In this scenic travel documentary I take you on an aerial journey through former Yugoslavia, one of Europe’s most fascinating, complex, and beautiful regions. Often overlooked as a travel destination, it offers captivating historic landmarks, vibrant future oriented cities, picturesque mountain villages, a stunning coastline, and friendly, welcoming people.
Although Yugoslavia does not exist anymore as a country, it has left a huge mark on the region. These days, it is divided into seven different countries (that are part of the wider Balkans area): Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Slovenia. While all these countries have their own distinct characteristics, there is also a lot of cultural and religious overlap.
In this 4K video, I will be traveling with a drone, showing you some of the most beautiful and interesting parts of former Yugoslavia from the sky. From the changing skylines of Sarajevo and Belgrade, to the appealing coastal towns of Dubrovnik and Budva. From hidden monasteries, impressive churches and mosques, to beautiful mountain scenery. From Soviet style industry and architecture to modern office towers and apartment buildings.
As you travel through this area, you also witness some of the visual scars from the Yugoslavia war, which tragically broke the country apart in the 1990s. However, most of the video focuses on the variety that this region has to offer today.
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Here’s a brief overview of the content in this video:
We start our journey in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country with a true ‘East meets West’ feel to it, with a blend of Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian history. We visit the tranquil Jajce watermills, Banja Luka and Mostar, and monuments in Tjentiste and Kozara. In Sarajevo, I show the contrast between the old center and the modern suburbs. I also visit industrial sites in Gacko and Zenica, the rural East, the moving Srebrenica memorial, and national parks.
After Bosnia, we travel to Montenegro, a small country on the Mediterranean Sea with a surprisingly diverse landscape. The rugged coastline is dotted with towns like Herceg Novi, Kotor, and Budva, that are popular tourism destinations. Don’t miss Sveti Stefan, a small island that is now a holiday resort. Montenegro’s hinterland is filled with mountain scenery and lakes. Here, we visit the Tara River, Skadar lake, and the arch bridge of Durdevica. We also stop in the country’s capital Podgorica.
The next part of the movie is Slovenia, a place that offers breathtaking natural beauty and fairytale castles. We start in the undeniably attractive Lake Bled, before flying to the snowy mountains of Bohinj, Kranjska Gora, and the Vogel ski resort. I continue towards Ljubljana, one of Europe’s most picturesque capital cities. We also visit places like Koper, Kanal, and Predjama.
We fly onwards to North Macedonia, with its somewhat surreal capital city Skopje. Other places we discover Ohrid, located on a beautiful lake, Krusevo with its peculiar ‘spomenik’ monument, and Matka Canyon.
Serbia is the largest country in former Yugoslavia, and its bustling capital Belgrade also the most populous city, as well as an interesting fusion between historic and modern. The mysterious secluded monastery Manasija is worth the drive into the countryside. We also visit factories in Pancevo and Smederevo. Other highlights include the laid-back city of Novi Sad and the spectacular Tara National Park.
This brings us to Kosovo, Europe’s newest country and an intriguing place to visit. From the capital Pristina, with its eye-catching national library, to the charming old town of Prizren. We also fly over Mitrovac, a complicated, yet attractive small town in the North, and the incredible Sar mountains.
We finish our aerial journey in Croatia, perhaps the most visited country in the region. It boasts some of the most picturesque coastal towns, like Rovinj, Sibenik, Dubrovnik, and Pula, with its well preserved Roman amphitheater. The country also has some beautiful islands to explore, and its capital city Zagreb offers a mix of culture, great food, and beautiful architecture.
Timestamps / video chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:05 Bosnia & Herzegovina
15:52 Montenegro
20:55 Slovenia
28:56 North Macedonia
33:24 Serbia
41:50 Kosovo
46:48 Croatia
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O YUGOSLAVIA! Once it was very well “United” under the iron-clad of “Marshal Josip Broz Tito.”
Razlicitosti koje su ko celini bile savrsenstvo ….Differences that as a whole were perfection
Jugoslavia does not exist anymore and thank God for that.Croatia is a promising country with out Jugoslavia. FREEDOM FREEDOM 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yugoslavia lives on in the Metaverse only thank god! Long live and prosper Croatia!
You mean Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Macedonia.
You mean Serbia.
NICE
Kosovo is not a country. Is it in the United Nations? If you put it as something separate from Serbia, you also had to have a Republic of Srpska separate from Bosnia.
Alli fue el bautismo de fuego de los degenerados denla OTAN!!!!😦
Still identifying as a Yugoslav.
