Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or Bosnia
& Herzegovina, is a country in Southeastern
Europe located on the Balkan
Peninsula. Sarajevo is the capital and largest city. In the central and
eastern interior of the country the geography is mountainous, in the northwest
it is moderately hilly, and the northeast is predominantly flatland. The inland
is a geographically larger region and has a moderate continental climate, with hot summers
and cold and snowy winters. The
southern tip of the country
has a Mediterranean climate and plain topography.
What to do in Bosnia
Tunnel Museum
The most visceral
of Sarajevo's many 1990s war-experience 'attractions', this unmissable museum's
centerpiece and raison d'être is a short section of the 1m wide, 1.6m high
hand-dug tunnel under the airport runway which acted as the city's lifeline to
the outside world during the 1992–95 siege, when Sarajevo was virtually
surrounded by Serb forces.
Vratnik
Built in the 1720s
and reinforced in 1816, Vratnik Citadel once enclosed a whole area of the upper
city. Patchy remnants of wall fragments, military ruins and gatehouses remain.
The urban area is appealingly unnourished with many small mosques and
tile-roofed houses, and there are several superb viewpoints. Start a visit with
a 3KM taxi hop up to the graffiti-daubed Bijela Tabija fortress ruin-viewpoint
(or take buses 52 or 55 to Višegradski Kapija gatehouse) then walk back.
Pyramid of the Sun
Is Visoko's 250m-high
Visočica Hill in fact the World's Greatest Pyramid? That's the intriguing if
widely discredited theory of Semir Osmanagic, an American-Bosnian Indiana
Jones–style researcher who claims it was built approximately 12,000 years ago
by a long-disappeared super culture.
Tekija
Blagaj's signature
attraction is this pretty half-timbered Dervish House standing beside the
surreally blue-green Buna River where it gushes out of a cliff-cave. Upstairs
the Tekija's wobbly wooden interior has some attractive woodwork and a fine
ceiling in the Firdevs room.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
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