The trip, in order
Follow the route day by day. Times and prices can change, so check official information before you travel.
Sarajevo Old City
Sarajevo
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Baščaršija and Sebilj
Sarajevo’s Ottoman-era commercial heart, centred on the wooden Sebilj fountain and a dense network of craft streets. Baščaršija developed from the fifteenth century as Sarajevo grew under Ottoman rule, and its streets still reflect guilds, caravan trade and religious life.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
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- 2
Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque
Sarajevo’s principal historic mosque, with a calm courtyard, fountain and major Ottoman architectural importance. The mosque was commissioned in the sixteenth century by governor Gazi Husrev-beg and formed part of a wider charitable complex that shaped the city.
- Duration
- 75 minutes suggested
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- 3
Sarajevo City Hall (Vijećnica)
A richly decorated neo-Moorish city hall beside the Miljacka River, restored after wartime destruction. Completed in the Austro-Hungarian period, Vijećnica later housed the national library and was devastated by fire in 1992 before a long reconstruction.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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- 4
Latin Bridge
A small stone bridge best known for its connection with the 1914 assassination that preceded the First World War. A bridge has crossed the Miljacka here for centuries; the present form reflects Ottoman construction and later repairs, while the nearby street corner became globally significant in 1914.
- Duration
- 35 minutes suggested
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Sarajevo Museums and Views
Sarajevo
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National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The country’s major national museum, covering archaeology, ethnology and natural history in a landmark pavilion complex. Founded during the Austro-Hungarian period, the museum preserves nationally important collections including the Sarajevo Haggadah and extensive archaeological material.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
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- 2
War Childhood Museum
A carefully curated museum telling childhood experiences of war through personal objects and first-person testimony. The collection began with memories of people who were children during the siege of Sarajevo and expanded into a wider international archive of childhood in conflict.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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- 3
Sarajevo Tunnel Museum
A preserved section of the tunnel that connected besieged Sarajevo with territory beyond the airport during the 1990s war. Constructed in 1993, the tunnel carried people, food, communications and supplies and became a critical lifeline during the siege.
- Duration
- 105 minutes suggested
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- 4
Yellow Fortress
A hillside bastion above the old city offering one of Sarajevo’s broadest sunset panoramas. The defensive position formed part of eighteenth-century fortifications built after military threats exposed the city’s vulnerability.
- Duration
- 60 minutes suggested
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Travnik
Travnik
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Travnik Fortress
A well-preserved hill fortress overlooking Travnik’s old quarters and the Lašva valley. The stronghold has medieval origins and was expanded as Travnik became the seat of Ottoman viziers governing Bosnia.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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- 2
Šarena Mosque (Sulejmanija)
An unusually colourful mosque with painted decoration and an arcaded commercial level in Travnik’s old bazaar. The present building dates largely from the nineteenth century and replaced an earlier mosque, combining religious and commercial functions.
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- 60 minutes suggested
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- 3
Ivo Andrić Birth House
A small museum in the reconstructed birthplace of Nobel Prize-winning writer Ivo Andrić. Andrić was born in Travnik in 1892, and the museum introduces his life, books and the Bosnian settings that shaped his work.
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- 60 minutes suggested
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Jajce
Jajce
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Jajce Fortress
The hilltop citadel above Jajce, enclosing medieval walls and broad views over the town and surrounding valleys. Jajce became a royal centre of the medieval Bosnian kingdom, and the fortress was later adapted under Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian control.
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- 90 minutes suggested
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- 2
Jajce Waterfall
A powerful urban waterfall where the Pliva River drops into the Vrbas below Jajce’s historic centre. The waterfall’s unusual position beneath a fortified medieval town has made it the defining natural landmark of Jajce.
- Duration
- 75 minutes suggested
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- 3
Pliva Lakes
Two linked lakes west of Jajce offering calm water, recreation, picnic areas and mountain-framed views. The lakes form part of the Pliva river system and have supported mills, fishing and modern recreation close to the historic town.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
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- 4
Mlinčići Watermills
A picturesque cluster of small wooden watermills beside cascades between the two Pliva lakes. Water power has been used here for generations to grind grain, and the surviving mills preserve a compact example of vernacular engineering.
