In Vrtoče in municipality Bosanski Petrovac, the ethno village Čardaklije has been open. With 10 buildings, such as the souvenir shop and ethno-museum, blacksmith shop, pavements and weaving workshops, guest houses or taverns, inns, fireplaces, barns, drying rooms, and mills are real museum examples of a former rural life that have been realistically reconstructed.
The village has a significant impact on the development of ethno-tourism in the Una-Sana Canton (USK), and the municipality proudly mentions this in its offer. The owners are brother Radoševići, famous business people from Petrovac, who have been engaging for several years already with production and the distribution of chicken products from Vrtoče.
Although the owner Zoran Radošević expected that in Čardaklije it would offer a real vacation for people from the cities, and that in one area without mobile phones, electricity, and other technological appliances people could relax, to be around animals, to pick mushrooms, buy hay and participate in other rural work, they found something else in school trips.
The school trips, which are organized by elementary schools from all over BiH, wait for reservations for several months. Children are delighted with this place. They have the chance to play with farm animals, to ride horses, to eat organic food, and to play various old-fashioned games like racing in sacks. The hosts in Čardaklije show the children the TV-film “U svijetu postoji jedno carstvo, u njemu caruje drugarstvo” There is a land where friendship reigns), so that children in the 21st century have the chance to hear Branko Kockic, who their parents grew up watching. The prices in Čardaklije are slightly more than is common, but the juices that are served, for example from elder, rose or other natural herbs, are harvested by the local population and cannot be bought anywhere else. Other business people took Čardaklije as an example, and another ethno village is now being built, and several are being planned in the USK.
(Source: Oslobodenje; Photo Source: Facebook)
