Banja and Luka chasing the marching group, Knezevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina.

DAY 82

17.3.2017 Ljubacevo - Knezevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. We slept in beautiful and worth of visiting "Ethno village" in Ljubačke valley. Its designed and set as an open-air museum with the intention of showing the life of a community that used to inhabit this area, its traditional architecture, material culture, and furniture. It was like a time travel, to wake up, eat breakfast and move from this beautiful and hospitable spot. The route was planned mostly along busy R414 road. It took us some navigation effort to get to it as the map wasnt so detailed and GPS navigation is not always perfect in distant areas. During the way we climed a beutiful tree to have some rest from marching. On the road we had police attention but unfortunately not a big protection. Curvy road with heavey traffic wasn't very secure and comfortable. Not far away from Knezevo we came across two small puppies who were left at the road. They obviously have been abandoned. Despite the decision of Kaja, our march master, to leave the dogs behind and dont give them any attention we tried our best efforts to find a place for them in the nearest houses. When we fail in this task we tried to leave them and run away. But they kept chaising us for hundereds of meters. Finally we decided to take them with us and eventually decide later about their future fate. Jan, Alex, Denis, Ismahan and Anna were in the logistics team. Krystian started the day with us but wasnt marching nor was the part of the logistics, but came later to overnight with the group. In the evening we had to discuss what will we do with the puppies. Reasonable minds were all against but at the end won those who were compassionate for the puppies - Ilde and Pablo took the responsibility for the dogs on them and promissed to care about them during next days. Marchers: 16. Planned: 32km, Real: 39 km.
GPS Tracking: https://www.endomondo.com/users/13828223/workouts/889278781

Jan, Anna, Helena; Clara in the Ethno village. It consist of houses, barns, a pantry, vajats (houses for sleeping), a corn storage facility, a stable etc. In total, some thirty different buildings." More info: http://etno-muzej.com/
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All of the buildings in the ethno village are authentic and were brought in from various locations. CMFA suited well with our logistics stuff! Lea, Alex and Ilde.
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Alexander (Germany).
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Ismahan (France).
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The difference between this and many other similar ethno villages is that the owner Nedeljko Branković aims to transform the Ethno Village into a fully operational arts and crafts community center.
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Clara (Austria).
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Alex (Germany) and the founder of the "Ethno village".
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Lea, ?? and Ilde.
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The group marching towards the bigger road.
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The group marching towards the bigger road.
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Wika (Poland) marching front as the security person.
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20 minutes break in the shadow of a huge tree.
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"Tree break" ;-).
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"Tree break" ;-).
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The group marching towards the bigger R414 road.
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Pablo (Austria).
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Road R414 - Banja Luka - Knezevo. Wika (Poland) as a "front security" watching for the incoming cars. Curvy, narrow road with a lot of traffic caused a lot of risky situation for the marching group.
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Pablo enjoys riding the bike.
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CMFA marching the 414. road.
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Ilde (Germany) holding the banner.
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CMFA marching.
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Ryszard (Poland) used every occasion to take a photo.
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Kaja (Germany) preparing the place for the launch break.
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Launch break.
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Ismahan (France) preparing the launch break.
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Vanessa (USA) taking picture of a war-monument. There were many of them across all the Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Clara (Austria), Kaja (Germany), Wika (Poland).
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CMFA marching towards Knezevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Pablo (Austria) rests during the break.
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Polish icecream in Bosnia. ;-)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina beautiful landscape.
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CMFA marching towards Knezevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Short break while marching towards Knezevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Banja and Luka chasing the marching group, Knezevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Kaja, the march master was strongly against taking the puppies with us.
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Thinking about the best solution for the dogs issue.
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Pablo (Austria) couldnt resist to take one puppy with him.
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Ryszrad (Poland).
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Ilde (Germany) on the way to Knezevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Kaja (Germany) on the way to Knezevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Meeting people on the way to Knezevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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CMFA on the way to Knezevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Meeting people on the way to Knezevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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According to the map we were to march 32km, we reached the accommodation spot in Knezevo after 39 km, 9 hours and 45 minutes.
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