Cornelius Amann
October 06, 2026
5/5
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo, Jajce, Mostar and the highlands
7 days: Sarajevo and the Tunnel of Hope, highland Lukomir, Jajce, and two nights in Mostar with Blagaj and the Kravice falls.
7 days · Round trip from Sarajevo · up to 12 guests
Mostar's old town from the Old Bridge (Stari Most) at sunset Photo: Duesseljan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mostar_old_town_at_sunset.jpg)
The facts
At a glance
- Length
- 7 days, 6 nights
- Start and end
- Round trip from Sarajevo
- Group size
- 7 to 12 guests
- Longest drive
- 4 h on day 5No drive day is longer than 4 hours.
- Activity level
Moderate
Mostly easy walking on cobbles and old-town steps, about 3 to 5 km a day. The Lukomir day is a highland walk of about 8 km at 1,300 to 1,500 m with gentle climbs, and the van can take you to the village instead. The fortress climbs in Travnik and Jajce and the Blagaj fortress hike are optional.
- Meals included
- 6 breakfasts, 5 lunches, 2 dinners
- Room of your own
- + CAD 555 (estimated price)
- Season
- May to October
Highlights
Why this trip
- Baščaršija at 8 am, as the coppersmiths open their workshops
- The siege of Sarajevo with a local guide, and the Tunnel of Hope
- A highland walk to Lukomir and a home-cooked lunch in the village
- The Pliva waterfall in the late light in Jajce, and the watermills on the lakes the next morning
- Mostar's old town at 6 pm as the coaches leave, and the Old Bridge empty at 7:30 the next morning
- The Buna spring at Blagaj, the tower of Počitelj and a swim below the Kravice falls
- Spit-roast lamb by the broken bridge at Jablanica
What makes this trip different
Short drives, all published
Every drive is listed day by day, and none is longer than 4 hours.
Free time is part of the plan
Free time and choices are marked on the days they fall.
Solo without the penalty
A room of your own is + CAD 555 (estimated price).
Day by day
Itinerary
The longest drive is 4 h, on day 5.
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Arrive in Sarajevo
Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ) to your hotel in Sarajevo
- Welcome dinner
- Stay in Sarajevo
- Drive about 30 min
Fly into Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ), about 12 km west of the centre, and a driver meets you in the arrivals hall for the twenty-minute drive to your hotel near the old town. Sarajevo fills a narrow valley of the Miljacka river, with hills and minarets on every side, and the old Ottoman bazaar, the Austro-Hungarian streets and the socialist-era blocks follow one another from east to west along the river. Plan to land by about 4 pm.
Evening
In the early evening your See Sight Tours guide meets the group for a short briefing on the week, then walks you from the Austro-Hungarian quarter, past the National Theatre, along Ferhadija to Baščaršija as the cafés fill and the call to prayer carries across the rooftops. Dinner together is at a local restaurant: Bosnian pies, slow-cooked stews and grilled meats, with vegetarian dishes for anyone who wants them.
Included
- Pick-up at Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ)
- Welcome briefing with your guide
- Evening walk from the National Theatre to Baščaršija
- Welcome dinner
Free time: Free until the early evening briefing
Sarajevo: the old bazaar and the siege
Baščaršija on foot, then Sniper Alley and the Tunnel of Hope at Butmir
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Sarajevo
- Drive about 45 min
We start early in Baščaršija, before the day groups arrive, with a licensed local guide. The lanes of the old bazaar are still named after the crafts once worked in them, and the coppersmiths of Kazandžiluk are hammering by eight. We visit the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque, built in 1530 and 1531, the covered Bezistan market, the Sebilj fountain, the Old Orthodox Church and the Catholic cathedral, then stop at the Latin Bridge, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot on 28 June 1914, and the City Hall, burned with the National Library in 1992 and reopened in 2014.
Afternoon
Lunch is at an aščinica, a home-cooking canteen. In the afternoon a local siege-history guide, confirmed when you book, takes us through the siege of 1992 to 1996: the boulevard once called Sniper Alley, then the Tunnel of Hope museum at Butmir, which keeps a stretch of the 800-metre tunnel dug under the airport runway in 1993.
Evening
The evening is free.
Included
- Old town walk with a licensed local guide: Baščaršija, the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque, the Bezistan, the Old Orthodox Church and the cathedral
- The Latin Bridge and the City Hall (Vijećnica), entry included
- Sit-down lunch at a traditional aščinica
- Siege of Sarajevo tour with a local guide, including Sniper Alley
- Tunnel of Hope museum, entry included
Optional experiences
- Gallery 11/07/95, on the Srebrenica genocide
- The Jewish Museum in the old synagogue
- Trebević cable car to the 1984 Olympic bobsled track
Free time: Evening free
Activity: About 4 km on foot on cobbles in the morning. The siege tour is detailed and can be upsetting; your guide answers questions openly.