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- 75 minutes suggested
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Bihać and Ostrožac
Bihać
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Bihać Una River Promenade and City Centre
A relaxed city centre shaped by the clear Una River, with promenades, bridges, cafés and compact historic landmarks. Bihać developed at an important crossing and frontier position, passing through medieval, Ottoman, Habsburg and Yugoslav periods.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
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- 2
Ostrožac Castle
A romantic castle-fortress above the Una valley, combining medieval walls with later neo-Gothic residential additions. Ostrožac evolved from a frontier stronghold and was reshaped in the Austro-Hungarian period into a distinctive castle complex.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
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Una National Park
Una National Park
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Štrbački Buk Waterfall
The Una’s most dramatic waterfall complex, with powerful cascades, viewing paths and forested river scenery. The falls lie within Una National Park, established to protect the upper Una’s exceptional travertine formations, biodiversity and cultural landscape.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
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- 2
Martin Brod Waterfalls
A network of cascades and channels where the Unac joins the Una beside the village of Martin Brod. The settlement grew around river crossings, mills and monastic life, while the travertine waterfalls became a central protected feature of Una National Park.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
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Konjic
Konjic
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Konjic Old Stone Bridge
A six-arched stone bridge across the Neretva linking Konjic’s historic centre and riverside quarters. An Ottoman bridge stood here from the seventeenth century; after wartime destruction in 1945, the crossing was reconstructed in stone and reopened in 2009.
- Duration
- 60 minutes suggested
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- 2
Tito's Bunker (ARK D-0)
A vast secret Cold War command bunker built inside a mountain to shelter Yugoslavia’s leadership during a nuclear attack. Constructed in secrecy between the 1950s and late 1970s, ARK D-0 preserved communications, command rooms and living spaces for a protected wartime government.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
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Mostar
Mostar
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Old Bridge of Mostar
Mostar’s celebrated stone bridge, spanning the Neretva between historic quarters and forming the centrepiece of the UNESCO-listed old city. The sixteenth-century Ottoman bridge was destroyed in 1993 and reconstructed using traditional methods, reopening in 2004 as a symbol of restoration and reconciliation.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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- 2
Kujundžiluk Old Bazaar
A cobbled old-market street beside the bridge, lined with small workshops, cafés and views over the Neretva. Kujundžiluk developed as an Ottoman craft district and retains the scale and atmosphere of a traditional bazaar despite its modern visitor trade.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
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- 3
Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque
A seventeenth-century mosque known for a riverside courtyard and elevated views toward the Old Bridge. Built in the Ottoman period, the mosque forms part of Mostar’s historic urban ensemble and was restored after damage during the 1990s conflict.
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- 75 minutes suggested
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Blagaj and Počitelj
Mostar
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Blagaj Tekke
A historic dervish house built beside the immense spring of the Buna beneath a sheer limestone cliff. The tekke developed as a Sufi religious complex during the Ottoman period and has been restored several times after rockfall, flood and neglect.
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- 90 minutes suggested
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- 2
Buna Spring
A powerful karst spring emerging from a cavern at the base of a high cliff, immediately beside Blagaj Tekke. The Buna is one of Europe’s major karst springs and has supported settlement, milling, agriculture and religious life around Blagaj.
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- 75 minutes suggested
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- 3
Počitelj Historic Village
A steeply layered stone settlement above the Neretva, combining Ottoman houses, mosque, clock tower and defensive ruins. Počitelj grew as a strategic medieval and Ottoman river settlement and later became an artists’ colony after extensive twentieth-century conservation.
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- 150 minutes suggested
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- 4
Kravica Waterfall
A broad semicircle of waterfalls on the Trebižat River, with seasonal swimming, paths and waterside facilities. The travertine barrier has been shaped by the mineral-rich river over long periods and is one of Herzegovina’s most visited natural attractions.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
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Trebinje
Trebinje
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Trebinje Old Town
A compact walled quarter beside the Trebišnjica, with stone lanes, cafés, gates and an easygoing Mediterranean character. The present old town was shaped mainly under Ottoman administration, while Trebinje’s wider settlement history reaches much further back.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
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- 2
Arslanagić Bridge
A graceful Ottoman stone bridge over the Trebišnjica, relocated stone by stone when its original valley was flooded. Built in the sixteenth century, the bridge was dismantled and reconstructed near Trebinje in the 1970s after a hydroelectric reservoir submerged its first setting.
- Duration
- 60 minutes suggested
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- 3
Hercegovačka Gračanica
A hilltop Orthodox church complex with sweeping views over Trebinje, vineyards and the Trebišnjica valley. Built at the start of the twenty-first century, the church was inspired by Kosovo’s Gračanica monastery and houses the remains of poet Jovan Dučić.
- Duration
- 75 minutes suggested
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- 4
Tvrdoš Monastery
A historic Orthodox monastery above the Trebišnjica valley, known for its church, monastic community and wine tradition. The monastery stands on layers of earlier Christian occupation and was repeatedly damaged and restored across centuries of regional conflict.
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- 75 minutes suggested
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