Best of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo Old Town, Mostar Stari Most, Pocitelj, Blagaj Tekke, Jajce Waterfalls and a Deep Balkan Heritage Tour
Browse more guides: Bosnia travel | Europe destinations Best of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo Old Town, Mostar Stari Most (UNESCO 2005), Pocitelj, Blagaj Tekke, Jajce Waterfalls and a Deep Balkan Heritage Tour, with Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge Višegrad (UNESCO 2007) and Stećci Medieval Tombstones (UNESCO 2016) TL;DR I walked into Sarajevo on a wet October morning and the first thing my host did was point at the pavement. A small red scar of resin, shaped like an exploded flower, sat in the asphalt outside the bakery. That is a Sarajevo Rose, he said. A mortar landed there in 1993 and killed three people. The bread is still warm. That sentence, and the matter-of-fact way he said it, defined the next eight days for me. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country of about 3.2 million people pressed into 51,197 square kilometres of limestone, river canyons and Ottoman backstreets, and it carries one of the densest stacks of history per square metre I have walked through anywhere in Europe...