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| Jim Markowich | profile | all galleries >> Croatia 2008 >> Kostajnica | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
| We drove across a part of Bosnia-Herzegovina on our way further inland. The river Una separates Croatia from Bosnia in the northwestern corner of the latter, and along it there are numerous town names preceded by "Bosanska" or "Hrvatska", depending on which bank of the river has the particular clutch of buildings in question. The Una proved unfortunately narrow enough for rockets, grenades, machine guns, rifles and pistols to be used across it from 1991-1995. Kostajnica is as good a representative of this sadness as any other town, and we arrived there as a gorgeous sunset was developing.
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 cemetery, Bosnia |
 new house, near Bihac, Bosnia |
 cafe on the flooded but peaceful Una River, Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia |
 row boat, Una River |
 minaret, Bosanska Krupa |
 truck and minaret, Bosanska Krupa |
 rubble and mosque, Bosanske Kostajnica |
 riverfront, Hrvatska Kostajnica |
 war damage, Hrvatska Kostajnica |
 church, Hrvatska Kostajnica |
 war damage (formerly a bank), Hrvatska Kostajnica |
 Put money on the statue's foot, okay? Maybe it prevents further war damage... |
 war damage, Kostajnica |
 bullet holes, Kostajnica |
 war damage, Kostajnica |
 sunset, Una River, Kostajnica |
 Hotel Central -- our hotel in Kostajnica |
 Our hotel eighty years ago... |
 now it's pretty empty... |
 ... with beautiful, little details in the windows... |
 a graceful, curving staircase... |
 small balconies... |
 and an utterly empty breakfast hall |
 war damage, Kostajnica |
 war damage, Kostajnica |
 did we mention that there was war damage? |
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