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Cloudy mood, moody clouds

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After a quiet, and still rather frosty, night, we moved on to the Bijambare Protected Landscape. The area is known for its sinkholes and caves, of which the latter there are eight. The main is Srednja bijambarska pecina, with a length of 400 meters. This is the only cave open to tourist, and you get a little 25min tour with a guide. Of the roughly 1400 species of bats worldwide, almost 2%, that is to say 24 species live in the caves of Bijambare. Now, these caves are nothing like Postojna Cave in Slovenia, which you have visited with me last year, but for this area they are very significant nonetheless. Since it was still early afternoon, we decided to do a little more driving towards Srebrenica. It seems like Google Maps is rather confused in BIH in general and in this Eastern area of the country in particular. We were sent over some very despicable "roads", a couple of doubtful bridges and generally through terrain not suitable for me or any other car, really, but a quad or