Traveling to Serbia? Don't do THIS! 🇷🇸🇽🇰
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- What began as a boring bus ride soon turned into a nightmare travel scenario. This is that story. Always do your research kids!
0:00 DENIED at Serbian Border
9:55 Saved by a Truck Driver
19:22 Entering Serbia: Attempt 2
25:58 How bad I screwed up (Statistics)
Thanks to everyone who helped me along the way! The Kosovo border guards, Mia, Mahit the bus driver, GOT Hostel in Prishtina, the Rožaje Taxi Drivers and Mićo Guest House in Novi Pazar
#serbia #kosovo #balkan
This is one of the reasons why these kind of videos makes your channel hreat . :-)… also plenty of other good reasons as well. Keep up the good work.
Serb patrol guards were right tho... u entered Serbia without having passport stamped 🇷🇸🇷🇴
Is it his fault that there is no serbian passport stampers in Kosovo? 😂
And if serbia has no passport stampers in Kosovo, why does it require people who enter from Kosovo to have their passports stamped magically? 😂
Kosovo is independent tho... It's not his problem Serbia is a shithole country that can't even control their own borders.
Good morning from Tenerife ❤
The reason I think they asked for your prezime (last name) is based of your last name, the boarder guards are able to tell what ethnicity you are (Albanian, Serbian, Bosnijak or other)
that is stupid, I never heard of this. So you cannot travel from Kosovo to Serbia if you are not Serb or what?
@@deejagers716 shure you can , you`ll have a problem if you was a UCK soldier!
@@deejagers716 Serbs don't need to show anything to cross this border..it is good enough just to be a Serb or to say Kosovo is Serbia... No one stops or checks buses from north of Kosovo because only Serbs are using those..Non-Serbs may still travel at their own risk...Just a few kilometers far from this border is the mass grave Rudnica where the Serbian army during the war killed and buried Kosovars most of them civilians dropped out of the buses or personal vehicles .....
@@deejagers716 serbs Gen0cide politic hate Arab simple like cake
21:33 This is so sweet haha older person who knows English and recognizes a English speaker and just wants to help
Nice 👍
Здраво Бен! Сакам твои видеа мнгоу! Имам прашање, која земја има најдобар бурек?
Поздрав! Најболје бурек је 100% у Сарајево. “сач” је најболје мјесто. извини, не знам ти одговорати на македонском. Али разумио сам што си написао :)
@@BenTheRules нема проблем господине, те разбирам! Сарајево види убо, сакам да одам некогаш.
Sandzak is a Turkish name for it. Rashka is in Serbian.
Ahhh that's interesting. When I was there I saw Raška a lot but wasn't sure exactly what it referred to. Does the term Raška include the Montenegrin side as well, or just Serbian?
@@BenTheRulesIt is Raška indeed. But it's also Sandžak.
With our Balkan reasoning, make sure to call it Sandžak while you're in non-Serb majority places (like most of Novi Pazar and the Sandzak region in general), and call it Raška around Serbs elsewhere.
Edit: To answer you question as well. Raška you kept seeing was for the town called Raška which is unrelated to Sandžak.
So there's a region that was called Raška, a town called Raška, and an administrative district called Raška.
The region is pretty much similar to what we mean when we say Sandžak, but covers a slightly larger area. Still, that name is in general disliked among the Muslim Bosniak population, which is also true for Sandzak and Serbian population.
The town and the district don't bring that much trouble, as everyone agrees about the naming. The district is kinda touchy topic, has a little to do with the original region, but as districts are insignificant in Serbia, there isn't much dispute about it.
Enjoy your stay in Novi Pazar. It has its shortcomings, but I hope you'll like it there overall 😁
@@BenTheRulesto clarify about the name sandzak, it actually comes from the sandzak of novi pazar. sandzaks were regions given by the sultan to his subordinates. the people unfortunatly just call it sandzak bc lack of knowledge and mostly the bosniaks just want their own name for raska, so just not to use the serbian name, but the turkish one. both names sandzak and raska cover the whole region between serbia and montenegro, but some just use it for the serbian part, again bc lack of historical knowledge.
