Travel tips in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Historic sites

Baščaršija, Sarajevo

Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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.

Historic sites

Sarajevo Tunnel Museum (Tunnel of Hope)

Ilidža, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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.

Historic sites

Stari Most (Old Bridge), Mostar

Mostar, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

A slender 16th-century Ottoman bridge arching high over the emerald Neretva River in Mostar, about halfway between Dubrovnik and Sarajevo.

Historic sites

Blagaj Tekke

Blagaj, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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…

Historic sites

Jajce Waterfall and Old Town

Jajce, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

A walled medieval town, once the seat of the Bosnian kings, where the Pliva River plunges 22 m in a waterfall right in the middle of town into the Vr…

Natural features

Kravica Waterfall

Ljubuški, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

A wide semicircle of waterfalls, about 25 m high, on the Trebižat River, pouring into a green pool surrounded by trees.

Historic sites

Latin Bridge, Sarajevo

Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

An Ottoman stone bridge over the Miljacka River, and the place where the history of the 20th century changed course.

Natural features

Sutjeska National Park

Foča, Republika Srpska

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).