I bought Rakija from a Roadside Stand 🇧🇦
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- In this video I continue my search for homemade products in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this time with an emphasis on the Herzegovina. Join me as I head to the Herzegovinian town of Čapljina in search of rakija, honey, olive oil, and whatever else I can get my hands on. Along the way, we'll see remnants of the Bosnian war, see some crazy plants and, as always, meet some amazing people.
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0:00 A Bosnian (& Herzegovinian) Train Ride
4:52 Is this Croatia???
16:25 The Road to Rakija
27:43 Success
32:40 The Best Lunch I've Ever Had
42:46 Tipsy from Local Wine
This adventure showed me if nothing else the diversity of things that Bosnia and Herzegovina has to offer. Herzegovina, from its Mediterranean climate, to its Croatian influence, to its cactus plants, tropical fruits and sun-filled sky, is a completely different world than its compatriot region, Bosnia. Yet, all of it is beautiful in its own way. Enjoy, and thanks for watching!
#balkan #herzegovina #shoplocal
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia
Herzegovina
Čapljina
Trebižat
Prćavci
Homemade Products
Rakija
Homemade Wine
Homemade Almonds
Homemade Cheese
Homemade Eggs
Cactus
Bosnian War
Croatia
Dinamo Zagreb
Hajduk Split
Svaka cast Goji i Mariji, zaista pravi primer nase gostoljubivosti!
balkanski gostoljubivosti je najbolje!
@@BenTheRulesAko imaš vremena dođi u zapadnu Hercegovinu, Posušje ili Grude upoznati moga prijatelja amerikanca iz Kalifornije koji zivi ovdje.
@Nostalgia- Promijenio sam ime, prije sam se zvao Luke Skywalker hahaha nisam dobro napisao komentar..moj prijatelj iz Amerike koji je sada ovdje.
@Nostalgia- every white American is from Europe. And that name you wrote is English
upravo, svaka cast.
How cute were Marija i Gojo!!!! Jedi, jedi dok ne ekplodiras :), so precious ❤
amazing people, fed, watered, talked, thank you for a pleasant trip in our crazy times
Thanks for coming along!
This is an authentic travel vlog. Thank you for being so respectful of the cultures you visit. You should have so many more subscribers.
Thank you :) I appreciate it
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Herzegovina definitely has a lot of cool and beautiful places to offer, you should also check out Stolac, Počitelj, Hutovo blato, Kravica and Koćuša falls, Blagaj, Međugorje, Mostar, Trebinje, Konjic, Blidinje, Jablanica, and Neum, our only town on the sea.
When i was in Bosnia, Herzegovina was my favourite part. Such a nice place, with the most hospitable people in Bosnia.
This is one of the best video showing the Balkan hospitality and their good food products.
Sjajni domacini i ljudi , volio bih sjesti sa njima da jedemo i pijemo jedan dan . Pozdrav iz Banja Luke za gospodina i njegovu suprugu
Go to Glamoc, its a small town in western Bosnia, but you will meet people made of gold, truly amazing people! May God always protect you Ben!
Svaka cast momak dobro nam dosao! ja sam bosanac i zivim u svicarskoj.
Even a cat at the catedral is "Bosnian-Croat" ?! :D
I discovered this channel mont ago and i really really like it, keep it up buddy and thank you for promoting BiH ❤❤❤
Thank You,for beautiful video,B i H 🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦Magical country.Regards from sydney Australia 🇦🇺💓💖♥️💙💚
I have family in Čapljina and in the villages near it,it's really special.😊
You came for almonds and they gave you a feast.
Volim tvoja putovanja❤️
Hvala :)
Mannnnnnn!!!!! Loving this video!!!! Such a genuine representation of the Balkan culture!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I was just in Trebizat last week!!!! I was looking out for all these places!!! OMG!!! I bought that very pomegranate cardial in the local supermarket when I was there. It was super delicious.
I’m glad you made it there, it’s a really cool corner of the country with so much to offer (especially food wise!)
Love your videos and now you are finally hitting my part of Bosnia Herzeogvina... the tree is a monkey puzzle.... I remember being shocked at seeing pomegranates just lyring on the street rotting because there are so many of them. One of my favourite memories is visiting Pocitelj on a hot summer day and buying cool refreshing pomegranate juice from the local grandmas. Omg... they had homemade ajvar. So jealous now.