@@BenTheRulesOfficially that region is called "Raška Oblast" after the regional administrative center, the city of Raška. Sandjak is a Turkish word for region and there were at least 300 sandjaks in Ottoman Turkey, why people still call this particular region sandjak, it's beyond me...
Raska is the region and it used to be state before turks occupied the area. The new born nation of Bosniaks still call it sandzak which means Oblast (region) in Turkish only to defy anything Serbian, despite they are slavs and not turks and still speak Serbian language.
It's a psychological disorder.
The exact same thing happens if you fly to the Northern Cyprus and try to enter the southern side. They don't recognize your entrance as legal so you basically have to fly to the southern part directly.
Good to know, I’ve always wanted to go there
12:00 In my experience, the border guards are usually Serbs in the Serbian side, Albanians mixed with Serbs in the Kosovo side, However, its hard to tell sometimes because many of the Serb border guards in the Kosovo side speak fluent Albanian without a doubt it could be any of the two. Also, MANY I say many Albanians go through Kosovo to Serbia espcially holiday seasons like summer, winter ect. due to the fact that many Albanians from the diaspora drive back to Kosovo and usually enter Serbia first and then in Kosovo they drive back through Serbia. In the summer the Merdare border, gets packed both ways with queues that go for a few KM.
You don't know where are you .kosovo is Serbia.kosovo i metohija is occupied by your nato.western are not welcome to Serbia
I want to visit Serbia too!
I know albania is sooo beautiful ps: Peja is I albania if you are wondering
@@ProfesionalHater271 Peja is Kosovo
@@ProfesionalHater271 noope Pec is SERBIA !
@@thejoker2214 NO Peja is in Albania its 95% Albanian
@@ProfesionalHater271 get a atlas and look for PEC it is on KiM so it belong to SERBIA according to UN 1244 !
You should have gone from Skopje to Niš, then from Niš to Novi Pazar. But Niš itslef is a great and beutiful city!!!
Tip: the O in serbocroat is shorter (you said it great in Rožaje)
You went to Serbia, but what happened?
I as a german citizen travelled with my wife from Mitrovica to Novi Pazar and had also difficulties to drive through the border. Only because of my wifes serbian passport we could enter to serbia
Oh i see. Interesting.
when you came to Rožaje it is like im in Germany small town
WHAT a Diference from Kosovo like Heaven and Earth
Ben, it's the same game that Albin Kurti plays with Serbs trying to enter their own province of Kosovo.
Not their own province
@@PalmBeachPeloponnesean More than half of the world begs to differ.
This is tru
Kur e ke ne vesh nga cila ane do flesh ?
@@besnikillyrian8520 Do ta dimë së shpejti dhe do të jetë mirë për të dy!
I have done exactly the same. Entered from North Macedonia and wanted to continue to Beograd Serbia. Denied entry on the border and instead vent to Bosnia.
welcome to the club..Hope you enjoyed the Balkans!
I have visited all countryes on the Balkans. Mostar was one of the high.
Bosnia is better anyway :)
What pasport did you have?
Kosovo was not a Republic of Yugoslavia. Kosovo was an Autonomous Province of Serbia, and Serbia was a Republic of Yugoslavia. So, if you have planned to visit all former Yugoslav Republics, then Kosovo should not have been on the list in the first place.
A question to all slavs, where were you pre 7th century?
I rest my case 😂
Byzantine empire, duh...
Where were you before 20th century?
I rest my case
😂😂😂
Question for all Epirus Greeks and Diocleian Serbs that call themselves Albanians today. What does Kosovo mean in Albanian?
Is Gjergj Kastriot burried in a orthodox church or in a mosque?
I rest my case...
@@BoxaBoleu were in ukraine
@@bgdabg6769we were in our lands west and central balkan, since 3000+ years, fo
Well one thing you can always get is coffe!
