Vrbas and Pliva Ride — Banja Luka to Travnik via Jajce

The Vrbas and Pliva Ride links three of the most storied towns of the old Bosnian core. It leaves Banja Luka on the Banja Luka-Jajce road, following the Vrbas through its short canyon reach with rafting camps and monastery stop options, then reaches Jajce, where the Pliva lakes end in the famous waterfall right under the town walls and the medieval fortress watches the Vrbas-Pliva confluence. From Jajce the road climbs away from the rivers through the mid-Bosnian highlands to Travnik, the old vizier town with its coloured mosques and fortress ridge. This is mixed touring riding — canyons, lakes and a highland plateau — with traffic thickest around the towns. Fuel and services are straightforward in all three towns; check BIHAMK road reports in winter.