Family

Drink Bosnian coffee the slow way in the old bazaar

Bosnian coffee is brewed slowly in a copper džezva and served in a small fildžan with sugar and rahat lokum — less a drink than a social ritual you sit down for, shared across Bosnia & Herzegovina and easy to find in the cafés of Mostar’s old bazaar.

Mostar

Eat ćevapi where locals queue for them

Ćevapi — small skinless sausages of grilled minced meat, served in a warm lepinja flatbread with raw onion and kajmak — are Sarajevo’s everyday dish and the thing the city’s old bazaar does best. The ritual is to find the tiny ćevabdžinica where the queue is longest, order by the piece, and eat standing or perched on a stool.

Sarajevo

Bosnian coffee, the slow way

Bosnian coffee is a ritual, not a takeaway — a copper pot, a tiny cup and an unhurried half hour in a bazaar café.

Sarajevo

Walk the educational trails at Karaotok

A gentle educational visit within the designated visitor infrastructure at Karaotok — not a measured hiking route, with no invented length, duration or accessibility guarantee.

Hutovo Blato Nature Park

Explore the Roman Old Town

Walk the Arena, the forum, the Temple of Augustus and the Roman gates in a single circuit through the old town.

Pula

Ascend St Euphemia’s Campanile

Ascend the 60-metre campanile for the classic panorama over the pastel rooftops, the harbours and the sea.

Rovinj

Beach Day on the Poreč Riviera

The pebble and rocky coves south of the old town — Debeli beach, the Blue Lagoon and the pine-shaded ledges of the Zelena Laguna resort coast.

Poreč

Raft the Cetina Gorge

Raft the rapids of the Cetina through the gorge above Omiš — the most popular river trip in Central Dalmatia.

Omiš

Camping on Korčula: Port9 and the Island Camps

Korčula camps for every style — the resort-grade Port9 within walking distance of the old town, olive-grove hideaways at Vela Luka, and small family camps on the north shore.

Korčula

Cycle the Lakes Circuit

Ride the flat forest trail around the Great Lake — the classic Mljet experience, an hour of shade, water views and swimming stops that suits every level of rider.

Mljet

Bukovac and Bogišić Art Heritage Visit

A combined art and heritage visit pairing Bukovac House, the birthplace and museum of the painter Vlaho Bukovac, with the Rector’s Palace and the Baltazar Bogišić Collection — the artistic and scholarly layers of Cavtat read together.

Cavtat

Račić Mausoleum and Rat Peninsula Walk

A walk from Cavtat’s waterfront up through the Rat Peninsula to St Rocco Cemetery and the Račić Family Mausoleum by Ivan Meštrović, continuing along the wooded coastal path and its viewpoints.

Cavtat

Camping the Konavle Coast: the Molunat Auto Camps

Cavtat itself has no campsite — the region’s camping lives 20 km south in Molunat, a small fishing village at the tip of the Konavle coast, where simple auto camps sit right on the shore.

Cavtat

Raft the Vrbas river canyon

The Vrbas carves a deep limestone gorge through the hills on the edge of Banja Luka, and rafting its rapids — from gentle stretches to grade IV white water — is the city’s signature outdoor experience, run by licensed local operators.

Banja Luka

Ski or learn to ski at Babanovac in winter (December into early spring)

A family-friendly winter ski day at Babanovac on the northern side of Vlašić — lifts, groomed slopes and mountain accommodation close to the Lašva valley.

Vlašić

Walk Perast’s Waterfront, Palaces and Churches

A compact walking route along the Perast waterfront and its upper lanes — Saint Nicholas Square, the Bujović and Smekja palaces, and the exterior church views that tell the town’s story.

Perast

Muslibegović House

A well-preserved late-Ottoman residential complex on the west side of the old town, one of the finest surviving examples of Mostar’s traditional stone-and-wood domestic architecture. Now a house-museum and heritage hotel, it shows how a wealthy Muslim family lived — carved ceilings, separate selamluk and haremluk quarters, and a shaded inner courtyard.

Mostar

Karađoz-beg Mosque

The largest Ottoman mosque in Herzegovina, built in the 1550s by Karađoz-beg, the great benefactor of 16th-century Mostar — a domed mosque with a slender minaret, once the centre of a complex that included a madrasa, a hamam and a clock tower.

Mostar

Tunnel of Hope

The lifeline tunnel of the siege — a moving, essential museum.

Sarajevo

War Childhood Museum

Personal objects and first-person stories of childhood affected by war, opened in Sarajevo in January 2017.

Sarajevo

Jajce Catacombs

A medieval underground church and tomb complex carved into the living rock beneath Jajce, attributed to Duke Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić, the 15th-century lord of the town — one of the most unusual heritage sites in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Jajce

Osman Pasha Mosque

The Osman-pasha Mosque, built in 1726 inside the walls of Kastel, is the endowment of Osman-pasha Resulbegović — a finely cut stone mosque with an octagonal minaret and one of the principal Ottoman monuments of the old town.

Trebinje

Balbi’s Arch and Marshal Tito Square

The 17th-century Venetian gate that replaced the old principal town gate, opening onto the harbour-facing civic square beside the Clock Tower.

Rovinj

Rovinj City Museum and Califfi Palace

The city museum in the Baroque Califfi Palace beside Rovinj’s main square, holding local archaeology, history, ethnography and modern and contemporary art.

Rovinj

Baredine Cave

A living karst cave five kilometres from the old town, with sculptural stalactites, underground pools and a blind cave salamander found nowhere else in the world.

Poreč

The Truffle Forests of the Mirna Valley

The oak and hazel woods below the town are the world capital of the white Istrian truffle — hunted by licensed families and their dogs for generations.

Motovun

Trsat Castle

A medieval fortress on the hill above Rijeka, with a Franciscan shrine beside it and views over the city and the Kvarner Gulf.

Rijeka

Krk Old Town & Walls

A walled Venetian core with a Romanesque cathedral, narrow lanes and the Frankopan family castle above the harbour.

Krk

Omiš Old Town & Mirabella Fortress

A stone old town beneath the Mirabella fortress, which the Omiš pirates used to watch the sea and which gives a panorama over the gorge and the coast.

Omiš

Lumbarda & the sandy east coast

Korčula’s rare sandy corner — the Grk-vineyard village of Lumbarda with the sandy beaches of Bilin Žal and Pržina, six kilometres from the old town.

Korčula

Saplunara Beach

The island’s best sand beach — a shallow, pine-fringed sandy bay on Mljet’s southern coast, an hour’s drive from the park and a world away in atmosphere.

Mljet

Orebić & the Sea-Captain Coast

The sea-captain town at the western tip — villas, the Maritime Museum and the Franciscan monastery on the hill, facing Korčula across the channel.

Pelješac