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32 places
Herzegovina · Mostar
A bar-club set inside a natural cave in the rock right off Mostar's old bazaar — you step through a cleft in the stone into a cool cavern of music and drinks.
Banja Luka & RS West · Banja Luka
The green, riverside capital of Republika Srpska — Kastel fortress, leafy boulevards, a famous nightlife and the Vrbas canyon's rafting on the doorstep.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
The 15th-century Ottoman bazaar at the heart of Sarajevo — a warren of coppersmiths' alleys, mosques, hans and the wooden Sebilj fountain where pigeons swarm.
Herzegovina · Mostar
A riverside pub by the Crooked Bridge with craft beer, cocktails and frequent live music — the social hub of Mostar's old-town evenings.
Herzegovina · Blagaj
A white 16th-century Sufi dervish lodge built against a sheer cliff at the source of the Buna — one of the most beautiful settings in the country, where a…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
The city's go-to large-format club for big DJ nights, concerts and regional pop/turbo-folk stars — where Sarajevo goes for a proper late club night.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
Baščaršija's goldsmiths' street — a glittering row of jewellers and zlatari working gold, silver and filigree just steps from the Gazi Husrev-beg mosque.
Banja Luka & RS West · Banja Luka
Banja Luka has a deserved party reputation, and pedestrianized Gospodska Street is its heart — café-bars by day that spill into a buzzing bar-hop by night,…
Eastern Highlands · Pale
The country's largest ski resort and a 1984 Olympic venue — the most lifts, the most pistes and the liveliest base village, 28 km from Sarajevo on the RS side.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
The coppersmiths' lane of Baščaršija — workshops hammering coffee sets, dishes and ornaments by hand, as they have for centuries.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
A gloriously faded old cinema turned legendary kafana — its Monday/Tuesday live sevdah nights, when a house band plays old Bosnian songs and the whole…
Herzegovina · Ljubuški (Studenci)
A 25-m-high horseshoe of waterfalls on the Trebižat river tumbling into an emerald pool you can swim in — Herzegovina's most photographed natural site.
Herzegovina · Mostar
The cobbled coppersmith-and-souvenir bazaar around the Old Bridge, plus the small "Crooked Bridge" (Kriva ćuprija) over the Radobolja — said to have been…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
Sarajevo's central open-air green market — stalls of local honey, ajvar, cheese, fruit and vegetables, and a place of solemn memory.
Herzegovina · Mostar
Herzegovina's jewel — the rebuilt Old Bridge, the cobbled bazaar, the divers and the Mediterranean light.
Herzegovina · Mostar
For the brave (and trained), the Mostari diving club will teach and supervise a jump from the Old Bridge into the cold Neretva, 24 m below — a centuries-old…
Herzegovina · Neum
Tiers of hotels and apartments climb the hillside over Neum's bay — BiH's only seaside resort, popular with families for cheaper-than-Croatia beach holidays.
Herzegovina · Neum
BiH's only stretch of Adriatic coast (~24 km) — a sheltered bay of pebble beaches, hotels and seafood, noticeably cheaper than neighbouring Croatia.
Northeast Bosnia · Tuzla
A unique salt-water lake complex in the centre of Tuzla — Europe's only inland salt lakes resort — with beaches, an "archaeological park" of recreated…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
A snug cellar jazz-and-blues bar in the old town with live music, low light and a devoted regular crowd — the soulful end of Sarajevo nights.
Central Bosnia · Jajce
A rare urban wonder: a 20-plus-metre waterfall where the Pliva drops into the Vrbas right at the edge of Jajce's old town — one of the few waterfalls in the…
Herzegovina · Mostar
The most famous table in Mostar's old town, on a cobbled lane with a fountain — a sampler "national platter" of dolma, japrak, ćevapi and more for first-timers.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Sarajevo
The capital and obvious base — where Ottoman bazaar, Austro-Hungarian boulevards, synagogues, churches and mosques sit within a few hundred metres, ringed…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
A big, long-running club/cultural venue famous for its themed nights — salsa, live bands, student parties — and a multi-generational crowd.
Herzegovina · Mostar
The UNESCO-listed 16th-century Ottoman arch over the Neretva, destroyed in 1993 and painstakingly rebuilt — Mostar's soul and one of the Balkans' iconic…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Trebević
An adventure park near the top of the Trebević cable car — alpine coaster (Sunnyland), zipline, mountain-bike trails and a viewpoint restaurant, all a short…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija ↔ Trebević
The rebuilt cable car climbs from the edge of Baščaršija to Mount Trebević in a few scenic minutes — both a transport link and an attraction, opening up the…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Trebević
The city's home mountain, reached by the rebuilt Trebević cable car from Baščaršija in minutes — panoramic views, forest trails, a luge/adventure park, and…
Una-Sana (Bosanska Krajina) · Bihać
The luminous turquoise Una runs right through Bihać over travertine steps and islets — town beaches, riverside cafés, the Una Regatta route and rafting all…
Una-Sana (Bosanska Krajina) · Bihać
Rafting the luminous turquoise Una through Una NP — from gentle family floats to the lively rapids below Štrbački buk.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
The ćevapi benchmark every Sarajevan argues about.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Vratnik
The go-to sunset viewpoint above Baščaršija — an old Ottoman bastion with a café and the famous cannon fired each evening to mark iftar in Ramadan,…