Hi Ben! Came across your videos , while searching Bosnian content fir my 87 year old mother-in-law , My wife is from Sarajevo, how did you come to speaking and learning Bosnian language , I’m born in Canada with German parents , I only speak a few words and phrases after being married to my wife 34 yrs lol
I remember a video where you said you learned from friends in USA
Did you grow up with younger kids who came from Bosnia after war
I have been to Sarajevo a couple times , love it there
My wife showed me all of her childhood neighbourhood s and where she lived
Anyway , love your passion for travel , and all your videos
As someone whose family is from čapljina, great video and very informing! Great catch noticing the difference in the Croatian flag and Herceg Bosna flag!
Priceless! What a life and
life message. Thank you Ben! Beautiful Adriatic hinterland.
I love your videos. 27:15 had me cracking up when you translated ”suha smokva” as “dry smoked meat it looks like.” 😂 figs, meat, it’s all the same.
Yeah i realized this while editing and forgot to put it in the video. Oh well 😂
Ovako gostoprimstvo ima samo u Hercegovini brato moj
You'll find it all over the Balkans. In rural Albania especially.
Well done Benjamin. Greetings from USA. I love my Herzegovina.
Just few hundred meters from the place where you bought rakija is an amazing little river Trebižat and couple of restaurants and beach bars. That is my favourite place to spend hot summer days when it gets to 40 degrees outside but the water is, I believe arround 10. I wish they told you to go there.
Herzegovina is actually full of water and waterfalls sourranded by untouched nature.
Anyways, respect to you and I hope you'll be back sometimes in summer! :)
Gojo i Mariju Hi from America. Good people like you guys inspire me to continue to learn the language and travel to the Balkans for holiday for vacation! Anyone can be a guest at my home in America
Agave and prickly pears at 18:18 and then an Araucaria at 20:47, If i remember correctly are plants native to central america but widely diffused in Mediterranean. This Is the nice part, 'cos i have shivers anytime i read Domovinski Rat and i think about my grandad... Nice video as usuale anyway especially the Gojo i Marija part 😊 ja volim Hercegovina❤
This is the life
I don't know how you don't get insane attachment issues talking to these people, it'd be way too hard. I'd never want to lose contact with any of these sweet old babas
Great video!
Gracias cabron 😎
Rakija is made from grape just flavored with rosemary
Im surprised you dont end up getting tens of thousands of views bro. Your channel since being in the balkans, is really incredible. Love your content and interactions with the local community. Keep it up brother!
Watching you from Australia 🇦🇺
Cheers!
Hi Ben, Travarica rakija iz (usually) fruit brandy base, some herbs steeped (infused) in, lets say 60 days, strained and bottled. Usual fruit brandies used are local variety, either plum or grape. in Capljina is most likely grape, locally called Loza. You got good one there, enjoy.
I couldn't help but laugh at how that lovely couple just fed you a feast when you just knocked on their door enquiring about almonds. Definite mob-boss vibes 😂 Hammered on the walk down the hill 😅 Great video. I've passed on bus from Mostar to Dubrovnik and back, but wouldn't have thought the Herzegovina area you visited was so cool looking. Definitely will be visiting soon as I can. Been too long since a proper visit.
Would definitely recommend stopping by that area on your next journey, if for nothing else to take advantage of the amazing local products. Cheers!
Pozdrav .)
Love the videos Benjamin. My humble advice would be to capture more footage of you talking to locals. Get some of their stories out, rather than walking around by yourself. Its more captivating for the audience, and its a way most travel vloggers operate and get more engaging footage. Such as bald and bankrupt. Wish you the best Ben, don't stop what youre doing
17:25 that is aloe vera and welcome to my Hercegovina
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38:56 udri rode neš tako kući🤣
This is anazing
Hi Ben i really like your content, may i ask how did you learn to speak the language? Im motivated to learn it but unsure how to start, ja razumijem samo malo 😃
To je super! I highly recommend learning it. I started learning with friends a few years back and I've picked it up by travelling and listening to music (mostly Dino Merlin haha). I think i'll make a video explaining how and why i learned the language soon. Pozdrav :)
Dear Ben, come to visit us in Banjaluka. :)
Someday soon I will!
