Bosnia, mostly arrived at from the coast.

Where we collect

Sarajevo is the main airport, with Mostar and Tuzla handling seasonal traffic. But the practical gateways for most visitors are Dubrovnik and Split in Croatia, both of which put Mostar within a comfortable day.

We collect at all of them, and at the Sarajevo and Mostar hotels. A Bosnian booking very often appears on the invoice as a Croatian one, because that is where it begins and ends.

The routes we run most

• Dubrovnik to Mostar and back as a full day, the flagship trip
• Split to Mostar, often with Počitelj and Kravice Falls on the way
• Sarajevo airport to the city and Baščaršija
• Sarajevo to Mostar, about two and a half hours through the Neretva canyon
• Sarajevo to Jahorina and Bjelašnica for the ski season
• Sarajevo to Belgrade, Zagreb or Dubrovnik as a road leg

The border, and why it is the whole job

Bosnia and Herzegovina is not in the EU or Schengen. Coming from Croatia means a genuine frontier with passport checks on both sides, and a commercial vehicle needs the right paperwork to cross: the operating documentation, and green card insurance valid for Bosnia. A lot of coastal operators quietly do not have it. We do, and it is worth asking anyone else before you book, because the place to discover a gap is not the queue at Metković.

In summer, the border is the timing risk, not the driving. A Dubrovnik to Mostar day is about three hours each way when the crossing is clear and appreciably longer in August when it is not. We plan an early start for that reason, which also happens to put you in Mostar before the coach parties arrive.

Mostar itself is walkable and the bridge is the point. The Stari Most was destroyed in 1993 and rebuilt in 2004 using the original technique and stone from the same quarry. It is a short walk from where any vehicle can reasonably stop, and the old bazaar either side of it is the rest of the visit.