Bosnia-Herzegovina in all its forms
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora, Discovery, Adventure / Sports & Leisure, Free time, Relaxation / Well-being.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté.
Petit Futé
Where to stay - Sarajevo ?
The map of your stay "Bosnia-Herzegovina in all its forms"
Detail of the stay : Bosnia-Herzegovina in all its forms
How to get there - Sarajevo
In the footsteps of history and religion
Steps: Banja Luka
Bosnia has been the border between East and West for more than 1000 years. It is here that Roman Christianity split and where the influence of the Western Roman Empire was confronted with the Eastern Roman Empire and later with the Islam of the Ottomans. This is the incredible history of Bosnia, its wealth, its misfortune and its culture.
Places of worship. Immerse yourself in Orthodoxy in Banja Luka. Discover Islam in Central Bosnia and Sarajevo and follow the Catholic universe in Herzegovina with, for example, the Medugorje pilgrimage. Whatever the place and the dominant religion, you will feel how much higher its influence is than in France. But beyond worship and churches, temples, mosques, madrasas and even synagogues, the culture is diverse.
Sarajevo has a thousand faces. The great invasions and annexations have permanently shaped the capital. The old city remained Ottoman and the Austrians, who built in their own way a little further away. Look for the old Bosnian houses with their overhanging storeys on the street. Finally, you will not escape the communist influence of Tito and its minimalist apartment buildings or shopping malls.
Medieval Christianity. Another fascinating route for those who are discovering the past: the medieval tombs attributed to the heretical Christian movement of the Bogomils. They left few written documents, but thousands of funerary monuments spread over hundreds of sites. These are very large steles always with magnificent bas-reliefs. Go to Stolac, one of the largest Bogomil sites in Bosnia.
Rafting, the king of white water sports
Steps: Bihać
Surprising, no doubt, to think of a rafting route, a recent sport if there is one, but in fact quite natural here. Bosnia is a country of water and mountains. The two together make beautiful, blazing rivers, ideal for white water rafting. If you come by car, start in Bihac, in the north, two hours from Zagreb. There, on the Una, you will have the right to one-day tours for all levels on two sites of great beauty. If you come by transport, you will probably already be in Sarajevo. The rafting tours are located above Konjic, around the lake of Boracko, in a natural cirque. A little further down, near Foca, is the river Tara, bordering Montenegro. The wildest, near the highest massifs of Bosnia, the Tara can be descended in 2 days with accommodation in camp. You are transported to the place from Sarajevo or Foca.
Places of interest : LAC BORAČKO
Skiing in the footsteps of Olympic champions
Steps: Šisava
In winter, three main ski resorts welcome you. In Sarajevo, the two 1984 Olympic Winter Games resorts, only 30 minutes from the city centre, have been operating normally again since the war. Go to Babin Do, the resort of Mount Igman, in the beautiful landscapes of the Bjelasnica massif, you will practice a quiet family ski. Not many lifts, but tariffs that have nothing to do with those of French resorts either. The other station, Jahorina, in Republika Srpska, which is just as close, has recently been refurbished. It is now the most modern in the Balkans. In central Bosnia, the resort of Mount Vlasic, above Vratnik, is small but charming.
