Today was going to be one of my most unique and unforgettable experiences in all my travel adventures. As mentioned, I hadn't had much success finding online information about how to get a bus for onward travel out of Novi Pazar to Pristina Kosovo.My hotel had assured me yesterday I had a reservation on the 1pm bus and when I went into the agents office by the bus station they told me the same thing, to come tomorrow, and pay the driver.I checked out of my hotel ...

Today I'm heading out of Serbia into Kosovo. I was able to visit Belgrade, Novi Sad, Nis, and Novi Pazar. Its been a mixed experience.The four days in Belgrade was cold with rain probably affecting my mood of how I enjoyed it. The northern city of Novi Sad was interesting in its more Austrian character and Hapsburg feelNis was really nice being rooted much more in deeper history back to the Romans and Byzantines before the Turks. By far Novi Pazar was my favouri...

The bus had dumped me at the town market. There was supposed to be a bus station on my map and the guy from the bus was telling me in Serbian to take a taxi to go there. I wanted to goto the bus station first to get my ticket to Pristina tomorrow and so that I know where to go to get the bus, since there was so much conflicting information if there even was a bus to get outLuckily the market was right by my hotel so I was able to dump my luggage first. At first I...

Today I was going to be daring and try to venture to the southern Serbian town of Novi Pazar. This town has always fascinated me since I fist started reading about the region due to its entrenched Turkish culture.As the Ottomans began to lose Montenegro to the west and Serbia to the east, Novi Pazar was part of a land bridge linking Kosovo in the south to Bosnia in the north thus maintaining a geographic bloc remaining under Turkish Ottoman control. This land bri...