Sarajevo tells you what happened. Herzegovina shows you the water.
Which Mostar day trip stops at Kravice long enough to swim. What an afternoon with a guide who lived the siege costs. Whether Blagaj and Počitelj fit the same drive. Reviews of every tour you can book in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Mostar, the Tunnel of Hope, Kravice, and the long day that links them.
The four days a first visit is usually built on. What each one costs, and how much of it you spend on the road.
01The Sarajevo dayFall of Yugoslavia, Sarajevo War Tour with Tunnel of Hope Museum and FrontlinesThe tunnel museum, the frontline streets and the hills the shelling came from, with someone who was here for it.
02Herzegovina in oneMostar, Konjic, Blagaj Tekke, Pocitelj & WaterfallKonjic, Blagaj, Počitelj and the falls in a single loop out of Sarajevo. Long day, and the one most people keep.
03Over the borderMostar and Kravica Waterfall Day TripThe standard run up from Dubrovnik: Mostar for the bridge and the bazaar, Kravica for the water. Back by evening.
04The first afternoon2 Hours Old Town Walking Tour With Local GuideTwo hours through Baščaršija on foot before you decide anything else. The cheapest useful two hours in the country.
Sarajevo, Mostar, or a border crossing and back before dinner.
A capital in a bowl of hills with a war it still explains, an Ottoman river town two and a half hours south, and a whole industry of day trips coming the other way from the Dalmatian coast.
Kravice, Blagaj and Počitelj are one long day, not three.
Every Herzegovina day out →The falls on the Trebižat, the dervish house where the Buna comes out of the cliff and the Ottoman village stacked above the Neretva sit inside forty minutes of each other. Nearly every tour strings them together. What each stop adds, and what a seat costs.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · Mostar and Kravica Waterfall Day Trip
Kravice WaterfallsTwenty-five metres of falls into a river you can swim in.
Blagaj TekkeA dervish house built against the rock the Buna pours out of.
PočiteljA stone village climbing a hillside, with a tower at the top.
MedjugorjeThe pilgrimage town, usually bolted onto the Mostar run.
All 23 days out in Herzegovina →
Sarajevo: the siege first, then the coffee.
Everything in Sarajevo →
Eight hundred metres of hand-dug tunnel under the airport runway, the frontline streets above the Miljacka, then the copper lane in Baščaršija and a coffee poured out of a džezva. Three kinds of afternoon carry most of this city.
A guide who was here for it
The strongest of these are led by people who spent 1992 to 1996 in the city, and they are careful with it. Expect the tunnel, a frontline position and the hills the shelling came from.
The tunnel under the runway
A house on the airport perimeter with twenty surviving metres of the tunnel underneath it. Short, and the single clearest hour you will spend on the siege.
Baščaršija on foot
Ottoman and Habsburg Sarajevo meet on one street corner and the guides all stop at it. Two hours, and everything afterwards makes more sense.
The Mostar runs and the Sarajevo war tours that go first.
Every tour in Bosnia →Between them these cover the Old Bridge, the falls at Kravice and the frontlines above Sarajevo, which is most of what people come for.
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Mostar and Kravica Waterfall Day Trip
Travel from Dubrovnik to Mostar and Kravica Waterfalls with an English-speaking guide. Enjoy a 30-minute walking tour in Mostar, about 2.5 hours of free time, and one hour at the falls. Guides such as Laura, Lora, TJ, Maria, Hannah, and Carmela are praised for clear history talks and friendly help.
From · $34
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Kravica Waterfalls, Mostar and Pocitelj Day Trip
from $35
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Mostar & Kravica Waterfalls Day Trip
from $35
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Mostar, Konjic, Blagaj Tekke, Pocitelj & Waterfall
from $88
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Fall of Yugoslavia, Sarajevo War Tour with Tunnel of Hope Museum and Frontlines
from $36
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Mostar and Kravice Waterfalls Small-Group Tour
from $110
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Mostar, Konjic, Sufi House, Pocitelj & Kravice Falls
from $87
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Mostar and Medjugorje Full-Day Tour
from $100
Mostar is a bridge, a bazaar and about four hours.
