Two hours of mountain road, and a completely different country.
Which Herzegovina day trip stops at Kravice long enough to swim, what a guided hour in Bascarsija costs, and which siege tours are led by the people who lived through it.
Straight to the three most booked kinds of day
The Herzegovina circuit, an hour in Bascarsija, the watermills, the river.
Four bookings a first week in Bosnia is usually built around, with what each costs and what the people who took it said.
01The circuit dayBlagaj, Počitelj & Kravice Waterfalls Day TourBlagaj tekke under the cliff, Pocitelj on the hill, Kravice at the end. The one day trip everybody in Mostar takes.
02The first morningGrand Walking Tour Through Time and CulturesOttoman quarter, Austro-Hungarian streets and the line in the pavement where one becomes the other.
03The green interiorTravnik, Jajce, Pliva Lakes & Watermills TripTravnik, Jajce and the Pliva watermills. Ten hours out of Sarajevo, and nobody else on the road.
04The river dayNeretva Kayaking Tour near MostarKayaks on the Neretva near Jablanica, where the water stays cold all summer.
South of Mostar the country turns to stone, water and figs.
Three stops carry almost every day trip out of Mostar or Sarajevo. Book them as one long day, or pick the one you actually came for.
Sarajevo is small enough to walk and layered enough to need a guide.
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Four empires left their streets stacked against each other in half a mile. Start on foot in Bascarsija, then take the cable car up Trebevic for the view back down the valley.
Bascarsija with a local guide
Coppersmiths’ alley, the Sebilj, the Gazi Husrev-beg mosque and the meeting of east and west marked in the paving. Cheap, and the fastest way to make the city legible.
Burek, cevapi and coffee poured from a dzezva
Pie by weight at a buregdzinica, cevapi in a somun at Zeljo, then Bosnian coffee with a cube of sugar and a piece of rahat lokum on the side.
Trebevic by cable car
The gondola climbs from the old town to the ridge the city was shelled from, and now carries walkers to the abandoned bobsleigh track from 1984.
What a day out in Bosnia actually costs.
Every tour on the site sorted by price. Bosnia is the cheapest country in the region to travel in, and the numbers show it.
Guided walks, the tunnel, the cable car and the short runs out to Vrelo Bosne.
The full-day standards: the Herzegovina circuit, Jajce and Travnik, Srebrenica, rafting on the Neretva.
Private drivers, cross-border transfer days and small-group tours that go where the minibuses do not.
The siege, the tunnel and Srebrenica.
The war ended in 1995 and it is still the first thing most visitors ask about. Guides on these tours are usually survivors or veterans, and several of the sites are memorials rather than museums. Prices, running times and what each visit covers are below.
- Sarajevo under siegeFrontline positions, the shelled buildings still standing, and the streets in between, usually with someone who was here.
- The Tunnel of HopeThe hand-dug tunnel under the airport runway that kept the city supplied for three years.
- SrebrenicaA full day east to the memorial and cemetery at Potocari. Long drive, difficult subject, small groups.
- Museums and collectionsThe National Museum, the war childhood collection and the galleries that hold the record.
Coffee takes an hour here, and that is the point.
Burek sold by weight, cevapi counted out in tens, coffee served in copper with a glass of water beside it. Book the market walk before lunch and the cooking lesson for the afternoon.
- 1Mostar and Medjugorje Tour with Wine Tastingfrom $88
- 2Bosnian Cooking Lessonsfrom $96
- 3Private Walking Tour, Food Tasting and Bosnian Coffee in Sarajevofrom $66
The Neretva runs cold and green all the way to Mostar.
Rafting out of Konjic, kayaks at Jablanica, the Pliva lakes at Jajce and a shepherds’ village at 1,500 metres that still has no road worth the name.
By place, from the Sava to the Adriatic hinterland
Sarajevo to Kravice: the run almost every first visit makes.
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