Bosnia and Herzegovina Travel Blogs

Not Allowed To Talk About Football
Jun 27, 2006

... from Sarejevo, and we have another five hours to kill before our next train - we're hoping the football goes to penalties. Bosnia's been great. The countryside is some of the most beautiful we've ever seen, and the contrast of the Mosques, the Churches ...

It's hard not to be overwhelmed...
Aug 4, 2006 (54 photos)

... was my primary concern in 1995? It is completely incomprehesible that then, here, 'ethnic cleansing' took place: thousands and thousands brutally murdered whilst refugees in UN safe areas; shells obliterating market places where people queued for bread; ...

Going loco down in Sarajevo!
Jul 13, 2005 (7 photos)

... because he couldn't handle lying anymore. The US knew all about what was going on the whole time but did nothing to help. Bosnia doesn't have oil. We walked down the river to clear our heads and walked into a park. We could see a bunch of old men ...

the night before
Jul 28, 2008 (43 photos)

... . We shared the room with the French guys and two other girls that were already asleep when we got there. Therefore only me and Marcin were, let's say, a mixed squad. The French guys grabbed the last bunk bed without even thinking, thus the sofa bed was ...

Welcome to Sarejevo
Jun 25, 2006 (2 photos)

... loads of photos by the way, but we can't upload them yet, so check back in a bit for bullet riddled buildings and Vinny's beard (The horror). Sarejevo is pretty non-discript during the day. It's just another eastern European city with cafes and markets ...

THE THINGS I SAW (GOING TO TURKEY)
Jul 20, 2008 (8 photos)

... the early 1990's, the Serbs (Orthodox Christians), Croats (Catholics), and Muslims all blew up each other's houses.  And Bosnia & Herzegovina is made up of an almost even portion of each. They have a beautiful country, especially the southern ...

jumping from the bridge
Jul 27, 2008 (75 photos)

... we left Mostar, we were driving through a canyon, by a river. The view was breathtaking. The whole country of Bosnia and Herzegovina is about mountains, mountains and again mountains. It`s beautiful. A shame that at the moment when we were passing the ...

Fall Vacation Pt 4: Day Trip to Kotor & Mostar
Oct 10, 2007 (52 photos)

... Bosnia-Herzegovina back toward Split, in Croatia. This interior drive was not as interesting as we had anticipated. Bosnia-Herzegovina is even more poor than Montenegro. Although the drive from Dubrovnik had been interesting for the abundance of ...

Vegas Baby
Jun 23, 2006

... get. Vinny had a whiskey brunch with the young guy who owns the house we're in, and he was saying that Croatians come and go through Bosnia as they please, whereas he's a Bosnian Muslim and can't go anywhere. We went out for beers with our new chum, ...

Stepping into a War Zone
Aug 16, 2006 (36 photos)

... out my camera a little more discreetly. The big attraction of Mostar is its famous bridge (most means bridge in Bosnia, Serbia and all the other countries with the same language). The famous site is a big-arched pedestrian bridge where local boys would ...

Vrelo Bosna
Dec 9, 2007 (6 photos)

... had no idea where to go when we got off and it struck us that there is not a lot of tourist infrastructure here in Bosnia yet. Perhaps there had been before the war but if so then little remains. Public toilets, for example are virtually non-existent and ...

Bosnian muslim family life
Jul 29, 2008 (2 photos)

... on our backapcks and producing a sign "Żelenica", there stopped a pretty big old school van, with a Muslim family from Bosnia inside. And we even hadn`t had time to start waving! They were going in the opposite direction than we wanted, thus we said ...

A lazy day in Mostar
Dec 11, 2007 (3 photos)

... . Most visitors to Mostar are day trippers rather than overnight stayers. There are some lovely shops selling handicrafts and (some) cheesy souvenirs, but the shopkeepers are remarkably laid back. Perhaps this was more noticeable after the high pressure ...

Sarajevo to Mostar
Dec 10, 2007 (3 photos)

... a series of lakes. This has created a number of lovely lakeside villages. The hills surrounding the valley were extremely steep, craggy and barren, creating an eerie atmosphere that was added to by the mist that shrouded them in secrecy. As we came out ...

