KOMARNA Sightseeing
Mostar old Bridge
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Information about Mostar,
Buna River and Blagaj, Medjugorje, Gabela, Pocitelj
and Mogorjelo are on the
Mostar and Around page.
Sightseeing suggestions on this page:
- Kravica Waterfalls - must see
- Medjugorje Pilgrim Site
- Hutovo Blato
- Radimlja Necropolis
- Gracine Roman Camp
Kravica Waterfalls
The cold, clear water falls into a small valley.
From noon onwards (when
the sun gets hot) some of the water particles hurdled into the air
vaporise
and put a lid of mist on top of the valley making it a pleasant
shade-like
feeling to be there.
Getting tired of relaxing on the sandy beach you can head out into the pool of water which also has a sandy bottom. If you are up to it you can swim across the pool (notice how the water gets colder), climb the rocks and jump. This is what the local teenagers do to impress one another - and perhaps the girls.
There is also a restaurant where you can enjoy the view and relax by listening to the rumbling from the waterfalls. There is just one problem: The falls are very difficult to find unless you have a local to lead the way.
Driving directions to Kravica waterfalls - Remember your passport and insurance papers for the car:
This is the short route - (All distances are very approximate as read of the meter of a car - in flight)
- Go to Metkovic. Turn left over the Neretva bridge
- 1 km to roundabout, turn right towards Vid (Narona)
- 3 km to Vid, turn right towards Prud (1 km)
- 6 km to border post
- Continue 4 km and turn right in Hardomije
- After 1 km - look carefully for small road that turns very, very sharply to the right
- 3 km turn right on bigger road
- After 2,5 km you pass a bus parking on the left
- Continue 1 km and drop the car where you can, but respect the "no parking" signs.
This is longer, but easier to follow:
- Go to Metkovic. Continue towards Mostar and pass the border.
- Turn left over the river into Capljina and drive through the town
- At the T-junction turn towards Ljubuski and continue for about 15 km.
- Turn left and follow the road to the very end where you pass a bus parking
- Continue 1 km and drop the car where you can, but respect the "no parking" signs
Medjugorje
Komarna is the ideal place to stay if you want to pray in Medjugorje and also have the benefit of a beautiful scenery and The Adriatic Sea.
On June 24th 1981 a young woman bearing a child
on her arm appeared on
a hill outside Medjugorje. With her free hand she urged six young
people
to come closer but they did not dare to do so as they sensed something
extraordinary. However urged by a will they could not describe all of
them
came back the next day individually and she revealed herself to be The
Holy Virgin.
The Holy Virgin also appeared the third day and appealed for peace. All in all she has shown herself 10 times in front of countless people and every day services in different languages are held in the church. Since 1981 more than 20 million pilgrims have visited Medjugorje. It makes it one of the biggest Catholic pilgrim places along side Lourdes in France.
Medjugorje is in Herzegovina off the road between Metkovic and Mostar. You can find out more about Medjugorje by clicking the following link: Presentation of the Medjugorje phenomenon - apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Includes detailed information and a frequently asked questions section.
Driving directions to Medjugorje:
Remember your passport and insurance papers for the car.
(All distances are very approximate as read of the meter of a car - in
flight)
- Go to Metkovic. Turn left over the Neretva bridge
- 1 km to roundabout, turn right towards Vid (Narona)
- 3 km to Vid, turn right towards Prud (1 km)
- 6 km to border post
- Continue 4 km and turn right in Hardomije
- Continue to Ljubuski and turn right
- In roundabout turn right
- Now follow the signs
We recommend that you park at the big central parking lot behind the
church
in the commercial centre and take a taxi to go to the original small
village
where Maria showed herself
Alternative route to Medjugorje (longer, but
easier)
- From Metkovic, continue towards Mostar
- Turn left towards Capljina where you cross the river
- Continue towards Ljubuski
- Follow the signs from here
Remember your passport and insurance papers for the car.
Hutovo Blato
Remember your passport and insurance papers for the car.
This is a hunting resort for
water birds and the largest winter resort
for the birds in Southern Europe. 200 species of birds find sanctuary
here
during the winter. It is a nice and interesting trip though Herzegovina
and easy to find if you start in Neum.
Turn left in the T-junction in Neum and follow road number 17.3 towards Hutovo and Capljina. On this road you pass directly through a ruin that is a close relative of Kula Norinska. The fortress was used by the Ottoman Empire to control the strategic mountain pass and the trade routes from the cost to mainland Bosnia. During the 1991 war the Croatian army also held this pass and prevented the Serbian Army from reaching the coast. Do not walk away from the roads in this area. Nobody seems to be absolutely sure that the place has been cleared of land mines.
After the ruins you drive down to Hutovo. About 6 km after Hutovo the road divides towards Stolac and Capljina. Follow the road towards Capljina. The road to Stolac is a bit of a challenge, but it does run through some very interesting landscape.
The road towards Capljina will take you to a point where there is a very nice view of Hutovo Blato. When you stand where the picture was taken there are some concrete constructions behind you. They are part of a hydro electric plant. Below you in the rock there are some huge turbines in 90 meter tall shafts.
Necropolis Radimlja
The burial ground is on the road between Capljina and Stolac (turn right towards Stolac 9 km from Metkovic). The road follows the Bregava River where Cro-Magnon man lived 13000 years ago. Stone tools and bones have been found in Badanj Cave (Spilja Badanj) together with some engravings outlining a horse and other signs like arrows. Unfortunately the cave is not accessible.
About 20 km down the road in the area of Vidovo Polje and on the right side of the road a few kilometre before Stolac there is a large burial ground with "stecaks" (old tombstones) from the early Middle Ages. It is probably the best preserved monuments in this part of the world. The area is not in a good shape, but has been declared a national monument and there is hope that the government will stop the pollution and destruction. If not - go and see it before it disappears. The stones and the engravings are very interesting.
Standing on the Necropolis and looking north towards the hills you are almost able to see the remains of the old Hellenistic town of Daorson which go back to the Iron Age and was inhabited from the start of the early Bronze Age (17. to 16.century BC). There are massive town walls with very large stone blocks and two great arched entrances that are now ruined. At the back, against the cliff there is a so-called Akropolis. The Romans conquered and destroyed this culture in the second century BC, but used the town as a outpost for Narona until the Avar tribes conquered it and destroyed it in the 800's.
We
tried to get to the ruins, but must unfortunately advise against it.
The road to the top is a bit scary and there are still mine fields up
there
that has not been cleared.
The archaeological site of the Hellenistic town of Daorson is designated as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Roman Camp Gracine in Humac
Humac is about 5 km south-west of Ljubuski, and now almost part of the suburbs of Ljubuski. The area of Gracine in Humac is on a plateau between the left bank of the river Trebizat to the south and Humac to the north. The Roman military camp was built on level and well-drained land. About 450 m to the south of the camp is a bridge over the Trebizat River. There was probably a bridge here in ancient times too. The site is bounded on three sides by local roads and to the north-west by the Vrgorac-Ljubuski road.
The role of the military camp was to protect the main Roman site of Narona during the war with the Dalmatians at the time of Augustus' campaigns in 35 to 33 BC.