What for? To see serbian seperatists? No thanks
@@powderskier5547????? Banjaluka is town, beautiful, hospitality, river Vrbas, nice monuments. People witch hate, have lot of reason to separate, just don't talk rubbish
@@powderskier5547 Your brain seem to be separated from your body.
Bravo Ben,
you made an amazing Video again. But I have little bit a feeling, you came to Hercegovina a little bit unprepared. You did not expect to find that what you have found. Hercegovina is the best place to live in, especially during spring and autumn. Thanks to Gojo and Marija, what amazing people. At the end, I beg you people please do not mix politics in comments below especially with fake facts. We all know that Hercegovina has never been Bosnia and opposite. The name of the country is Bosna I Hercegovina. Sorry for English I am not native speaker, do not even live in English speaking country.
Historical Herzegovina takes a larger area than present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, extending into Montenegro, Croatia, and Serbia. Over the past centuries, it was perceived as an underdeveloped region where people lived in poor conditions due to limited fertile land. Consequently, Herzegovinians often migrated, leading to a saying: "Herzegovinians populate the entire world but do not displace themselves."
One of the biggest population drops in Europe is Bosnia H. Its because on another reason than the war and moving abroad. The population drop is also low birth rates. Thats probably because of the nihilism.
Jedi jaja
Nemogu više 😂😂😂😂
Koliko dobro pričaš "balkanski" jezik sve mislim da si Balkanac
You can never experience this in America honestly or I am wrong Benjamin?
Not where I’m from at least :)
I'm Bosnian and I live in USA. You can't experience it in USA because USA is such a mixed up place that no one trusts people anymore. Especially with crime being rampant in cities, people tend to be untrusting of each other. Also, everyone seems to be obsessed with making more money and human connection is secondary. These are the reasons why it's hard to experience this in USA. Even if someone shares a meal with you it will be a snack because everyone's so stiff to share anything without charging you for it.
USA is the best country to live in the world 🌎 ,Australia, Canada and all European western countries.
20.26, all Croats who served in the Croatian army WW11
You mean, Croats who served under the Nazi regime.
Beautiful Herzegovina 🇭🇷
Never rub a tray table....did you ever ask yourself when they were last cleaned? (Answer: never)
Hercegovina je prelijepa. Kad bih birala gdje da živim to bih definitivno bilo negdje u Hercegovini. Takodje mi nikad nece biti jasno kako su u BiH postavljene zastave druge države. Hajde da ja odem u Split i postavim zastavu BiH.
Also that tree 20:58 is called monkey puzzle tree and it is native to Chile and Argentina😊
Pa kad nema u muslimana u splitu
@@ivanmatic23 Bolji primjer je Zagreb jer u Zagrebu ima muslimana a ima i dzamija pa nema BiH zastave ni pred kucama ni na javim mjestima.
@@ivanmatic23 ima muslimana u splitu, cak islamska zajednica ima mesdzid tamo
@@ivanmatic23 Nije u tom stvar, vec sto muslimani koji zive u Hrvatskoj vecinom sebe smatraju Hrvatima a neki od njih su Bosnjaci. U Bosni su svi katolici mahom presli na hrvatstvo sto je pogresan pristup jer dosta je bilo i Bosnjaka katolika ali je to sve nacionalizam unistio. Na kraju krajeva, bilo bi dobro da jedni druge uvazavamo pa neka se izjasnjava ko kako hoce, ali je cinjenica da je Bosna i Hercegovina zasebna drzava i njene granice su bile takve vec hiljadu godina najmanje. To sto imamo drugaciju vjeru ne znaci da je ista vjera automatski isti narod, ali kako rekoh politika je odlucila da se jedni zovu Hrvati jer su katolici a drugi Bosnjaci jer su muslimani. Iako realno, etnicka pripadnost ne bi trebala imati nikakve veze sa religijom. Pogledaj Albance naprimjer, oni su svi Albanci iako ih ima i katolika i muslimana i pravoslavaca i ateista.
Bosnia will always be for Bosnians. If you identify as Croatian or Serbian go and live in those countries. Bosnia is for Bosnians (those that do not pledge their allegiance to another country except Bosnia regardless of your damn religion). Stop tearing our beautiful Bosnia apart.
