Village Life in Bosnia's Capital City 🇧🇦

Join me on an adventure to the top of Sarajevo! To the neighborhood of Sedrenik in the north of the city.
0:00 The Climb
8:11 Sedrenik
13:22 Capital City or Small Village???
21:46 Bosanska Kafa
23:10 Street Interview with Sead
27:27 Burek King is for Rent
In 2021, when I first visited Sarajevo, I one day decided to walk up a hill on the north side of the city. I ended up in the neighborhood of Sedrenik, though I didn't know it at the time. This time around, I attempted to recreate the magic of that first adventure, while talking to some people along to way. I got to meet some really cool people up there, I hope you enjoy!
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[@uncchip]

What’s crazy is that none of these people know you only used to bunt in little league

[@BenTheRules]

I think they can tell….

[@Bosniak803]

What's that ???

[@ismetakuduzovic4612]

Bravo Benjamin odlican video.Dobro pricate bosanski i dobro poznajete nasu istoriju.Hvala za spontanu promociju bosne i bosanaca.

[@agussophianharnoko2107]

After watching this video I really sure this is real Bosnia. The live so hard. I like your video. Salam from Indonesia, east Java

[@novaps4111]

I miss the hills around Sarajevo, as well as the whole of Bosnia. Simply this country is the heart of the Balkans, its mountains, forests, lakes and rivers are real hidden treasures. Now I'm in the Netherlands and it's a great country and people, but everything around me is flat and it's driving me crazy! I want to go to the hills of Bosnia again. Thanks for a video

[@BenTheRules]

There are so many hidden gems in the hills of Bosnia. Pozdrav!

[@DrDude-fp6mr]

tako je! @@BenTheRules hoces li bit u hrvatskoj uskoro?

[@havajasuleta4808]

Ben you are the Man! I am born in Sarajevo but I enjoyed your presentation,your knowledge and very good pronounciation of our language.❤

[@WeeklyRecords]

You came up the hill through the street a used to live when i was in Sarajevo. Definitly you are in love with bosnians and our culture. Thank you Ben

[@Hater641]

Respect for your speaking skills, it is really impressive. I like to watch your videos, they feel authentic.

[@BenTheRules]

Hvala ti :)

[@alenhuseinbasic899]

respect for your PP

[@ahmedmeh]

Big ups from someone with your name

[@Hater641]

@@alenhuseinbasic899 a i tebi nije losa brate. 💪

[@hurriyetperwer]

​@@Hater641greetings from turkiye

[@StonerDoomMicrodosing]

Dude, you know more about Balkan's history than me and I'm from 🇭🇷

[@felexchen6820]

"over here we have a cevapi place" I never doubted for a second, Badi

[@nukesploder]

stumbled upon your videos, what an amazing person you are in showing the customs, traditions, talking to real people. This is amazing! Greetings from an Albanian Canadian

[@BenTheRules]

I’m glad you enjoy, Faleminderit!

[@nerahajder5084]

Love all your videos. Very interesting. Keep up the good work.

[@BenTheRules]

I appreciate it, thanks for watching :)

[@lordnicholasbuzanthefearle2155]

I like how you differentiate between Bosniaks and Bosnians. I see you are a man of culture. Tip of the hat to you sir.

[@balkangamer01]

I miss Sarajevo. Great place to visit. The Avaz Twist Tower where you can see the whole city. Old town of Sarajevo “Baščaršija”. The Sarajevo Tunnel Museum. The 1984 winter olympic place in Dinaric Alps. Vrelo Bosne “Spring of Bosnia”. and so many other places as well. By the way nice video and keep up the good work. ❤ It sure brings memories.

[@BenTheRules]

It really has so much to offer. There’s no place like it! And you didn’t even mention the food :)

[@balkangamer01]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@BenTheRulesthat would be the obvious one lol. 😅 Exemples: 1. Ćevapi - grilled minced meat sausages served with flatbread, onions, and sour cream 2. Burek - a flaky pastry filled with meat, cheese, or spinach etc. 3. Bosanski Lonac - a traditional Bosnian meat and vegetable stew 4. Klepe - Bosnian dumplings filled with meat or cheese, served with yogurt or sour cream 5. Bey's soup - a hearty soup made with meat, vegetables, and noodles 6. Sarma - cabbage rolls filled with minced meat and rice, served with sour cream 7. Baklava - a sweet pastry made of layers of filo pastry filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with honey or syrup 8. Pita - a savory pie filled with meat, cheese, spinach, or potatoes 9. Tufahija - poached apples stuffed with walnuts and served with whipped cream 10. Kadaif - a sweet pastry made from shredded phyllo dough filled with nuts and sweetened with syrup. 😅

[@sharktailmusictm2536]

O, kako si samo odudarala ti Od memle i blata Sedrenika... That's a verse of the famous song Lutka sa naslovne strane, by zabranjeno pušenje. I always wanted to know where, this village called Sedrenik lie, well now I know. Thanks Man, for doing this incredible series. I could never imagine that I would learn so many things about my own country, in this and many other videos, from a American 😅 (there's a prejudice in Bosnia that Americans don't know shit about other countries, especially Bosnia) Long Story short, thank you Sir!