The Stari Most went into the Neretva in 1993 and came back out of it in 2004, stone by stone. In summer the divers still go off the parapet once the hat has been filled. The old town on either side is small, which is why almost every tour adds the falls and makes a day of it.
Every Mostar day out →The siege is why most people come to Sarajevo at all.
The tunnel under the runway, the frontline above Grbavica, the shell scars filled with red resin that people still step around. Srebrenica is a separate day and a long drive. These are led by people who were here, and the good ones do not perform it.
What a day in Sarajevo or Mostar actually costs.
Every day out, grouped by price. A walk through Baščaršija costs less than lunch; a full Herzegovina loop with a driver is the other end of it.
Old-town walks in Sarajevo and Mostar, the tunnel museum, and the shorter war tours.
The full days: the Herzegovina loop, Mostar and Kravice from the coast, Srebrenica and back.
Private drivers, the multi-day runs, and cross-border transfers that sightsee the whole way.
Three things that only happen in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ottoman bridges and green rivers turn up all over the Balkans. A bridge people dive off for a collection, a tunnel dug under a live runway and a house built where a river leaves a cliff do not.
The Kravice Waterfalls
The Trebižat drops about twenty-five metres in a wide horseshoe of falls and lands in a pool you are allowed to swim in. Spring is when it is loudest and the spray reaches the path; by August the flow has thinned and the water is warm enough to stay in. Boats run across the pool, and the walk down from the car park is steeper than it looks coming back up.
- 1Mostar and Kravica Waterfall Day Trip★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 4,709 reviews
- 2Kravica Waterfalls, Mostar and Pocitelj Day Trip★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 3,045 reviews
- 3Mostar & Kravica Waterfalls Day Trip★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 1,970 reviews
The Tunnel of Hope
For most of the siege the only way in or out of Sarajevo was eight hundred metres of hand-dug tunnel running under the airport runway, propped with timber and barely wide enough for a wheelbarrow. Twenty metres survive under the house at the Butmir end, and you walk them stooped. Food, fuel, ammunition and about a million people went through.
- 1Fall of Yugoslavia, Sarajevo War Tour with Tunnel of Hope Museum and Frontlines★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,314 reviews
- 2Tunnel Museum: Bosnian & Yugoslav Wars Tour with War Veteran★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 551 reviews
- 3Tunnel of Hope Tour – Survival and Resilience★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 118 reviews
The Blagaj Tekke
The Buna comes straight out of the base of a two-hundred-metre cliff, cold and full-volume, and somebody in the sixteenth century built a dervish house against the rock beside it. You take your shoes off inside. The trout restaurants on the terrace below charge coast prices and everyone pays them anyway.
- 1Mostar, Konjic, Blagaj Tekke, Pocitelj & Waterfall★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 1,335 reviews
- 2Discover Herzegovina Day Tour from Mostar: Kravice Waterfalls, Blagaj, Počitelj★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 742 reviews
- 3Herzegovina Day Tour from Mostar: Blagaj, Pocitej, Kravice falls (Join Us! :D)★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 372 reviews
Four Bosnian days that run on somebody else’s calendar.
Most of this country can be arranged over a coffee the night before. These four depend on snow cover, snowmelt and fixed departure days, and none of them care when your bus gets in.
- 01Lukomir Highland Village HikeThe track over Bjelašnica is a summer road. Snow shuts the highest village in the country for months at a time.
- 02Tara River Rafting Day TourThe rivers run on snowmelt. Spring is high and fast, late summer is low and gentle, and the season in between is short.
- 03Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Study TourPotočari is around three hours from Sarajevo each way, so these go as fixed full-day departures rather than an afternoon add-on.
- 04Mostar and Kravica Waterfall Day TripSwimming below the falls is a summer arrangement. In spring the river is high and the pool is off.
When Bjelašnica is under snow and the Neretva runs brown.
Bosnia has a real winter. Mountain roads close, the falls are too high to swim and half the Herzegovina loop turns into a long drive in the wet. Both cities are better indoors anyway: a tunnel museum, a copper workshop, somebody’s kitchen, and a coffee that takes an hour on purpose.
By place — the cities and the stops between them
Sarajevo, then south to Mostar and round the Herzegovina loop.
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