovakia /makes no sence as the nearest Slovak setlement is like 5km away/ and then the divided city Komarom/Komarno that got divided in Trianon also...
If you find this weird try googling the villages of Bjelugovina/Mištar/Tupci and somewhere between them you will see a small portion of territory of the Republic of Serbia attached to the rest of the country by a tiny corridor 😆
Looks like the black flies enforce the border! 🤣 What an interesting place!
The reason they accept Euro is because KM is pegged to Euro and is also widely used in Bosnia, not to mention all the gastarbeirer population working in EU getting paid in EUR.
nice
Love your explorations through the old Balkanized regions of the world. I never knew about this small autonomous area of Bosnia. I guess there are still 3 or 4 parts of Bosnia today along the zones of separation out of it's civil war chaos of the 1990's? And today the real danger would be landmines in the rural wooded area could be UXO like unexploded landmines? I guess they have more association with Putin's Russia today and the Americans aren't doing anything there anymore? I'm still not sure why were there in 1996 with the IFOR NATO peacekeeping mission thing. Serving one's country turned out to be a big nothing that didn't manage to keep America safe, secured, and prosperous as you already know, we're facing great troubles having all the tell tale signs of a civil war.
Your Serbian is excellent
I'm excited about your Yugoslav language skills, Ivan!?
Did they understand russisan or do you speak Serbian?
Btw what a cool find
I spoke a mix of Serbian and Russian.
10:40 almost smacked my headphones
How did you learn the language so damn fast?!?!?!?!
You uploaded the Bosnian videos where went train hopping from Banja Luka to Sarajevo but ended up in that village I forgot the name of..
You spoke Russian with them older Muslim couple, Omer I think was his name..
Now few months later you speak almost fluent Serbian?!
How????
Serbian isnt a language
Hopefully Serbia remains independent and can solve problems all throughout Europe... They have huge opportunities ahead of them... Not to mention all the Serbian diaspora with tons of skills and wealth to create something incredible.
2:58 and in local news, Russian gainz Serb Powers by driking contaminated water lmao.....
Your videos make me regret spending most of my vacation live in the USA, Canada & New Zealand. Sadly, Australia is a long way to Europe & when Aussies get back home from Europe, jetlag is hard to get over & you end-up working like a sloth for a week or two. I was wondering if you've looked at buying a 10,000mah solar power bank with 3 additional panels for quicker charging? They're great, use them like a normal power bank charging from the wall socket, but when you are in distant forest or out in the Far-East in an abandoned village hiking for 6 days, you lay out the 3 solar panels attached to the power bank with a built-in hard solar panel & let the sun charge it. First charge after unboxing should ONLY be wall plug charge for first full charge. Can get 20,000mah solar powerbanks also. I'm trying to use your videos to help me learn the language, your videos & Eli, her video spending 3 months in Australia was cool. If you ever make it to Australia, I hope to treat you to coffee & treats from the bakery.
You have a huge diaspora of Serbian/Macedonian population in AUS. You have Pliescaviska at home lol... No seriously find some restaurants and the embassy make some friends stop off in Chicago and then onwards to Belgrade. Only 8 hours and you wont regret it...
Eli & Vagabond Serbian crossover when
classic tomato plants
😍
спасибо за видео. Я немец. Я бы хотел путешествовать с тобой ))
Be careful making the number 3 with your fingers like that over there 😂
amazing yop also know Serbian
They are in schengen from long time ago😅
It's pronounced Uvatz, not Uvak.
3:58 Ivan fills up on sugar
Have You Heard of a Part of Croatia Which Is Entirely Surrounded By Slovenia
Does anyone know what camera vaga uses??
4:25 she said it departed 15 min before 5