Yugoslavia my only homeland 🥰
Niko ne moze da porekne ko god je zivio u toj zemlji da su ljudi bili jako srecni …ne uporedivo srecniji nego danas ..sad samo neka mrznja..
Nice👏🏼🇽🇰
This is simply amazing!
Yes, once Yugoslavia was a charming, developing, promising country. After the bloody and tragic break-up it is nowhere near what it had been only 30+ years ago. Over three million people left the countries former Yugo republics and continue to lose population.
A country with eventful history but also with beautiful nature , villages and special places.
A very respectfull video Stef.
Thank you for showing it in this way !!!!
NA DUBRISTU POVJESTI izmisljeni stef
Bila jednom jedna zemlja, nikad prije je na Zemlji nije bilo i poslije je nece biti. Zemlja moje mladosti, zemlja koja mi ostaje zauvjek u sjecanju ali bili smo Idioti, prodali dusu za judine skude i unistili smo je.
Es war (und ist) das schönste Land auf der Welt, Freiheit, Liebe, Freude, die es nie wieder in keinen Staat der Welt je gegeben hat und geben wird. Wir haben es zerstört und unsere Seelen an den Teufel verkauft.
thank you,…more than an ordinary essay
Video should be titled as "Former Yugoslavia from above". What about to make a video called "Soviet union from Above" and place Estonia and Turkmenistan side by side and call it "one region". That would be insult for estonians. This video is nice, but found the title very much disturbing. Thnx.
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Breathtaking Lands who I call home.Thank you🙏
Stef….. Where do I begin? This is not just a video, THIS IS PURE ART! I am writing thia after 11 minutes in this video. To be continued from a Hungarian, who is a real European.
𝐀 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲, 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡!
That’s the country where l was born happy,healthy,freedom,friendly life beautiful people good kids fully respected parents with country benefits who guarantee peacefully living
Beautiful…..but its not to be viewd on small screen…. I have tender memories of Yugoslavia, land of my birth, my childhood….. The beauty of vineyards of Podravina is unsurprising… Piece of my heart is still there…. lt is a crying shame that evil of nationalism divided the people and soaked tne land with blood and tears….Thank you for this vixeo
Breathtaking video! Respect. Ppl can argue as much as they wish on the name of the region, but they cann’t change the fact that we are indeed the south (jugo) – Slavs (slaveni).
Which country is Yugoslavia? It`s near by USA?
Yugoslavia lives in millions hearts of us who born in Yugoslavia. Only the name YUGOSLAVIA reminds me on happy childhood and make me tiers on the eyes, If you ever lost a dearest person, that is feeling. Thank you,
Kosovo i Metohija je SRBIJA 🇷🇸 zapamti to coveculjak!!
bosnien
budalaština🙃🙃. Neki su prespavali 30 godina. Kakva YU.
istina da su sve današnje zemlje zaista lijepe svaka za sebe.
It is very strange that you are not aware that Yugoslavia fell apart 30 years ago in a bloody war. I don't understand what you want to show with this video?? You show parts of various independent states that used to be part of Yugoslavia, and with the title itself, you lead many viewers to wrong historical and geographical facts.
Fortunately, Yugoslavia no longer exists. I was born in Yugoslavia as a child and experienced the dictatorship.
yugoslavia was best contrey on world
Tito, when he created Yugoslavia, he thought about everything, he just didn't think about what would happen to us Muslims, especially in Bosnia, in case the racists and nazis got hold of the Yugoslav Power, and he himself had a bad experience with the Chetniks, with Dražo Mihajlović and others who were very famous for ethnic cleansing in history… Instead of securing and strengthening the positions of minorities so that they would have a chance to defend themselves and survive, he did the opposite and perhaps created a possible ethnic cleansing together with them, of Muslims in these areas, which has been carried out for years, still has not stopped….
When you read some of the comments, you realise why this country collapsed. The truth is that the nations living there genuinely hate each other and most of them "used" Yugoslavia to achieve their national interests. Besides the fact that that part of Europe has never done a proper evaluation of the responsibilities after the WW1 and WW2 where some serious crimes were committed, they all just kind of "moved on" and never actually made a healthy relationship with the past and that's why everyone has his own interpretation of the truth and you can imagine how far are they from each other. Shame, because this part of the world deserves a lot more but as it is for now, it is not going to happen soon. Too much of pride, nationalism and wrong interpretations of the truth for such a small place. Hiwever, one thing is sure – a very nice people live there, talented nations, some of them that I met are so well educated, able to speak many languages, funny, cheerful, overall very nice people. Regards to all who live there.