Destinations
Twenty-four places worth the trip
From the capital to villages above 1,400 m and the country’s short stretch of sea, grouped by region.
Sarajevo & mountains 5 places
CitySarajevo
The capital in a valley ringed by mountains. Ottoman Baščaršija, Austro-Hungarian boulevards and the Latin Bridge sit within a twenty-minute walk.
NatureVrelo Bosne
The spring of the Bosna river: a park of ponds, streams and wooden bridges at the foot of Mount Igman.
AdventureBjelašnica
The 1984 Olympic mountain for the men's alpine races, 30 km from Sarajevo, with skiing in winter and walks to highland villages in summer.
AdventureJahorina
The ski resort that hosted the women's alpine events at the 1984 Winter Olympics. Hiking and mountain biking in summer.
NatureLukomir
A shepherds' village at about 1,470 m on the edge of the Rakitnica canyon, among the highest inhabited villages in the country.
Herzegovina 9 places
HeritageMostar
The Old Bridge (1566), rebuilt in 2004 and listed by UNESCO, arches over the green Neretva. Divers jump from it in summer.
HeritageBlagaj Tekke
A 16th-century dervish house built under a cliff where the Buna river springs out of the rock.
HeritagePočitelj
A stone Ottoman village stacked up a hillside above the Neretva, crowned by a tower and a mosque.
NatureKravica Waterfall
A wide horseshoe of falls, about 25 m high, on the Trebižat river, with a pool you can swim in.
AdventureKonjic
A small town on the Neretva with an Ottoman stone bridge, the base for rafting in the upper canyon, and Tito's secret nuclear bunker nearby.
HeritageRadimlja Necropolis
The finest collection of stećci, medieval tombstones on the UNESCO list, just outside the stone town of Stolac.
NatureBlidinje Nature Park
A high karst plateau between the Čvrsnica and Vran mountains, with the largest mountain lake in the country, wild horses and the stećci of Dugo Polje.
CityTrebinje
A sunny town of plane trees, stone bridges and wineries, 30 km from Dubrovnik.
CityNeum
Bosnia and Herzegovina's only stretch of Adriatic coast, about 20 km long, with pebble beaches, hotels and views of the Pelješac peninsula.
Central Bosnia 4 places
HeritageJajce
A royal fortress town where the Pliva river drops over a waterfall right in the centre. Old wooden watermills stand on the lakes just upstream.
HeritageTravnik
The former seat of the Ottoman viziers, with a fortress, the painted Šarena Mosque and the Plava voda spring.
HeritageVranduk
A medieval fortress town on a rock above the Bosna river, long called the gate of Bosnia, 10 km north of Zenica.
NatureProkoško Lake
A glacial lake at about 1,630 m on Mount Vranica, ringed by a village of wooden shepherds' huts.
Bosanska Krajina 2 places
Eastern Bosnia 3 places
NatureSutjeska National Park
The country's oldest national park, home to the Perućica primeval forest and Maglić, the highest peak at 2,386 m.
HeritageVišegrad
The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge (1577) over the Drina, a UNESCO site and the bridge of Ivo Andrić's Nobel-winning novel.
HeritageSrebrenica Memorial
The memorial and cemetery at Potočari for the more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys killed in the 1995 genocide.
