Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Bradt Travel Guide (Paperback)

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This one-of-a-kind comprehensive guide to Bosnia and Herzegovina covers the natural wonders of the area, history and culture, Sarajevo festivals and nightlife, and practical information for travelers.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina lies at the cultural crossroads of east and west. It was here that Byzantine and Ottoman civilizations meet Roman and Austro-Hungarian ones, molding one of Europe's most diverse nations. Where else would you find Orthodox and Catholic churches, a mosque and a synagogue side by side in the same square?
This comprehensive and practical guidebook – the first in English – leads you to the Mediterranean south and the Alpine north, through fields of fig trees and green mountains. Almost a decade after the war, you'll be pleasantly surprised by a mosaic of landscapes and a warm welcome.
This is the first single-country guide to BiH in English. It covers Sarajevo and the Herzegovina/Mostar region. You will find details on all the national parks, hiking and mountain walks and it includes practical information about red tape, accommodation, food and transport.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides; 1st edition (July 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841620947
• ISBN-13: 978-1841620947
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #930,885 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for an off-the-beaten-track location, December 9, 2007

By	C. Quinn (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide (Paperback)

It is unfortunate that so few guides to BiH exist, but thankfully the Bradt guide is excellent enough to stand on its own. I lived in BiH for two years, and every expat I know had a copy of this book to help organize travel in the region. The historical overview and explanations of important customs are wonderful additions that help give travelers an inside look into Bosnian culture. Given that BiH is still recovering from the war in the 1990s, it can be extremely hard to plan a trip there without some inside knowledge; this guidebook provides that inside advantage to travelers who don't live in BiH or speak the language. An excellent addition to any travel library, this Bradt guide is a must-have for anyone planning to travel to BiH!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Post War BiH tourism?, August 11, 2005

By	Susan (Lindenhurst, IL USA) - See all my reviews

In July '05, I visited BiH and Croatia for the first time and used the Brandt guide to help me traverse BiH. BiH has many amazing cities and sites to visit, but they are difficult to find and not marked. The travel guide was helpful in that it served mostly to inform me of many of the sites. BiH is not very commercial and I found local assistance a necessity, but that was not stated in the book. For instance, I attempted to find some Illyrian ruins highly recommended in the book, needless to say, we got lost and even the locals could not help guide us to the reference found in the book. In Mostar, we went to look at one of the oldest Ottoman houses that was mentioned in the book and the owner was taken by suprise when we began looking at the house. Finally, street signs are difficult to find in some cities and maybe this explains why the maps in the travel guide were at times incomplete.

Overall, this book begins to expose many amazing BiH sites for travel, and as time passes and the wounds of war begin to heal, more tourists will again realized the history that lies in this beautiful country.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Well You Do Not Have Much of a Choice, September 7, 2006

By	Emin Ozgur (Istanbul, Turkey) - See all my reviews

This is the only updated guide on the area so there it might be pointless to comment on it. I'd definitely buy it because the region is quite poor on information anyway. But a lot of time the book is limited and the maps are usually quite useless.

I tried doing to walking tour in Mostar and also looked for some locations mentioned in Sarajevo in vain. Sometimes the author mentions streetnames which are not usually marked, some locations he talks about are impossible to find without asking people.

On the positive side, the author is not some dude with a backpack visiting the country. He lives in BiH and has a lot of first hand information. I wish he would share more of it with us.