Snow Turns Sarajevo Into Winter Wonderland

While the heavy snowfall in Sarajevo has brought traffic to a halt, the white weekend enabled people in the city to enjoy a variety of mountain sports, ranging from skiing to snowboarding.

In the city's central Great Park, hundreds of young people came with skies, boards, sledges to slide down improvised slopes.

No one need think of going to Mts Bjelasnica or Jahorina, the slopes around the city, not because the roads were not completely passable but because everything they needed could be found right in the centre.

Another popular source of fun at the weekend was jumping off roofs, balconies, bridges and other higher places straight into more than metre-deep snowdrifts.

Since Monday and Tuesday were declared non-working days in most of Bosnia, another popular activity for some was digging out one's cars from the snow - or helping a neighbours to do the same.