BOSNIA · HERZEGOVINA
Stone bridges, emerald rivers, where East meets West.
Sarajevo and Mostar, the Stari Most and the Neretva, Ottoman bazaars and the weight of the nineties, Kravice waterfalls and the easy day in from the Dalmatian coast.
Only in Bosnia
A bridge, a tunnel, and a street between two worlds.
Plenty of countries have old towns and river valleys. These three you can only stand in here. A bridge the town still dives from, the tunnel that kept a besieged city alive, and the line where the Ottoman east meets the Austro-Hungarian west.
Mostar
The Old Bridge & its divers
Stari Most has arched over the green Neretva since 1566. It was shelled into the river in 1993 and rebuilt stone by stone from the riverbed. Each summer the Mostari still launch off the parapet, twenty-four metres into cold water, a diving club that has done it for more than 450 years. No other bridge on earth carries this story.
- 1 Dubrovnik: Kravica Waterfalls, Mostar and Pocitelj Day Trip
- 2 From Mostar: Blagaj, Počitelj & Kravice Waterfalls Day Tour
- 3 Discover Herzegovina Day Tour from Mostar: Kravice Waterfalls, Blagaj, Počitelj
Sarajevo under siege
The Tunnel of Hope
For 1,425 days Sarajevo was the longest-besieged capital in modern history. The one way in or out was an 800-metre tunnel hand-dug beneath the airport runway, food and medicine and people moving through a metre-high shaft. A preserved stretch is still open, walked with the people who lived the siege.
- 1 Fall of Yugoslavia, Sarajevo War Tour with Tunnel of Hope Museum and Frontlines
- 2 Sarajevo: Tunnel Museum Yugoslavia War Tour with War Veteran
- 3 ROSES OF SARAJEVO (Official WAR + CITY tour)- Story of a Survivor
The old bazaar
Where East meets West
Stand on the Sarajevo Meeting of Cultures line and the city changes underfoot: the Ottoman bazaar one way, Austro-Hungarian boulevards the other. Within a few hundred metres, a mosque, a Catholic cathedral, an Orthodox church and a synagogue. They have called it the Jerusalem of Europe for a reason.
- 1 Sarajevo: 2 Hours Old Town Walking Tour With Local Guide
- 2 Private Walking Tour, Food Tasting and Bosnian Coffee in Sarajevo
- 3 Sarajevo Grand Walking Tour
The most-booked day
The day trip that fills every itinerary.
Waterfalls, an Ottoman bridge or two, a dervish house built into a cliff spring, a stone village from the 1300s, all in one long loop through Herzegovina. More travellers book a day like this than any other trip in the country.
The classics
Bosnia's Most Popular Tours
Kravice Falls, the Tunnel of Hope, the Stari Most, the Sarajevo war walks. The trips most travellers come for.
The green rivers
Some of the cleanest water in Europe.
The Neretva runs cold and impossibly green through Herzegovina, and at Kravice it spills over a wide limestone amphitheatre you can swim straight under. Raft it, kayak it, canyon it, or just spend a long afternoon in the spray.
Get on the water →By place
Two cities, then the valleys.
Sarajevo for the bazaars and the history. Mostar for the bridge. Herzegovina for the waterfalls and the tekke. Jajce and Travnik for the Ottoman towns. Medjugorje for the pilgrimage. Lukomir for the high country.
Most visitors arrive from Croatia
Coming over from the coast?
Bosnia sits just inland from the Dalmatian beaches, and for many travellers the first taste of it is a day trip from a seaside holiday. Here’s how the crossing usually works.
By tour type
Or pick how you want to travel.
A walking tour for the stories. A war tour to understand the nineties. A raft on the Neretva for the cold green water. Coffee, cooking, hiking and the long drives in between.
South of Mostar
The Herzegovina day.
Kravice waterfalls, the dervish house at Blagaj, the stone lanes of Pocitelj, lunch beside the Neretva. Three trips we’d build a day in the south around.
Coffee, smoke and slow lunches
Pull up a chair.
Bosnian coffee poured from a copper dzezva, cevapi straight off the grill, a cooking class in someone’s kitchen. The warmest few hours you’ll spend in the country.
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