The whole stamp thing is confusing imagine you start your journey in Serbia and then enter through the administrative check point of Kosovo and try to leave Kosovo wouldn’t they say you entered Kosovo illegally?
No, that is what he was explaining. If you start with Serbian stamp you can go in and out.
....I learned something new about my home country Serbia. Have a nice trip !
You mean Albania
@@ProfesionalHater271 Call it however you want as long as are all people out of danger and live happy 😊
@@ProfesionalHater271 who talk about Albania?
Why!?
SERBIAAAAA AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU 🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺
BTW, it's not Peja, it's pronounced Pech. Albanians are changing all the names into Albanian, to prove it belongs to them. ALL toponyms, hydronyms and oronyms have and always had Serbian names, since they always were Serbian land, regardless of the Turks occupying it for about 500 yrs.
That's not correct. However much we in the Balkans would love to change history, Albanians haven't even changed their Slavic toponyms in Albania which are numerous in central and southern parts of the country.
Calling Peć Peja doesn't mean changing the name in order to prove that it belongs to Albanians. It's simply to make it conform to the dialectal pronunciation rules of the people who live there.
That's how you get Niš and not Naissus, or Srem instead of Sirmium. An example similar to Peć would be the name of the city of Peqin (Pećin), Albania, where the name retained its ć sound due to it not being the last sound in the word.
It's Peja Amen 😘
My ass
@@pileci-batakAs you are expert I have few more questions.
Do we use word Dardania (sure,not to prove it's not Serbian😂) to conform instead of Kosovo?
Why didn't they use Peja and Dardanija before? How did that become problem for language conforming just recently?
Is it better to conform it straight with a word- Albania?
I guess digging out bones from Serbian cemeteries and blowing up, burning almost a millennium old churches, destruction of monuments and spinning historical past and even claiming Serbian history as own, killing, kidnapping and taking organs of people for black market... Is also just some sort of conforming?
It is "ПЕЋ" and we are conform with that in this country. Don't try to sell us natural language changes that come with time...this is whole something different than what you explained. Like we are not upset enough. This is Balkan, every twisted word eventually pays with blood. Supporting illegal efforts is helping new blood spill in future
yeah,yeah, but today in 21 st, the truth can't be denied, the propaganda is fading away@@bgdabg6769
we serbs have had some problems with isis jihadist..albanian učk
Thats why we are suspicius
Wow Ben!! Been following your channel for a couple of months and just saw the episode where you go to Peja, my hometown, and then i realized that this was your second time there!!! Anyway, you seem so much at home seeing you walk the city streets... hope to meet you when you come back the third time!! P.S. please don't mind the people trying to politicize your post/ video and don't forget, you'll always be welcome in PEJA, KOSOVO. Take care for now... Bok
Peja is a beautiful place! I’ll definitely be back someday. Cheers 🍻
What is the main cultural site in ‘Peja’? Most beautiful historic monument of cultural significance?
@@stefan2serbI guess it can't be American, Albanian, Japanese or Nigerian site and heritage in Serbia, on historical Serbian land? Who else can have heritage in UN borders of independent country?
What is Peja? Town is called Peć/Пећ and it means Oven.
🇽🇰🇽🇰🇦🇱🇦🇱 hi guys from peja ❤️
Turkish word for this city - IPEK which means SILK
in Albanian PEJA - Thread
the most popular side is the Rugova Valley and Patriarka Church
Albanian Roman Catholic church turned in to orthodox …. its a beautiful Serbian church know , but that i mentioned with Albanian heritage ( bottom is CATHOLIC )
🇦🇱🇦🇱🇽🇰🇽🇰 World heritage of Republic of Kosovo
Why you recognize Kosovo but not Republic of Srpska?
What do you mean?
because RS was created by a genocide, war crimes and 1000s of rape. Why do you recognize it ?
