{"id":12260,"date":"2019-06-04T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T17:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=12260"},"modified":"2021-03-16T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T18:01:59","slug":"lukomir-the-lonely-hidden-village-of-the-dinaric-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/lukomir-the-lonely-hidden-village-of-the-dinaric-alps\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukomir:  The Lonely Hidden Village of the Dinaric Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12256\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12256\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lukori, Bosnia\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTO COURTESY OF JIM BOITANO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Driving through the mountains of <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-tom-bosnia_croatia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bosnia<\/a>, it\u2019s easy to become enchanted by the verdant beauty of this little visited <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-fyllis-balkans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Balkan<\/a> country. It\u2019s also easy to forget it\u2019s one of Europe\u2019s poorest countries, and that through the 1990\u2019s, it was torn by the worst ethnic warfare Europe has seen since the Second World War. While the scars of war still remain in many places, Bosnia is quick to turn its sunny side to you, reminding us that it hosted the Winter Olympics in 1984, and that it\u2019s eager to welcome tourists to its little visited sites. Its recent sad history did nothing to dampen its legendary Balkan hospitality.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12255\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12255\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Dinaric-Alps.jpg\" alt=\"view of Dinaric Alps from Lukori\" width=\"850\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Dinaric-Alps.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Dinaric-Alps-600x438.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Dinaric-Alps-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Dinaric-Alps-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTOS COURTESY OF JIM BOITANO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In just a few minutes of leaving its historic capital city of <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-tom-sarajevo_oldtown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarajevo<\/a>, you are in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinaric_Alps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dinaric Alps<\/a>, climbing to high alpine elevations as pretty as any I\u2019ve seen elsewhere in Europe or North America. If you keep on driving an hour, you pass the ski resorts which once hosted the Olympics. And from there, a poorly marked sign directs you to the almost hidden village of Lukomir.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12257\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12257\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-2.jpg\" alt=\"street scenes, Lukori\" width=\"850\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-2-600x296.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-2-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-2-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-2-496x244.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTOS COURTESY OF JIM BOITANO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lukomir is the highest, and perhaps the most remote village in an already remote and little visited country. While it takes an hour to navigate the rutted and rocky dirt road to it, the journey is as great as the destination. I remember the rocky screes upon which local shepherds were tending their flocks of sheep, herded by the sturdy Bosnian shepherd dogs. Although it was late May, there were still patches of snow but the land itself was alive with fresh grass and wild flowers for the sheep to eat, the land cut by gushing torrents of melting snow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12258\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12258\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-3.jpg\" alt=\"the writer at Lukomir; grazing sheep at Lukomir\" width=\"850\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-3.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-3-600x296.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-3-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-3-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-3-496x244.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">LEFT: PHOTO COURTESY OF VANYA STEGIC. RIGHT: PHOTO COURTESY OF JIM BOITANO.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end of the road lay the village. While it\u2019s setting midst the mountains and at the end of a precipice is breathtaking, the village itself is prettiest when viewed from a distance. Up close, it\u2019s a rough collection of stone houses set around a muddy unpaved street.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12254\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12254\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukori-Informal-Restaurant.jpg\" alt=\"the writer dining at an informal restaurant in Lukori\" width=\"850\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukori-Informal-Restaurant.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukori-Informal-Restaurant-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukori-Informal-Restaurant-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukori-Informal-Restaurant-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">LEFT: PHOTO COURTESY OF VANYA STEGIC. RIGHT: PHOTO COURTESY OF JIM BOITANO.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About 100 souls brave the hard life here, so hard that most of them return to the lowlands during the roughest winter months. But the village was alive when we arrived. A trickle of tourists were already there, and the villagers were making a real effort to supplement their meager income of shepherding and growing root vegetables and barley by catering to this small tourist trade. Two of the houses had small informal restaurants where the local women served hearty helpings of their local lamb (grilled and stewed) accompanied with their local homemade bread. Of course we partook on such a meal which we ate outdoors in the mountain air. A few other villages had their hand spun and knitted woolens for sale. Such warm socks and mittens would make welcome gifts, and we were happy to support the local economy by purchasing some. You might think that intruding on such an isolated village perched at 1,500 meters (4,900 feet) might be awkward, but we were greeted by the Bosnian hospitality we had found throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12259\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-Cemetery.jpg\" alt=\"the cemetery at Lukomir\" width=\"850\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-Cemetery.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-Cemetery-600x296.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-Cemetery-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-Cemetery-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lukomir-Cemetery-496x244.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These people have lived here for centuries. It\u2019s a hard life, but they say it\u2019s a good life. This part of Bosnia no one wanted, and they escaped the war which ravaged the Bosniak people throughout the rest of the country in the 90\u2019s. At least here, out in the middle of nowhere, there was safety. Centuries ago, these fair skinned Slavs converted to the faith of Islam, and this faith permeates the community. The Islamic cemetery on one end of town and the tiny mosque on the other were the tidiest corners of the otherwise rather untidy village. At least for me, I wasn\u2019t used to thinking of Islam in such an alpine setting, especially in the heart of Europe. Bosnian Islam tends to be of a very moderate kind. Though it was Ramadan, there was no issue selling food (or even alcohol) to us during mid-day. We were guests, and we were welcomed. Lukomir was worth the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving through the mountains of Bosnia, it\u2019s easy to become enchanted by the verdant beauty of this little visited Balkan country. It\u2019s also easy to forget it\u2019s one of Europe\u2019s poorest countries, and that through the 1990\u2019s, it was torn by the worst ethnic warfare Europe has seen since the Second World War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":12256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2547,2548,2546,127,2549,2545],"class_list":["post-12260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-travel","tag-balkans","tag-bosnia","tag-dinaric-alps","tag-europe","tag-islam","tag-lukomir"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lukomir: The Lonely Hidden Village of the Dinaric Alps - Traveling Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A village of just 100 souls, Lukomir is the highest, and perhaps the most remote village in the Dinaric Alps in little-visited Bosnia.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/lukomir-the-lonely-hidden-village-of-the-dinaric-alps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lukomir: The Lonely Hidden Village of the Dinaric Alps - 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