😂😂BiH constitution says the country has Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs..that’s what the country was decided on in 1995. Stop trying to change the constitution of the country. It is what it is. Telling us to go to those countries is like us telling y’all to go to Turkey since yall were Christians before the ottomans invaded BiH. So if you wanna respect your country, respect the constitution of it and how people in it identify. You realize Croats in BiH all have Croatian passports and not Bosnian right? It was part of the Dayton agreement. Looks like you need to do more research on your own country Emina. Also Capljina is in Hercegovina :)
@@ivanmatic23 I do not need a lecture from an internet troll named Ivan who is a racist and Islamophobist. Bosnia is and will always be for Bosnians. Not Croatians, Not Serbians.
Serbs and Croats are shooting themselves in the foot by hating their own country. No wonder why they are leaving the country.
@@ivanmatic23k’o pijan plota guslaš o’ konstitutivnosti bez ikakvog kritičkog osvrta, za takvo rezoniranje treba zahvaliti Jugoslaviji, Osmanlijama, Hrvatima itd.. zašto? jer su stoljećima na tim prostorima bile remetilačke-tuđinske trupe.. ustanak Husein-kapetan Gradaščevića - ugušen iz Hercegovine, desna ruka Josipa Broza opet Hercegovina? previše slučajnosti? do toga momenta kad se Hercegovci probude i budu svoji, a ne tuđi.. tresti će se gaće i Torcide i Loših dečki iz Zagreba, a vala i prisutnih ljubitelja Turske u Bosni .. to je moj ti prava Hercegovina: tvrđi od kamena, divlji od vuka i suvlji od baruta, pa kad se ta struja spoji sa onom rečenicom Huseina : “Boga se bojim malo, Sultana nimalo, a vezira k’o dorata svoga”. Mene duša boli kad vidim ljepotu ove Čapljine kako zjapi, dol se dižu grafiti i spomenici.. Bog blagoslovio domačine kako su ugostili ovog gosta i sve ljude koji žive uprkos svim opstrukcijama. Amen 🙏🏻
@@ivanmatic23that’s an interesting stand point. What do you consider the land in Bosnia? Does it stand on its own two feet? Or is it considered apart of Croatia or Serbia?
I have no vested interest, I just love Bosnia after spending some time there and wish the best for all the people there. Seems like a lot of the issues in this region are driven by history and revenge
Never buy "domaca" rakija. It's total crap in 99% of all cases. You have plenty of choice in any local store, for totally decent prices. Just do your homework 1st, and see which ones are good, it will be a totally new world for you. Or I can tell you, if you wish?
My family are from Hercegovina, but remember, this is still Bosna. Just like we don't say Srbija i Vojvodina or Hrvastka i dalmacija, Bosna is Bosna. So anyone in this region who tries to tell you "we aren't Bosnian, we're croatian hercegovaci etc.." is BS.
The Austro Hungarian Empire split the country in these two regions, before, all of Bosna was just Bosna. They are simply just Bosnian catholics who have been politically brainwashed
Ha ha who says 😂, a nation established in holiday-in basement 93 year ,ur just a ottomans leftovers , 😂
Wrong, my whole family is in Capljina. All croats
Bosnia, like herzegovina, is a geographical region, just like slavonija, sumadija, dalmatia or vojvodina. Croatia and Serbia are countries named after the nations that inhabit them. Bosnia is a region named after a river lol.
Croatia should rename itself to "Croatia and Dalmatia" if they're being consistent.
10:50 this is NOT correct.
There is no fight between Ustashe and Chetnkis only against Partizans.
Thank you for promoting of our land!
theyre not croats theyre just catholic Bosnians with a lost compass
Wrong, they wouldn't be able to have Croatian passports if they weren't Croatian.
Odličan video lp
Bosnia sind leider die freundlichsten Menschen auf dieser Welt!!!!! Sie sollen nicht so freundlich sein, weil die Basterde nutzen das aus!!!!!!
HERCEG BOSNO SRCE PONOSNO❤ 🇭🇷
BIH-BOSNA I HRVATSKA
Tu nije bilo ratnih zbivanja osim sto su unistili Bosnjacku imovinu