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Previously on our website you may have recalled me talking about Dragan, after looking though an old photo album of our Medjugorje trips where I found this good picture of Dragan Zovko and his wife Maja. Dragan (a very common name in this region of Bosnia), is the most experienced tour guide in Medjugorje. We first met him in 1986 when he helped with the religious tour we were traveling with (our first pilgrimage to Medjugorje) through 206 Tours of New York. It was a commercial tour arranged through a travel agency here in St. Louis. Back then, there was very little housing available, and most of the pilgrims traveling to Medjugorje were housed with individual families who had signed agreements with the commercial travel agencies to provide room and board to the pilgrims assigned to them during their stay.
The catch in the agreement was that the travel agencies got to keep half of the fee charged to the pilgrims for the room and board. That may not sound too bad, but you must understand that each and every one of these families spend their life savings updating and remodeling their homes to provide the most modern facilites possible to their guests. To this day, most of these families have not been able to replace that original loss of funds.
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I was was in Medjugorje in November, 2010. First pilgrimage to Medjugorje, it was incredible.
Dragan Zovko was our guide and he was wonderful. We really enjoyed the tour with him. I am
planning an other Pilgrimage in Oct – Nov. of 2011. Looking forward to these special and Blessed
days.
Amanda Leger
Holmwood , Louisiana