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79 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.
Central Bosnia · Jajce
A friendly riverside auto-camp and youth hostel by the Pliva, a 200 m walk from Jajce's waterfall and old town.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
Point-and-eat Bosnian home cooking: bamija, sogan-dolma, begova čorba, slow-cooked stews behind glass.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
Trays of glistening baklava, kadaif and hurmašice in the bazaar — buy by the piece or boxed to take home.
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.
Banja Luka & RS West · Banja Luka
The RS capital's riverside Kastel fortress on the Vrbas, the rebuilt 16th-century Ferhat-Pasha (Ferhadija) Mosque — a masterpiece destroyed in 1993 and…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
A cosy courtyard bar tucked behind Baščaršija specializing in house rakija (try the walnut or honey) plus tavern food — a relaxed local spot for a long…
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.
Una-Sana (Bosanska Krajina) · Bihać
The capital of the northwest, strung along the luminous turquoise Una — the base for Una National Park, Štrbački buk, rafting and the Una Regatta.
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.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
Coiled pita baked under the sač the traditional way — meat (burek), cheese (sirnica), spinach (zeljanica), potato (krompiruša). Crisp, oily, perfect.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Skenderija/Wilson
Yugo-nostalgia café-bar plastered with Tito memorabilia and old partisan iconography, with a garden of military relics. A only-in-the-Balkans hangout.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Ciglane
A lively terraced market above the centre — produce, cheese, honey and a row of grills and stalls loved by locals.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
Sarajevo's craft-beer scene has matured into a clutch of pubs and taprooms pouring local microbrews alongside the classic Sarajevsko lager — relaxed,…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
Shared e-bikes and e-scooters have appeared in central Sarajevo (and seasonally elsewhere) for short, flat trips along the valley and riverside — handy for…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
A permanent photographic and multimedia memorial to Srebrenica, in the city centre — a powerful, dignified introduction for those who can't reach Potočari.
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.
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,…
Herzegovina · Mostar
Riverside terrace over the Radobolja stream near the Old Bridge — trout, grilled meats and stuffed vegetables with the water rushing below.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
A lively, well-run central hostel that's the social hub of backpacker Sarajevo — clean dorms and privates, a buzzing common room and a good base for…
Herzegovina · Mostar
Mostar's family-run hostels and pansions are famous for warm hosts and legendary day-tours of Herzegovina (Blagaj, Počitelj, Kravice, Počitelj).
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
Sarajevo's grand historic hotel (since 1882) right where the Ottoman bazaar meets the Austro-Hungarian centre — elegant rooms, a famous café-terrace, spa…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
Traditional Bosnian fare in the famous "house of spite" — the Ottoman home its owner had moved brick-by-brick across the Miljacka rather than let the…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
A boutique hotel built into a restored 15th-century Ottoman hammam in the heart of Baščaršija — guests can use the working Turkish bath.
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 · Centar
A beloved basement live-music club where local jazz, funk and blues acts play to a packed, dancing room — a cornerstone of the city's music scene.
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 · 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 · 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
The Ottoman bridge beside the corner where Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, lighting the fuse of WWI.
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.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
Sarajevo's specialty-coffee flag-bearer — proper espresso, pour-overs and good breakfast, named for "ćejf," the untranslatable Bosnian art of unhurried…
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 · Mostar
An award-winning 17th-century Ottoman residence in Mostar's old town that's both a national monument (open to day visitors) and a boutique hotel — sleep in…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
The country's oldest and grandest museum (1888) across four pavilions and a botanical garden — archaeology, ethnography, natural history, and its treasure,…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
One of the oldest Serbian Orthodox churches in the Balkans (16th c., on older foundations), half-sunken below street level, with a rich icon museum — part…
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
The Željo rival and, for many, the better grill — denser ćevapi and consistently good somun. Family-run, brisk, no frills.
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.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
The grand hall of the historic Sarajevo Brewery (founded 1864, it kept brewing and supplied water during the siege) — beer hall food and the city's own…
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…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
Tiny, rustic, fairy-tale-cosy spot off the bazaar with hanging herbs and hearty Bosnian-country plates. Charming and reliably good.
Banja Luka & RS West · Banja Luka
Set in the Kastel fortress on the Vrbas, this is Banja Luka's atmospheric date-night table — Balkan plates within the old ramparts beside the river.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
Beloved no-nonsense local restaurant doing daily Bosnian standards extremely well at fair prices. Where Sarajevans actually eat lunch.
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 · 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 · Ferhadija
Sarajevo's neo-Gothic Catholic cathedral (1889) on the main promenade, its forecourt marked by "Sarajevo Roses" — shell-impact scars filled with red resin…
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 growing crop of boutique hotels and design apartments fills the centre between Baščaršija and Marijin Dvor — stylish mid-range beds within walking…
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Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar / Istočno Sarajevo
Crucial quirk: Sarajevo has **two** intercity bus stations.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
Sarajevo runs one of the oldest electric tram systems in this part of Europe (since 1895), trundling the length of the valley from Baščaršija to Ilidža,…
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…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Centar
A 1969 sports-and-culture complex by the Miljacka — ice rink, sports halls, concerts, fairs and a warren of shops, right by the centre.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Ferhadija
Old-school sweet shop on the main promenade — house ice cream, baklava, tufahija, šampita. A Ferhadija institution for a stroll-and-scoop.
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
A perfectly preserved 18th-century Ottoman-era family house turned museum — separate men's and women's quarters, courtyards, hand-carved wood and period…
Sarajevo & Surroundings · City-wide
Cheap, metered taxis you can hail or order by phone, Viber or WhatsApp — legit ones have “TA” plates. Sarajevo Taxi 1515, Crveni and Žuti.
Sarajevo & Surroundings · Baščaršija
The 16th-century Sephardic synagogue, now a museum of Sarajevo's Jewish community — refugees of the Spanish expulsion who shaped the city for 450 years.
Central Bosnia · Travnik
The old seat of the Ottoman viziers and birthplace of Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić — a fortress, the painted mosque, the Plava Voda springs and famous ćevapi…
Central Bosnia · Travnik
The historic seat of the Ottoman viziers — a hilltop fortress, the ornately painted Šarena (Coloured) Mosque with a bazaar built into its base, and the…
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…
Herzegovina · Trebinje
Southern Herzegovina's mellow wine town — plane-tree squares, a walled Ottoman quarter, monasteries on the hills and wineries all around, just 30 km from…
Herzegovina · Trebinje
A laid-back Herzegovinian town of plane-tree squares, a walled Ottoman old quarter, and the relocated 16th-century Arslanagić (Perovića) Bridge —…
Herzegovina · Trebinje
Small hotels and guesthouses around Trebinje's plane-tree squares make a mellow, wine-soaked base for exploring southern Herzegovina — close to Dubrovnik…
Northeast Bosnia · Tuzla
The north's biggest city, built on salt — home to Europe's only inland salt lakes (with beaches in summer), a lively student scene, and the birthplace of…
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…
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
An award-winning museum built entirely from objects and stories of people who were children during the siege — a toy, a diary, a pair of shoes, each with…
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.
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,…