Day 3: Prizren

Our plan for today was to take a bus to Prizren, around 50 miles southwest of Pristina. After experiencing the lack of information in the bus station yesterday, we decided the best approach was just to walk up and down the platforms until we saw a bus with a "Prizren" sign on the front. This turned out to be a pretty good tactic; I knew there was supposed to be a bus at 09.40 but we ended up being at the station early enough to jump on a different bus at 09.15.

The journey to Prizren took around two hours and cost EUR 5 each, which felt like a bargain. Prizren is Kosovo's second city, with a population of around 180,000, and it definitely felt like a bigger and busier place than Peja. Like Peja, though, it had a river running through the centre and amazing views of the mountains.

We walked alongside the river for a while. 

In one direction we could see Prizren's fortress, high above the town.

We could also see what looked like an old stone bridge.

The original bridge here was built in the 16th century, but was completely destroyed by flooding in 1979. What we saw today is a reconstructed version from the 1980s.

Prizren is one of the best-preserved Ottoman towns in Kosovo.

In addition to the beautiful mosques we did come across the odd church...

...and also, somewhat bizarrely, the odd clown!

The views of the mountains were my favourite, though  

I thought we might be able to climb up to the fortress, so we started walking uphill. That soon gave us a great view of the mosque.

A sign confirmed that we were heading in the right direction.

Shortly after this, I chickened out, though!

The road was not just incredibly steep, but made out of incredibly slippery cobbles. I was fairly certain I could make it up, but not so certain about making it down again.

We did get some very scenic views though, even with the short distance we had climbed up.

Back down in the centre of town, we started wandering around looking for a good place to have lunch.

Everywhere in the main square was pretty busy, so we ended up walking alongside the river again for a while until we came to a quieter cafe.

Today's lunch was more expensive because we had a bottle of wine which cost EUR 15...

...but the total for that, two spaghetti bologneses, two puddings and two coffees was still only EUR 31.

After lunch we had another stroll around the town...

...and found the Turkish baths, which were very pretty.

Then we had another two hours on the bus back to Pristina. We'd worked up an appetite again by this point, so stopped at a bakery nearby our apartment which served amazing meat burek. It was a fun end to what has been another really interesting day in Kosovo