Lukomir, the highland village
Sarajevo to Umoljani on Bjelašnica, walk to Lukomir, back to Sarajevo
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Sarajevo
- Drive about 3 h
A day in the mountains south-west of the city. We drive about an hour and a half up past the 1984 Olympic slopes of Bjelašnica to Umoljani, a shepherds' village of stone houses and old stećak gravestones at about 1,300 m. From here the walk to Lukomir crosses open highland pasture with long views into the Rakitnica canyon, about 8 km one way with gentle climbs. Lukomir, at about 1,470 m, is often called the highest village in the country: a handful of families still live there in summer, keeping sheep and the stone houses with their steep wooden roofs.
Afternoon
Lunch is in a village home, with pies, cheese and fresh bread. The van meets us in Lukomir for the drive back, so nobody walks the return.
Evening
We are back in Sarajevo by late afternoon, with the evening free. The village road is gravel and open roughly from late spring to autumn, which is why this trip runs May to October.
Included
- Guided highland walk from Umoljani to Lukomir with a local mountain guide
- Home-cooked lunch in Lukomir
- Van back from Lukomir to Sarajevo
Easier option: Ride in the van to Lukomir and take a short walk around the village and the canyon rim instead of the full walk.
More active option: Walk the full circuit back from Lukomir to Umoljani along the canyon edge, about 16 km in all.
Free time: Evening free
Activity: About 8 km on grassy and rocky paths at 1,300 to 1,500 m, with about 300 m of gentle climbing. Good shoes and a warm layer; the weather changes fast at altitude.
Travnik and Jajce
Sarajevo to Travnik, then Jajce
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Jajce
- Drive about 3 h
Morning
We leave Sarajevo after breakfast and drive about an hour and a half north-west to Travnik, seat of the Ottoman viziers of Bosnia for more than a century.
Afternoon
Walk through the old town with your guide: the Colourful Mosque with its painted facade, the house where the writer Ivo Andrić was born in 1892, and the fortress above the town, then lunch by Plava Voda, the cold spring that runs through the lower town. An hour further on is Jajce, the royal town of medieval Bosnia, built on a rock where the Pliva drops into the Vrbas. A local guide walks you through the town walls and the catacombs to the fortress, and to the AVNOJ museum, where the second session of the partisan council met on 29 November 1943 and laid the basis for socialist Yugoslavia. In the late light we go down to the viewpoint below the Pliva waterfall, which falls about 20 m into the river in the middle of town.
Evening
Dinner together in Jajce.
Included
- Travnik old town with your guide: the Colourful Mosque, the Ivo Andrić birth house and the fortress
- Sit-down lunch by the Plava Voda spring in Travnik
- Jajce with a local guide: the walls, the catacombs, the fortress and the AVNOJ museum, entries included
- The Pliva waterfall viewpoint
- Dinner together in Jajce
Activity: About 4 km on foot with steep lanes and steps up to the Travnik and Jajce fortresses; both climbs can be skipped.
Down the Neretva to Mostar
Jajce to the Pliva lakes, then Prozor, Jablanica and Mostar
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Mostar
- Drive about 4 h
An early walk to the Pliva lakes just outside Jajce, where small wooden watermills stand on the falls between the lakes, best before the day visitors come. Then we drive south over the hills by Bugojno and Prozor to Jablanica, about 155 km and two and three quarter hours with a coffee stop. Here the broken railway bridge over the Neretva, blown up in 1943 in the Battle of the Neretva, still lies in the river beside a small museum.
Afternoon
Lunch is spit-roast lamb, the town's speciality. The road then follows the green Neretva gorge south to Mostar, about an hour. We check in and rest through the heat of the afternoon, and at about 6 pm, as the day-trippers' coaches leave, a licensed local guide walks you through the old town: the Crooked Bridge, the Koski Mehmed Pasha mosque and its minaret, and the Old Bridge, first built in 1566, destroyed in 1993 and rebuilt in 2004.
Evening
The evening is free by the river.
Included
- Early walk to the watermills of the Pliva lakes
- The Neretva bridge and museum at Jablanica, entry included
- Sit-down lunch of spit-roast lamb in Jablanica
- Evening old town walk in Mostar with a licensed local guide
- Koski Mehmed Pasha mosque and minaret, entry included
Optional experiences
- The Old Bridge Museum in the bridge tower
Free time: Late afternoon and evening free in Mostar
Activity: The longest drive of the trip, about three and three quarter hours and 215 km in all, broken at Jablanica for the museum and lunch, with a coffee stop before it.
