On the list of places to visit during our trip we had the old Olympic town in Sarajevo. Old, abandoned, neglected… but still worth seeing.
The Winter Olympic Games were organized here in 1984. Back then, this place was teeming with life. Today is quite different. To this day, only the characteristic concrete bobsleigh track and a few old ruins of buildings have survived.
With a bit of imagination we organized a private bobsleigh race running around the track. In the summer, no sledges… crazy, right?
Then we decided to drive down to the city center for lunch.
Google Maps navigation showed us two possible routes, one half an hour long and the other 15 minutes and shorter. We trusted navigation and chose the shorter one. And that was a mistake…
Initially, the road led at a rather sharp angle down and after a while I knew that the option of turning back with a full loaded bus would not be possible. Adventure time, no way back. We drove into the first buildings area, the road was getting narrower. People went out to the windows looking at us and wanting to say: “where is he driving?”. Later, it was even more fun, because the width of the road was for one car only, without the possibility of passing a car driving in the opposite direction. It was narrower and narrower with each subsequent meter. Finally, we reached the end of the road and when we thought we had succeeded, the most difficult part of this “shortcut” was ahead of us.
Folded mirrors, the passage is literally centimeters wide. Our bus is over 5 meters long and maneuvering it when it goes down at an angle is not trivial. After a few minutes of fighting, we succeeded, although with a small abrasion of the step that was used to get into the car. I was controlling the body line, and this step is located slightly lower and hooked on a concrete step. It’s hard to say, there must be adventures.
We parked the car in the center of the town and went to a restaurant for lunch.
There is still a short stretch of road ahead of us to our accommodation – a campsite on the Tara River. As it turned out, this campsite is a starting point for people who go rafting on this wild river.