Vinny's Vision
Jun 23, 2006 (5 photos)

... on each place and round of with a few thank yous. Amsterdam - smoke filled lunacy. Copenhagen - an amazingly calm, comforting and beautiful capital city. Lovely women also. Stockholm - shame we didn't have longer once we found the older parts and the ...

Dobre dan from Boznia & Herzegovina
Jul 3, 2008 (10 photos)

... took us to the nearby town of Foca. This is where we first sampled the traditional food called zeljanica, cheese and spinach wrapped in pastry served hot accompanied with youghurt for a drink...delicious. Followed by chocolate doughnuts all for 6KM ( ...

Sarajevo
Oct 15, 2008 (11 photos)

...  We bused through the Bulgarian and Serbian countryside before we headed into Bosnia.  It was gorgeous.   ...

Intermission: Entry No 20!!
Jun 25, 2006

... " 5 Ace Ventura "Do I have something in my teeth?" Honourable Mentions: Will Farrell, Stiller, Parker & Stone, Ferris Bueller and Groundhog Day. Top 5 Action Films 1 Aliens 2 Predator 3 Hard Boiled 4 Die Hard 5 The Rock Honourable Mentions: ...

The Bridge of Mostar
Jul 12, 2005 (8 photos)

... and destruction. So when we found out about Mostar and a 16th century bridge, we thought it would be interesting to see how Bosnia had recovered. Pre-war Mostar had been a small town with the focus on two religions separated by a river. Muslims on one ...

The Beauty of Bosnia
Sep 14, 2005

... one huge bed when all of the chairs reclined, so between being woken up for the two boarder crossings (Hungry/Croatia and Croation/Bosnia)the 4 of us slept soundly. I would have carried on travelling with them, all three were onward bound for Croatia but ...

My Birthday in Sarajevo
Dec 8, 2007 (4 photos)

... kicked off the First World War. Having just come from Gallipoli this had even greater significance. Despite being a similar longitude to Turkey, Bosnia is an hour behind, so the sun sets not long after 4pm. It was dusk as we headed back to Halvat for a ...

Beyond the symbolism
Jun 19, 2006 (12 photos)

... it's hard to just think of it as a city. But it is just a city, and a pretty cool one at that. I crossed into Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday and spent a night in Mostar. The city was almost completely destroyed during the Balkan war, but massive ...

Senseless
Jul 13, 2005 (5 photos)

... I was thinking to myself, I should not be here, but the tourist dollar was needed for the people, so I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. I really felt like getting on a bus and leaving straight away, but where was I to go to at this time of the ...

Finding Franz Ferdinand
Jul 14, 2005 (5 photos)

... lesson 1914 Whilst having a tour around Sarajevo, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, starting WW1 1984 Sarajevo have the Winter Olympics and everyone is happy 1991 - 1994 The war in the part of the former Slavic states Well, I have my ...

A tragic side of life - BOSNIA
Oct 15, 2005 (15 photos)

So I hopped in a car with a local Croat and headed to Bosnia. Our first stop was Medugorje. This is the second most pilgramiged place in the world. In 1991 two girls where hiking the mountain when they say the Virgin Mary spoke to them. People have ...

Reflections
May 4, 2008

... back home to Canada just to make sure the family doesn't forget me.  I went back to Europe and this time to the eastern side.  Bosnia & Herzegovina was the next stop.  In a small town in the northeast corner near the Serbian border, I ...

Dark and sharp mountains
Aug 15, 2003

Wonderful scenery, wonderful people (see issue 14 for more)

Thanksgiving in Bosnia and Croatia!
Nov 27, 2008 (23 photos)

Not many people can say that they spent their Thanksgiving holiday in a small town called Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina! It was a very long journey to get there which included a four hour bus ride to get to the port in Italy, then an overnight ferry ...

Mostar, back again
Aug 25, 2008

... still working on this. Yes, in my previous blog i said i wouldn't go to Mostar. However, i was in Tuzla today and the only bus for Travnik/Jajce already left. That would leave the following options... Banja Luka, Srebrenica, Sarajevo or Mostar.... ...

Muslim city: Sarajevo
Nov 24, 2006

En fin de semaine je suis allé à Sarajevo en Bosnie-Herzégovine avec Weena et un portugais. Après 12h de train et 2 transferts nocturnes. C'est une ville magnifique rempli d'histoire. Savez vous qu'elle a accueilli les jeux olympiques en 1984. Par contre la ...