Bosnia's oldest national park, with Perućica, one of the last primeval forests in Europe, and Maglić, the country's highest mountain (2,386 m). The Valley of Heroes at Tjentište has a huge concrete monument to the Partisans' battle of 1943.
The Trnovačko Lake, a heart-shaped mountain lake just over the border in Montenegro, is a favourite hike. Perućica can only be visited with a guide.
During the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1995, a tunnel 800 m long was dug under the airport runway to connect the besieged city with free territory.
An Ottoman stone bridge over the Miljacka River, and the place where the history of the 20th century changed course.
Sarajevo's old Ottoman bazaar, a maze of cobbled lanes lined with copper workshops, cafés and ćevapi grills, centred on the Sebilj, a wooden fountain.
A 16th-century Dervish monastery (tekke) built at the foot of a 200 m cliff, beside the spring of the Buna River, which gushes out of a cave as a ful…
A slender 16th-century Ottoman bridge arching high over the emerald Neretva River in Mostar, about halfway between Dubrovnik and Sarajevo.
A wide semicircle of waterfalls, about 25 m high, on the Trebižat River, pouring into a green pool surrounded by trees.
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