Mostar Hostels - Reviews and Rates

(S) The bridge in Mostar, spanning the Neretva River, connecting the Muslim and Christian Croat sides of the city of Mostar, is one of the most identifiable sites in all of Bosnia. It was built by the Ottomans in 1566. Sadly, the bridge was bombed into smithereens in during the war in 1993 by the Croats. The bridge was rebuilt and reopened in 20...

I had read that the train trip from Sarajevo to Mostar is a 'must do' experience because of the magnificent scenery. Unfortunately in winter there are only two trains a day making this trip. One leaves at 6:20 at night, well after dark so kind of pointless from a scenery point of view and the other leaves at 7 in the morning. After consulting wi...

We took a lovely train ride through the countryside of Bosnia today, to a town called Mostar. It also had damage from the war. One street was still in pretty bad shape with lots of broken up and bombed out buildings. It was a small town but we wandered around it and took some pictures. It is famous for a bridge which connects two sides of the ci...

There is only one bus that goes to Bosnia & Herzegovina every day. There was an unusual concentration of backpackers at the bus station at 8 am. Such a haggard crowd is usually reserved for the hostels of the major capitals of Western Europe. Today it's been three weeks since we began in Belgrade and we're used to being part of a rare breed. Now...

In many ways Mostar epitomizes the tragedy of the war here in the 1990s. This is a town inhabited primarily by Muslims on the east side of the river and Croats (Catholic) on the west side. Before the war, there were no real issues, people crossed freely from side to side, etc. When the war broke out the Serbs began bombarding (from what I unders...