5 Great Reasons to Visit Pristina, Kosovo, Pristina, Serbia (B)

While many people have heard of Kosovo for one reason or another, the same can’t be said for its capital city Pristina. I’d long wanted to see Kosovo as it was a noticeable gap in my European travels and was able to make it a reality last summer. Pristina was where I both started and ended my travels there while travelling with a friend, but I wasn’t particularly excited to visit Pristina itself.

What’s interesting then is that I came to like Pristina, or Prishtina as it can be spelled, quite a lot. There may not be a great long list of things to do in Pristina, but that’s not the city’s appeal. I’ve been to quite a few cities in the Balkans now and yet I still found something new with Pristina. So allow me to do my best to explain why I liked it so much and why you should visit Pristina if you can.

Let’s start with the most obvious reason to travel to Pristina – the rest of Kosovo. Being the main city there, Pristina is the easiest place to get to a natural starting point for any Kosovo trip. But it’s not just transport connections that make it the place to begin your visit. The city is the perfect place to familiarise yourself with and get insight into what Kosovo is like. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).