There are new resource pages with information about Mostar for the following topics: food & drink, museums, transportation and list of travel agencies. Hopefully more will be provided in the near future. Link is also available on the menu on the left sidebar. Thanks to Isa Belle
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Bihac and Surroundings
By ISA BELLE Bihac is a town of approximately 50,000 inhabitants in the north-west of Bosnia, cut in twice by the Una River and close to the border with Croatia. A few people that I talked to made me really excited prior to my trip. They told me that it was a beautiful town with [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Visa for Spaniards and Best Way to Travel to Dubrovnik
Reader’s questions 1) Is a visa required for Spanish citizens or is it enough with the passport? 2) What is the best way to travel from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik? Do you have bus schedules/timetables? Visa for Spaniards According to World Travel Guide, visa is not required for people from EU countries. In [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Night Trains From Zagreb to Sarajevo (new)
A new train service from Zagreb to Sarajevo will begin in April, 2007. This means you can sleep on the train and have more time during the day to explore Sarajevo. If you travel by bus, you will lose almost half a day on a seven-hour bus trip from Zagreb as they only depart in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Video: Welcome to Bosnia
Bosnia’s tourism promotion ad. Have you enjoyed the video? Ok, good! Now seat back, relax and get ready for a dose of reality as “Bosnia and Herzegovina is not as singularly idyllic as the video below shown,” said another blogger who happened to blog this same video. There is nothing wrong with canoeing along the [...]
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The background song in this video is “Mostarska” written and composed by Dino Merlin. Scroll down to see the lyrics in Bosnian. I don’t have the English translation at the moment. When I complained to the sister of one of my roommate about the lack of Christmas spirit in Sarajevo, she said, “you should have [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Bjelasnica mountain
The first comment proud Sarajevans made about themselves and their city is: “We hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1984.†As a tourist coming to Sarajevo during the winter, what else can you possibly do if not hopping on an automobile whether it is your car or the local bus to one of the mountains [...]
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