Fame festival / 2011 / via Belgrade

My favorite days in belgrade are the rainy days, i dont like rain.
The shortest way from belgrade to the fame ferstival dont has to be the fastest. For example 500km from belgrade to the south of italy, to the village grottaglie, to the fame festival, takes at least 22h on the short cut, just 60km on the highway though. Crossing mountains, canyons, rivers, 5 nations, and finally the adriatic-sea.
Entering bosnia & herzegovina from serbia gives you the reality right at the checkpoint you have to lift the boom yourself or drive around it through the mud. Behind a beautiful valley. a mosque alone in the nature. a river and a nice joke of an old train running through the canyon. everywhere beautiful gravestones along the riverside disappearing in the high grass looking like mushrooms. the next town is packed with people going in and out of the overcrowded cemetery, police on every corner watching us and them. at this moment everything made suddenly sense, we are in srebrenica, and just 3 days ago ratko mladic got arrested in belgrade who killed more than 8000 muslims and bombed down the rest escaping through this valley.
The first thing we see arriving in the south of italy is a couple of combat airplanes coming back from the south throwing bombs on libya.
Between this a breathtaking monument build by tito to remember a battle and their soldiers who died in worldwar 2. See more photos here.