2018Drina Raft - First Day Cover

Throughout history, man has sought to improve, speed up and facilitate his movement and transfer things from one location to another. For this purpose, among other things, he used watercourses with a variety of vessels on them. One of the simplest vessels is raft. The raft was made of boulders that were connected with clanfi, but could also be made of cut wooden material. The transport consisted of a number of rafts, and always more powerful and experienced people went first. In our area, the first rafts started operating in 1856 and, mainly, they served for the transport of timber. The first rafters poorly knew Drina river, and before leaving, they said goodbye to their relatives as if they were going to war.