@@BenTheRules no hate but i just ask, because we are in the same position, Republic of Srpska is Serbian half of Bosnia with 90% of Serbs in it
Kosovo is Serbia! 🇷🇺🇷🇸
@@DonJohnson-qi8bm ❤️❤️
I love this bus travel that you have to wake up at 3am to catch. Did you know you can rent a car from Sarajevo airport for $20 USD per day? But might not make as interesting a video.
Kosovo is not a country, but a province of Serbia, currently occupied by NATO.
Entire Balkan is occupied by fascists.
Hi Ben, Please don't put the cam. On your face all the time because I'd like to see the streets, buildings, cars, etc. Thanks
What did you mean by saying "we have entered another nation and crucially
its a nation that Serbia recognizes as another nation" ?
Serbia recognizes Montenegro, which means that I will be allowed to enter Serbia from Montenegro. Serbia doesn’t recognize Kosovo as an independent country and that’s why I wasn’t allowed to enter Serbia at first
@@BenTheRules I felt a lot of sarcasm, but nevermind. Good luck
He didn’t accidentally speak Serbian a minute in mire dita stacion autobuz isnt Serbian you spoke the correct language
The funny thing is that Even the name ’KOSOVO’ is serbian. Same with Every town and city in kosovo. Albanians dont have any culture of their own so they invade serbia🇷🇸🇲🇪 + makedonija and greece and try to make our culture and land theirs.
It's funny how you mention the bus as a van, but in Australia we just call that a mini-bus. Your videos are very educational and it's good to see that most places you visit there, the Balkan people are super friendly. Don't worry about the negative comments, they are just living in the past as you can see in the videos the people have moved on.
thanks for the nice comment! Yeah I think in the US we would call it a van. Maybe I'm wrong but the buses we have that are that size are shaped more like buses
Serbia is not Suburbia my Friend :-)
You wanted to visit every Yugoslav republic? Guess what, so-called “Kosovo” was never a republic, it’s a part of Republic of Serbia! And there is no such thing as “Peja”… it’s called Pec.
Stop with your provocations, if you don’t recognize the territorial integrity of Serbia, you’re attacking the entire Serbian people.
I never said Kosovo was a Yugoslav republic! If you watch the original video where I said that, you'll see I said I wanted to go to the 6 republics + 2 autonomous regions (Kosovo, Vojvodina). I still haven't made it to Vojvodina though
And what is your problem. He is from USA which recognises Kosovo as an independent country together with dozens other countries. Kosovo is a country which Serbia will sooner than later recognise (de facto or de jure)
@ilkejuniora4250 How old are you? 14?
@Nostalgia There are no borders, it’s an administrative line imposed by nazi nato occupiers. Technically, the +383 calling is also assigned to Serbia, just like +381… Serbia can revoke it if it chooses to. Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, etc. also issue passports. Do you consider them countries?
Look at what’s happening to the global economy: Anglo-saxon hegemony is faltering. The moment that the genocidal usa loose their influence, there will
be no more so-called « Kosovo » It’s a narco-state that draws its budget revenues from drug trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking as well as donations from Americans and Western Europeans…
@@BenTheRules Ok, Kosovo never was a autonomous region in Yugoslavia. Kosovo was autonomous region in Serbia. Autonomous means some autonomy in education, language , culture, but not borders, military, police, passport, currency ...
Autonomy to Kosovo was given by Judeo Masonic Communists and Westerners do NOT like communists but like communist's decisions and orders if those are good for them
Similarly, they do not like CCP but like Chinese people to work for free for them
Montenegro, a Serb state!
Come on, Ben, c'est une erreur de bleus que t'as fait. Il aurait pu meme t'arreter ou te donner une amende pour avoir entrer la 'Serbie' illegalement, ie through Prisitina airport. Happy you made it, though.
je sais je sais, mais au moins mnt je sais pour la prochaine fois 😭
but you said that you were there before, and also questioning, didn't try to sleep in Peja somewhere, I'll bet there are hostels too ?@@BenTheRules
Skoplje was destroyed by an earthquake
Its not Peja, its Peć!