Herzegovina: Blagaj, Počitelj and the Kravice falls
Mostar to Blagaj, Počitelj and the Kravice waterfalls, back to Mostar
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Mostar
- Drive about 2 h
Start with the Old Bridge at about 7:30, when the Kujundžiluk bazaar is still shuttered and the stone is cool. Then it is twenty minutes to Blagaj, where the Buna river rises from a cave at the foot of a 200-metre cliff and the dervish house, the tekke, stands on the water's edge. Visit it before the coaches arrive. We continue south to Počitelj, a walled Ottoman village climbing the hillside above the Neretva, with its mosque, its hammam and a tower to climb for the view down the valley.
Afternoon
Lunch is a sit-down meal by the river near Počitelj. In the heat of the afternoon we go to the Kravice waterfalls on the Trebižat, a wide horseshoe of falls about 25 m high, where in summer you can swim in the pool below.
Evening
Back in Mostar by about 5 pm for a free evening. Dinner tonight is a farewell meal together on the river terrace.
Included
- The Old Bridge early, before the bazaar opens
- Blagaj: the Buna spring and the dervish house, entry included
- Počitelj: the old village, the mosque and the tower
- Sit-down lunch near Počitelj
- The Kravice waterfalls, entry included
- Farewell dinner in Mostar
Easier option: Stay by the water at Blagaj and Kravice; skip the steps up to the Počitelj tower.
More active option: Climb from Blagaj to the medieval Stjepan Grad fortress on the cliff above the spring, about an hour up on a rocky path, before lunch.
Free time: Late afternoon free in Mostar
Activity: Bring a swimsuit from June to September; the water at Kravice is cold and swimming is at your own risk.
Konjic and back to Sarajevo
Mostar up the Neretva to Konjic, then Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ)
- Breakfast
- Drive about 2.5 h
Morning
A last breakfast in Mostar, then we drive north up the Neretva valley, past the emerald water of Jablanica lake, to Konjic, about an hour and a quarter. Konjic's single-arched stone bridge was built in 1682, blown up in 1945 and rebuilt in 2009, and the old town around it is a short, easy walk with coffee by the river. From Konjic it is about an hour to Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ), arriving around 1 pm, with a drop-off in central Sarajevo for anyone staying on. Book a flight leaving after about 3 pm. If you would rather end in Mostar, or fly out of Dubrovnik to join our Balkans circuit or head home, tell us when you book and we arrange the transfer. Your guide sees you to the airport and checks your flight before saying goodbye.
Included
- Konjic: the old stone bridge and a short walk with your guide
- Drop-off at Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ) or a central Sarajevo hotel
Optional experiences
- Tito's nuclear bunker (ARK D-0) near Konjic, by advance booking, needs a flight after about 6 pm
Easier option: For an early flight we drive straight from Mostar to the airport, about two hours.
Activity: Book a flight leaving Sarajevo after about 3 pm.
- Sarajevo3 nights
- Jajce1 night
- Mostar2 nights
- Sarajevoend
- Overnight stop
- Day trip
- By boat or train
Wildlife and weather: Sarajevo and the highlands are mild in summer and cool at night; Mostar and Herzegovina can pass 35°C in July and August, so we tour early and late there and rest in the afternoon. May and October bring fresher days and the odd mountain shower.
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Before you book
Right for you?
Good for you if you want
- Travellers who want Bosnia on its own, not a day stop on a coast trip
- History readers: Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav and the 1990s, told by local guides
- Walkers who like one highland day without a full trek
- A first trip to the Balkans, or a week to add to the Croatian or Montenegrin coast
Not for you if you want
- Step-free access: old towns are cobbled and steep, with steps at every fortress
- Anyone who wants to avoid the war history, which is a large part of days 2 and 5
- A beach holiday
- Travellers who want luxury resort hotels
Book flights after we confirm your seat.
6 nights
Where you'll stay
Your hotels are named in your trip confirmation.
