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45 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.
East Bosnia & the Drina · Višegrad
A purpose-built stone "town" by filmmaker Emir Kusturica at the edge of Višegrad — a theatrical mash-up of Byzantine, Ottoman, Renaissance and socialist…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
Trays of glistening baklava, kadaif and hurmašice in the bazaar — buy by the piece or boxed to take home.
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 · 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…
Una-Sana (Bosanska Krajina) · Sanski Most
A ~56-m waterfall plunging off a cliff near Sanski Most — tall, dramatic and little-visited, at its most powerful with spring melt.
Herzegovina · Mostar
An adventure park on the heights above Mostar with a long zipline across the canyon, a skywalk viewpoint, climbing and a café — big-view thrills overlooking…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
The grandest Ottoman mosque in BiH (1531), centre of a vast endowment that built the bazaar, the bezistan covered market, a madrasa and a clock tower set to…
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.
Central Bosnia · Jajce
The last capital of the medieval Bosnian kings — a compact hill town with a fortress, catacombs, a Roman Mithraeum, the AVNOJ museum and a 20-m waterfall…
Central Bosnia · Jajce
The last seat of Bosnian kings — a hill town crowned by a fortress, with underground Christian catacombs, the Mithraic temple, the AVNOJ museum (where…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
The coppersmiths' lane of Baščaršija — workshops hammering coffee sets, dishes and ornaments by hand, as they have for centuries.
Herzegovina · Mostar
A 17th-century mosque beside the Old Bridge whose minaret you can climb for the postcard view straight down onto the bridge and the Neretva — the classic…
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.
Banja Luka & RS West · Banja Luka
A series of tufa cascades on the Krupa river feeding old stone watermills south of Banja Luka — a tranquil, lesser-known spot of falling water and historic…
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…
Herzegovina · Livno
Hundreds of free-roaming wild horses graze the Kruzi/Krug plateau above Livno — descendants of working horses set loose decades ago, now a famous (and free)…
Una-Sana (Bosanska Krajina) · Bihać
A village strung along a fan of Una and Unac waterfalls — the Milančev buk and Veliki buk cascades, plus the medieval Rmanj Monastery.
East Bosnia & the Drina · Višegrad
The 16th-century UNESCO bridge across the Drina immortalized in Ivo Andrić's Nobel-winning novel "The Bridge on the Drina" — eleven graceful stone arches…
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 · Blidinje
One of Herzegovina's mightiest massifs above Blidinje, holding the Diva Grabovica canyon and the natural rock arch of Hajdučka vrata ("Outlaws' Gate")…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Bjelašnica/Konjic
Tandem paragliding launches off the highland ridges around Bjelašnica and the Konjic area give long, scenic flights over canyons, lakes and mountains — no…
Central Bosnia · Jajce
Two linked turquoise lakes (Veliko and Malo Plivsko jezero) outside Jajce, famous for the cluster of tiny wooden watermills (Mlinčići) straddling the…
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 · Čapljina
A stacked stone Ottoman-Mediterranean village tumbling down a hillside above the Neretva — fortress, mosque, hammam and the medersa, draped in fig and…
Central Bosnia · Fojnica
A glacial lake at ~1,635 m on Vranica mountain ringed by traditional shepherds' huts (katuni) and grazing horses — one of the most postcard-perfect highland…
Central Bosnia · Prozor-Rama
A photogenic emerald reservoir with the Franciscan monastery of Šćit on a peninsula reaching into the water — calm, scenic and uncrowded, with lakeside lodging.
Central Bosnia · Travnik
Tables set over the rushing turquoise Plava Voda ("Blue Water") springs in Travnik's old quarter — Travnik's famous grilled meats and cheese with mountain…
Herzegovina · Blagaj
Trout restaurants line the emerald Buna spring beneath the cliff and the Blagaj Tekke. Eat fresh local trout literally over the source of a river.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar/Marijin Dvor
A new generation of rooftop and cocktail bars (around Marijin Dvor's towers and central hotels) gives Sarajevo polished drinks with skyline-and-mountain…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
Bosnian coffee is a ritual, not a drink — served in a džezva with rahat lokum and a sugar cube to bite, sipped slowly in the bazaar where the copper džezvas…
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…
East Bosnia & the Drina · Foča
The Tara, joining the Drina near Foča, carves the deepest river canyon in Europe — emerald water between sheer walls, the classic backdrop to Drina/Tara…
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…
East Bosnia & the Drina · Foča (border)
A heart-shaped glacial lake beneath Maglić, technically just over the Montenegrin line but classically reached on the demanding day-hike from Sutjeska NP.
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…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
Sarajevo's pseudo-Moorish 1896 landmark — once the National Library, shelled and burned in 1992 (two million books lost), now magnificently restored as a…
East Bosnia & the Drina · Višegrad
A Drina-side town defined by Andrić's UNESCO bridge and Kusturica's purpose-built Andrićgrad — a literary pilgrimage on the eastern border, with green-river…
Banja Luka & RS West · Banja Luka
The Vrbas cuts a green canyon south of Banja Luka (Tijesno gorge) — turquoise rapids, cliffs and the region's rafting and kayaking artery, host to past…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Ilidža
The spring of the river Bosna at the foot of Mount Igman — a manicured park of clear channels, islets, footbridges and swans, reached by the leafy Velika…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
A jewel-box café crammed with antiques, oddities and curiosities — the bill arrives with a small gift. Equal parts bar, museum and time machine.
Una-Sana (Bosanska Krajina) · Bihać
The signature 24-m cascade of the impossibly turquoise Una river — wooden walkways let you stand right over the thundering travertine steps.
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,…