Depending on who you ask... in English the capital of Italy is Rome but in Italian it's Roma
@@BenTheRules except Peja is a made up name that doesn’t mean anything. The only monument of any historical value in Peć is the Patriachiate of Peć which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There is no such monument in the entirety of Kosovo relating to Albanians but there are dozens more Serbian ones. Peja is just the short name for Peja Stojakovic, the sharpshooter for the Sacramento Kings who used to win the 3 point contest on All Star Weekend 😂
@@BenTheRules dude the only one you should ask are Serbs. Serbian Patriarchate from 1219. is located in Peć. There is no Peja.
the truth is revealing, the basements will reveal@@stefan2serb
Bzzz wrong, Peje means string in Albanian. Peja was known for its production of SILK from the Mulberries trees every single house had that particular tree and it is very important to the Albanian community, also from the Ottoman empire the city was known IPEK, THAT TRANSLATES TO SILK! @@stefan2serb
Kosovo is Serbia! Good job for Serbia border patrol. Ben you are very much welcome in Serbia, but for us this is a matter of national existence.
Kosovo Republika
Ti je kar, ti je tuc, bothqim je, ni shqiptar i merr 10 shkije n'qaf, jemi armatos n dardani, ju presim gati. Amo nuk ka me pas meshire per juve parazita
@@haristabic6140 amerikan fascist enclave, with u.
Why don t you give back Vajdasag to Hungary???? You can see it s wayyy to developed and rich to have belonged to the serbs.
This is the reason why you should familiarize yourself with the laws before you travel to a foreign country
for sure, will def be doing more research in the future (especially when there are tension points like serbia-kosovo)
Greetings,
Moving forward, next time, put 20.00 Euros 💶 in your passport book, and you will get a stamp and smile from the Serbian officers😂
Sorry you had to go through the detour, but you summed it up fairly in the end, this is the old world, unlike americas, people are living and fighting here for thousands of years.
Check the list of wars that Serbs have been through for the last 200 years, and compare what Serbia brought to Yugoslavia, and what was it left with in the end.
Then compare the US role in formation of Yugoslavia, with its role in Yugoslav breakup.
You shouldn't really be bitter about it, Kosmet is the intersection of the Serb history, it's not something you just give up, no matter the odds.
People r not fighting. People r always manipulated by fascist outsiders.
"proper Serbia.." 😂🤔
KOSOVO is SERBIA not just that Serbia don't recognize KOSOVO it's most of the World that don't recognize it UN resolution 1244 states Territorial integrity of Serbia which rightfully includes Kosovo I Metohija is SERBIA 🇷🇸❤️🇷🇸🙏🏻👌🏻💡
kosovo je srbija
There are serval times and cases when serbian authorities have denied Kosova Albanians and forginers just becuse they use Kosova pasports or have Kosova stems in their Passports
Eventhogh serbia has accepted Kosova IDs Passports 🇽🇰🤷🏻♂️
Lol yeah it feels like they pick and choose randomly what to accept/deny. Oh well at least now I know for next time
It’s Kosovo mate. When you speak in English you use the official English name for countries. Which is Kosovo, the original name, not a recent made up name.
For example I don’t say “Last year I went on holiday to Ellada” or “I am going to visit Deutschland”. Instead you say “I am going to visit Germany.”
Goofy people 😂😂😂
@@BenTheRulesThey pick up?
No dude. It is according to agreements. Serbia accepted all possible ways to make random people life easier.
@@stefan2serb Kosova Dardania its up to me how i refer i am not govermant dude relax
@@stefan2serb nazalost Srbija nema nikakvu vlast na Kosovu, tako da je to samo mlacenje prazne slame
If you call Priština as Kosovo, then avoid to go to Serbia. Kosovo is Serbia . UN 1244 resolution is clear. Do not come to Serbia, you are not welcome .
Sun Vojvidina nezavisne 12444, Sanxhak nezavisne sa Rashkom 12444.
Pa zasto ti onda treba pasos za svoju drzavu?
@@bashkimgjikokaj275are your parents siblings?