- Sarajevo3 nights
- Jajce1 night
- Mostar2 nights
One price
What's in the price
Included
Accommodation
- 6 nights: 3 in Sarajevo, 1 in Jajce, 2 in Mostar
- Central hotels of at least 3-star-plus standard, named when we confirm your dates
- Rooms shared, or your own for a supplement
Transport
- Pick-up and drop-off at Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ)
- Our own vehicle and driver for the whole route
- Transfer to Mostar or Dubrovnik at the end on request, priced when you book
Your guide
- A See Sight Tours guide with the group for all 7 days
- Licensed local guides in Sarajevo, Jajce and Mostar, a siege-history guide in Sarajevo and a mountain guide for Lukomir
Activities
- Sarajevo: Baščaršija walk, the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque, the City Hall and the Latin Bridge
- Sarajevo: siege tour along Sniper Alley and the Tunnel of Hope museum
- Bjelašnica: the walk from Umoljani to Lukomir
- Travnik: the old town, the Colourful Mosque and the Ivo Andrić birth house
- Jajce: the walls, catacombs, fortress, AVNOJ museum and the Pliva waterfall
- The Pliva lakes watermills
- Jablanica: the Neretva bridge and museum
- Mostar: old town walk, the Old Bridge and the Koski Mehmed Pasha mosque and minaret
- Blagaj: the Buna spring and the dervish house
- Počitelj: the old village and tower
- The Kravice waterfalls
- Konjic: the old bridge
Meals
- 6 breakfasts
- 5 sit-down lunches: Sarajevo, Lukomir, Travnik, Jablanica and near Počitelj
- 3 dinners: welcome dinner in Sarajevo, dinner in Jajce, farewell dinner in Mostar
Not included
- International flights to Sarajevo and home
- Visa, if your passport needs one
- Travel insurance
- Meals not listed: lunch on day 7 and dinners in Sarajevo on days 2 and 3 and in Mostar on day 5
- Drinks
- Tips for guides and driver
- Optional activities: Gallery 11/07/95, the Jewish Museum, the Trebević cable car, the Old Bridge Museum, Tito's bunker
- Transfers to Mostar or Dubrovnik at the end
- Personal expenses
Extras
- Room of your own
- CAD 555 (estimated price)
When you can go
Dates and prices
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Questions
What does the price include?
Six nights in central hotels, 6 breakfasts, 5 sit-down lunches and 3 dinners, airport transfers in Sarajevo, our own vehicle and driver, a See Sight Tours guide throughout, local guides in Sarajevo, Jajce and Mostar, and every visit in the day plan, including the siege tour, the Tunnel of Hope, the Lukomir walk and the Kravice falls.
How big is the group?
The small-group trip runs with 7 to 12 guests in one vehicle, so everyone hears the guide in the bazaar lanes and the group fits round one table in a village home in Lukomir.
Who leads the trip?
A See Sight Tours guide travels with the group for all seven days. Licensed local guides join for the old towns of Sarajevo, Jajce and Mostar, a local siege-history guide, ideally someone who lived through it and confirmed when you book, leads the war-history afternoon, and a mountain guide walks with us to Lukomir.
How fit do I need to be?
Moderate. Most days are 3 to 5 km on cobbles and steps. The Lukomir walk is about 8 km on highland paths at around 1,400 m with gentle climbs; if you prefer, ride in the van to the village and take a short walk there. Fortress climbs are optional.
Is there a single supplement for solo travellers?
Yes, a room of your own costs from CAD 555 extra, shown before you book with no charge added later. Without a private room, solo travellers pay the same twin-share price as everyone else; ask us if you would like to be paired with another guest.
When is the best time to go?
May to October. The Lukomir road is gravel and generally open only from late spring to autumn, and you can swim at Kravice in summer. July and August are hot in Mostar, so we tour early and late; May, June, September and October are cooler and quieter.
How does booking work?
Choose a date and send a request to book. We confirm availability and your trip within 24 hours, and no payment is taken when you send the request. Prices are per person sharing a room, taxes included: from CAD 3,275 in the small group.
Can we travel privately or on our own dates?
Yes. The trip also runs as a private trip for your party only, on a date you choose, with your own guide and vehicle. If you would rather travel independently on your own dates, ask us from the dates section and we will quote the hotels, transfers and local guides for you.
Do I need a visa for Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Canadian, US, UK and EU passport holders can visit visa-free for up to 90 days in any 180. Your passport should be valid for the length of your stay; check the current rules for your nationality before you travel, and tell us if you need a letter.
Is Bosnia and Herzegovina safe to visit?
Yes. Sarajevo, Mostar and the towns on this route are welcoming and widely visited, and the war ended in 1995. Some rural areas still have uncleared landmines, so our walks keep to marked paths and your guide tells you where not to step off them.
Can I combine this with the Balkans coast trip?
Yes. This week ends in Sarajevo, and we can end it in Mostar or with a transfer to Dubrovnik instead. Our 12-day Balkans trip from Dubrovnik through Mostar, Sarajevo, Durmitor and Kotor also visits Bosnia, so ask us about pairing or choosing between them.
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