A couple of friends and I were going up to the top of the mountains near Peja for lunch and some photography. The pictures I ended up taking were definitely not the ones I though I would be. As we were driving up (I wasn’t the driver) we got hit by a logging truck. We [...]
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On Saturday I visited a Filigree “factory” in Prizren, Kosovo. The “factory” was actually a school room being used by a collection of former factory workers. Their factory is one of the recent state-owned assets that have been privatized. The person who bought it, locked the doors and shut down the factory. The remaining workers [...]
Located in downtown Pristina, Kosovo, the Albanian Ethnological Museum (aka the Emin Gjiku complex) is housed in an Ottoman era house complex and displays a collection of traditional Albanian clothing and artifacts.
Gadime Cave, originally uploaded by AMWRanes. On Saturday I visited Gadime Cave. Gadime cave is formed primarily of Paleozoic marble that is only found on the eastern edges of the Kosovo Valley. The cave was discovered in 1969 by Ahmet Diti while he was working near his house. The cave itself is approximately 1500 meters [...]
