Pyramid Hunting

Our apologies for not blogging as much as we’d like. We’ve come to realize that our style of travelling in a general direction necessitates much last-minute sourcing of transport links and accommodation, and that sucks up time when we use a computer. That’s why we value books quite a bit – those thick ones that you can digest on long train rides, and inevitably, make our bagpacks look ridiculously big.

Based on some local advice, we headed out of Sarajevo to the little town of Visoko where some disputed pyramids lay. We’re certainly not experts in archeology. Merely curious tourists looking entirely foreign (being Asian/Chinese) in a small town where the pyramid saga seemed out of fashion, as evidenced by their incredulous looks and the bus conductor leading the chorus of laughter about 2 silly Asian tourists coming halfway round the world to see a slanty hill (we think).

The hillock looked nothing special. Just pretty pyramid-like from a distant and from satellite close-ups. Some excavations have revealed tunnel entrances and concrete-like slabs of stuff, but we’re not blogging about this. Check out this link to read more. What made our day a misadventure was how this stupid sign turned our 200m walk into a 1hr+ cruel uphill trek to the top of the pyramid only to find some obscure castle ruins and woolly sheep. But despite shivering in the wind, we were thankful how God kept the thunderclouds in the distant from pouring on us or sending us some sizzling bolts at the top.

Quite a bit of exercise we weren’t ready for, we confess. And by the time we descended and got redirected uphill again to the correct excavation site, it wasn’t so fun anymore. It’s like a slab of abandoned concrete left there by Stalin or Slobodan Milosevic when they left in a hurry. However we sought comfort in oddly witnessing a peacock displaying all its feathers near the road, and having a super nice security guard bring us through the underground tunnels connecting the pyramids, amidst a surreal landscape of grimy sheared sheep wool scattered on the grounds of abandoned factories.

Anyway please never come to Bosnia simply to visit these pyramids. It’s a beautiful yet recently wounded country that can offer so much more. We’ve also uploaded more pictures of Bosnia and Croatia on Facebook whenever we have more pictures to share, instead of stories. Please pray for us in our week ahead, as we head out to the countryside of Romania trying to be helpful in building a campsite for the orphans here.