[@BenTheRules]

Hahaha thank you for the kind words. I will definitely check this song out now. Pozdrav!

[@tima5813]

Ben, I love your videos about my beautiful country. Hope I see you soon

[@LaEurovisionQueen]

Thank you for highlighting Bosnia Herzegovina, one of my favourite places to visit in Europe. I was in Sarajevo in April and I loved it.

[@vakat3975]

I'm glad you had a blast in Bosnia, feel welcome to visit us again, lots of ❤

[@samirbajric7117]

Hey Buddy you’re very educated man have fun in Bosnia meet best people in Balkan most friendly people

[@BenTheRules]

Hvala, pozdrav!

[@andreaaa_c]

Awesome video Ben! It’s so interesting to see this side of the city

[@WeeklyRecords]

There are couple of wonderfull points of view in Sarajevo. One is next to Yellow fortress, there is caffee shop, Kamaria...its on the map. Also one of my favorite was part of Sedrenik..we call it Zmajevac ( Vidikovac restaurant)....wonderfull view...

[@nomad-na-tockovima]

Safest capital city in Europe.

[@BenTheRules]

I agree, as long as you don't get hit by a car you should be okay :)

[@elvirhodzic5720]

Good video Ben !! I like it ! Greetings from Manchester New Hampshire !!!

[@BenTheRules]

thank you!

[@NONAME-ze1kx]

Come visit Sweden Malmo, maybe not much to see but, in Malmo living more than 80,000 Yugoslavians live here. (Don’t need to interview people , just walk around show people that follow you some cool buildings, bridges,. (Can go visit museums they cool.)

[@kenok1225]

man I lived in Sedrenik, wasn't the funnest experience. Sedrenik has it's otherworldly charm though. Talking to the people you realize how f-ed up everything is. Thank you for the video.

[@Medo46]

Honestly it's so sad to see that Bosnia is still quite underdeveloped country in the region. I know that war has left its mark, but politics there really left this beautiful country on knees. I've been to Bosnia many times, people are great, but they live really poorly. I hope that things will one day be better for Bosnian people. Thank you for going there and uploading this video. Greetings from Croatia

[@coolekikker4454]

According to the statistics Bosnia is not more or less developed than the other WB6 countries that have not joined the EU yet. Croatia and especially Slovenia are more developed but that is mostly due to their EU membership.

[@tosamja117]

No disrespect but this strange coming from a Croat. The situation there is barely any better.

[@bidigibih8679]

Its bcs your damn US ally ruined our country by giving Dayton agreement and all those three president were forced to sign and now our country is disfunctional nation with another parasite entity without them bosnia Will be fully functional country with no entity economically stable

[@ahmedmeh]

Bro your conversational skills 🔥

[@aldinlilic1511]

My friend You have 2 more settlements above Sedrenik 😄...Mrkovići and Barice..You should have reached the antennas and You would have reached them!I live near Sedrenik and next time contact Me to help You 😜

[@oviivo]

Ben back in former Yugoslavia at the age of 7 in 1967 one of my best friends was a Bosnian boy it was funny when you said you lived in Utica New York and the Bosnians liveing in Utica my ex girlfriend lived in Utica and had a Bosnian family living next door .🇭🇷 🇺🇸

[@Shigy]

love your vids pozdrav iz svicarske

[@BenTheRules]

Hvala, Hopp Schwiiz!

[@odb23]

The Otomans said:" Bosnia is full of Silver and Gold, we need this Land" .

[@bidigibih8679]

No wonder why they occupied us

[@toluwaseafolayan7991]

I wanna go on a trip with him, he seems chill

[@augustsenoa2762]

Jos se nisam Sarajeva divnog nagledao❤🎉❤

[@irmahota8799]

Did you try to run away from the fog or did you really want to explore Sedrenik? 😊

[@irmahota8799]

@@Nostalgia- Yes. That's what I would suggest.

[@irmahota8799]

@@Nostalgia- That is cool, I like Herceg Novi, but not in winter time. I Hope you like Balkans and enjoying it. You should visit Sarajevo in spring time or summer, cause it is more beautiful in terms of weather and exploring hills and mountains around is also beautiful. Sometimes it is crowded in old town during summer time, but still nice. Have fun!

