Welcome to visit-bosniaherzegovina.com,
a gateway for travellers and visitors to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Open space, fresh air, pristine nature, stimulating cultural events and exciting activities make Bosnia and Herzegovina one of the hottest new destinations. Travellers can count on cheaply available accommodation, great food, a lively Sarajevo bar scene and life-changing experiences.
Whether it's hiking over one of the country's awesome trekking routes, a visit to Mostar or Lukomir, one of the last medieval villages in Europe, rafting on the river Una, or mixing with celebrities at the Sarajevo Film Festival, this country will bowl you over.
Michael Palin’s New Europe - Medjugorje, Mostar and Sarajevo
In his latest TV series, New Europe, Michael Palin travels through more than twenty countries in Eastern Europe, exploring how it has changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. What makes this travelogue even more exciting is that all of the countries visited are just a short flight away for most Europeans.
The first episode on September 16th followed Palin as he travelled through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania.
Beyond the cluster of ice-cream shops known as Sweet Corner, the street narrows to a cobblestoned passageway barely twelve feet wide. Abruptly we pass from a slice of Hapsburg Vienna into the Ottoman Empire: teetering, red-tile-roofed houses; brassware makers; Turkish coffee stalls; stone minarets and mosques.
From Mostar, the train to Sarajevo passed through Bosnia's beautiful landscape of lush hills cut through by emerald rivers. It is the sort of views featured today in a series of European television ads promoting Bosnia as an ecotourism destination under the slogan "Enjoy Life."
In the afternoon I trawled the old town's narrow alleys. Kazandziluk Street echoes to the tinny tapping of coppersmiths at work in their open-fronted shops. They fashion coffee pots and cauldrons from spent shell casings, ballpoint pens from bullets. Nearby is Morica Han, once a caravanserai offering shelter for travelling traders and now a place to browse bright woven carpets and relax with a coffee.
