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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo is the city where East meets West on a single street: an Ottoman bazaar of copper workshops and coffee houses on one side of the line, Austro-Hungarian boulevards on the other, and beneath it all the story of a siege that shaped the modern city. Two hours south, Mostar's single stone arch over the Neretva is one of the most famous images in the Balkans. This guide books the pair properly, with a small-group old town walk through Baščaršija, the Tunnel of Hope and a half-day siege history tour, a private walk across the Old Bridge, and day trips to Kravice Falls, Počitelj and the Blagaj dervish house, and pairs them with the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque and the Trebević cable car. Then it matches you to a hotel, from Swissôtel's modern luxury and Old Town addresses on Ferhadija and beside the Latin Bridge to a stone-throw-from-the-bridge stay in Mostar and a budget hostel, because in a city built for walking, where you sleep decides how much of it you see.