>>50172345Croatia has beaches that gives it quite a tourism industry. The town my moms family is from is up in the mountains, the valley is quite beautiful any time we visit. There’s long grasses, boulders all over the place, and indeed some wildflowers. It’s a little more eerie but also strangely moving when visiting in winter. That area did see its share of fighting in the war, so in town it’s a couple hundred mostly old people left inhabiting whatever’s not an abandoned ruin under a thick blanket of snow as well as some isolated homes in the fields where you typically find more elderly. Young people and families all congregate in the cities where there’s opportunity. In general Bosnia has a reasonable deal of mountains throughout the country, they’re called the Dinaric Alps. They extend into Montenegro and cover lots of it. I remember taking twisty mountain cliff roads not far from Sarajevo (which hosted Winter Olympics on its own mountain) seemed extra insane with how Bosnians tend to drive. The range further extends into Serbia as well but I have less experience visiting family there.
