IMG_4841 - The port of Neum on this coast is small, so freighters with cargo for there must go north to Ploče, in Croatia.
IMG_4842 - Neum, in the small section of land, through Croatia, that connects Bosnia-Herzegovina to the Adriatic Sea.
IMG_4843 - Neum
IMG_4844 - Neum
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IMG_4848 - Oyster farming (the floats in the bay) has been carried on in this bay near Mali Ston since before Roman times.
IMG_4849 - The customs stations from the BiH corridor and into Croatia. Inspection delays here inspired the Pelješac Bridge.
IMG_4851 - Roman chroniclers noted finding petrified oak branches with oyster shells attached, traces of even earlier oyster farming.
IMG_4854 - The base of the Pelješac peninsula. To the left were potential invaders and on the right, precious salt pans.
IMG_4855 - Part of the walls, built starting in 1333, protecting the salt pans at Mali Ston. Salt was then as precious as gold.
IMG_4857 - Maps of Mali Ston and Mali. Actually Ston, with the square blue salt pans, is located south of Mali Ston.
IMG_4858 - A boat launching ramp in Mali Ston.