@@gamps2771 Pozdravi Majka i bude Kultiviran Kosovari Rrebublik sada ji nezavisna.
Pozdravi Msjko od Srce ako imas za Srebrenica ❤️👌🫠🫠🙂.
peć Пећ
These immigrated Slavs in the comments saying Kosovo is serbia search about Illyria and dardania and then you now who it really belongs to
ha, surprise-surprise!
You came from the American-occupied part of Serbia territory without any Serbian stamps and weren`t especially welcome!
How it comes
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Kosovo is albania, not serbia
The Kosovo government reciprocated what serbia had been doing for many years already.
Serbia first did not allow Kosovo number plates in to serbia. And eventually the Kosovo government did the same with serbian number plates.
It is a very common international relations action that governments take. Reciprocating.
Btw, the northern part of Kosovo is Kosovo. Therefore under the jurisdiction of the Kosovo government.
Kosovo is not a country, but a province of Serbia, currently occupied by NATO.
@@nikolaforzane2285 - NATO liberated kosovo from serbian occupation. Kosovo never was part of serbia.
It was part of the Ottoman empire, then part of yougslavia. And then independent. Serbs are delusional thinking they can occupy Kosovo. 🤯
A reminder they are not Yugoslav Capitals it is advisable to call the countries by their proper names. Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia, Zagreb is the capital of Croatia and Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia Hercegovina. People fought hard to have the freedom to not be under the yoke of Yugoslav oppression so please respect the true nomenclature of each country. Please understand that the
term Yugoslav and Yugoslavia is an insult and refrain from using it.
Thanks for your comment! I suppose "former Yugoslav capitals" or "capitals of countries that used to be in Yugoslavia" would've been a better term to use. I only compared them because they were at one time part of the same country
Thanks for your response.
However even former Yugoslav capitals is an insult to the hard earned freedoms that the people of these countries fought hard and lost their lives, in order to live under their own rule.
It it is also an insult to the people and families who escaped the oppressive Yugoslav regime.
Serbia was the only country that wanted the term Yugoslavia they invaded Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina inorder to fight the war in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina under the Yugoslav name and star and Flag and Yugoslav tanks.
You are giving Serbia the courtesy to call it by its proper nomenclature, kindly give the other countries the same respect and call them by their individual names. A reminder your origins are Croatian.
By the way your program has some interesting points but spending more time showing each country would make it even better.
@@BenTheRules Don't listen to this guy, he probably grew up in the West and is out of touch with reality. No one cares if you call these states or capitals 'former Yugoslavian' or 'ex-yu' since it's a factual statement and not an opinion. Only Balkaners that were born and raised in the West care about such nonsense since they act more patriotic than the actual people living in the Balkans and that stems from an inferiority complex they have because they ran away from their home like little girls when times got tough so now they are overcompensating their nationalism to hide the fact they betrayed their people.
@tonir6532,film your videos, create your own channel, don’t give your instructions on how the guy should do his job, by the way, he’s not bad at it 😊
What about Skopie is Macedonian, Belgrade is Serbian and Podgorica is Montenegrian capitals?
BTW Yugoslavia was the best, today all republics are shithole!
Yugoslavia was truly free county.
"Minibus" not van,when there r seats fitted,then this minibus not van
Glad you enjoyed in Kosovo, the country that is flourishing now, when is not part of Serbia !
Yeah right. You lived better even when Milosevic ruled
🤣🤣🤣🤣@@icxcnikasrb
@@edcolins5498 then why Albanians are fleeing from Kosovo?
same as serbian from serbia@@icxcnikasrb
@@icxcnikasrb plenty of Serbians fled during the 1960's to Northern Europe for better oppertunities, we actually get inviited by european girls to have beautiful kids with them and fill in some labor shortage. What's the problem?
Barbaret Sllav nuk kane cte kerkojne ne tokat Ilire🇦🇱
🇦🇱🇦🇱kosova 🇽🇰 🇽🇰🇽🇰🇽🇰🇽🇰