[@toluwaseafolayan7991]

This guy really be travelling

[@kolobara08]

0:08 - 0:12 Old Town wasn't built by the Ottomans (Turks) per se but by Bosnian-Ottoman high ranking officials. The only thing I know for a fact, there're probably more, the Ottomans built the Old Bridge in Mostar. Majority of Ottoman infrastructure in Bosnia was built and financed by Bosnian-Ottoman rulers themselves. The core of Old Town Sarajevo was built by Isa-beg Ishakovic, founder of the city of Sarajevo and Novi Pazar (back then it was called only Pazar) and he was a Bosnian, not Turk. Yes, technically he was an Ottoman but if you say Ottoman, everyone associates it with actual Turks. But as I said and I'm repeating myself here, they haven't built it but Bosnian-Ottoman officials. And Ben, this is by no means critique or anything along those lines. You're an individual who's very well educated or familiar with complex Balkan situation. Your comprehension of "Balkan things" is unmatched in comparison to most, if not all travell-bloggers videos I've seen so far.

[@опрдбр]

because of the villagers who live in it !

[@kolobara08]

As a Bosnian myself, I hate and I really really hate to se bottles and other trash on the streets, almost everywhere in Balkan really. Even in a small village of Sredrenik there's trash on the streets :(

[@uncchip]

It’s not about the cat in the dog in the size it’s about the fight in the size of the cat in the hat

[@andabossftw]

I know the only Turkish majority Bosnian village called Do is near Sarajevo

[@smajovickemal6901]

👍

[@ahmedmeh]

20:42 when she laughs at your jokes

[@vibe9120]

Waiting for the "sadimo krompir" episode

[@nejlaalagic7165]

MashaAllah brother ❤❤❤

[@Hater641]

Pitam zbog prezimena. Jesi li Sandzaklija brate?

[@nejlaalagic7165]

@@Hater641 nisam brate. Rogatica je porijeklo prezimena. Sandzaklije su moja braca ❤️❤️❤️

[@Hater641]

@@nejlaalagic7165 Bravo brate. Bosnjaci nema veze odakle uvijek ostaju braca. Poznajem Alagice iz Priboja pa sam mislio da si im rod. Selam

[@sal78sal]

The local government needs to enforce some standards, Capital city in europe and you need certain road width in these neighbourhoods, you need to have your driveway in a certain way. Now it looks very 3rd world. That old guy thinks it was a better life in Yugoslavia. lol, maybe because he was young and health at the time.

[@gamps2771]

Sarajevo basically looks like a big chaotic village imo

[@bokismokitoki]

Trully sad that your entire serbia trip had literally nothing to do with Serbia and just Bosnia…

[@BenTheRules]

Well I am biased towards Bosnia since I have a lot of Bosnian friends from the US and I first learned about the balkans/the language by visiting them in Bosnia. Plus, I'm interested in the out of the way places people don't hear much about like Novi Pazar, etc. There are many videos out there of exploring Belgrade but not as many in the south of Serbia. But don't worry, I was actually in Serbia again recently (Niš and Priboj again) so I'll have more Serbia videos soon :)

[@lazbaja6595]

They are same people as Serbs and Croats .. Just Poturice as we call them .. Slavs that are islamazied @@BenTheRules

[@universalconquest4447]

@@BenTheRules Do some videos on the Serbian half of Bosnia haha!

[@Golubtr]

​I thought it was something strange , visting countries around Serbia when Serbia is litterally the center of the balkans.. (The heart )bordering All Balkan countries exept Greece. So i assume your Bosnian friends are muslims and they've told you about the evil Serbs..aint that right?🤨@@BenTheRules

[@SerbAtheist]

Yeah, I really found it amusing that his route was essentially almost purposely avoiding the Serb-majority areas, both in Serbia and Bosnia with the lone exception of Priboj, but even that was so he could go visit the Bosnian exclave. Whatevs. Plenty of bloggers out there who love Serbia and can't get enough of it. At least he deserves props for learning the language and, as far as I can tell, refraining from being overtly anti-Serb.

[@alexandartheserb7861]

5:10 For us, native Old Bosniaks, Serb, Sarajevo was not under siege but it was occupied in 1992. and around was native Serbian liberation army (my parents met eachotoher in Sarajevo but Muslims/PoTurice want to separate us from rest of our Serbia). War started when nonSarajevo Muslim come and kill local Serb Nikola Gardovic in city center for bearing Serbian traditional flag during son wedding. So terror start in Sarajevo in 1992. independence not siege. Siege was barrier to stop terror in other serbian area in Bosnia.

[@jeannegross-ef4br]

They abuse women.

[@BenTheRules]

who does?

[@EsmaTabak55]

18:00 When you are saying goodbye, it is best to say 'prijatno' or for older muslims 'allahimanet', but prijatno will do :)

[@BenTheRules]

"Prijatno" has been one of the most confusing words for me while learning this language, but I do think i'm starting to get the hang of it haha

[@libertas5005]

Doviđenja (until we meet again) also works.