Do you want more information on Bosnia Today? Just visit http://wilderness-resort.de/index.php... In 2009 I visited the wild horse herd area near the town Livno, in the west of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Zoran, one of the local Bosnians who cared about this wild horse herd at this time, was so kind to guide me. I thought we would have a lot of driving around to see a few horses from afar. But we hiked up the slope of a small hill with open grassland and just waited there. I never had expected to be surrounded by a band of some dozens of horses after a short while which did not bother about us and seem to show a nearly natural behaviour. To sit there in the middle of this herd and to watch the natural beauty of horses grazing peacefully so close you can hear the chewing of grass was an experience so amazing I never will forget... In Europe there is no better place than the Livno herd area to have the chance to get in close contact with a herd of wild horses - in 2009 numbering around 200 horses mainly in wintertime and the rest of the year they divide into smaller groups. This herd running wild and untamed was originally formed of descendants of former work horses released into the wild by their owners, replaced with mechanization in agricultural activities and large emigration almost fifty years ago. Life is hard for a wild horse. Local activists need your support to increase public interest. Tourism could be a solution. Visiting Livno and its horse herd is the best way to support the protection of the largest wild horse herd in Europe. Follow the hundreds of horse-lovers who come here every year to watch and to take photographs of these horses which have lived and bred naturally in the wild for a long time. The wild horses of Livno are depending on you. Just visit http://www.divljikonji.org/ The devastated tourism sector of this country which hosted the wonderful 1984 Winter Olympics has recovered to only a third of its pre-war number of tourists. Visiting this "green pearl of the Balkans" now, gives the traveller the unique chance, both to experience and to contribute to the healing process which is taking place everywhere in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to be welcomed by the warmest and most hospitable people.

• published: 18 Nov 2013
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