If you are planning to travel on a day tour between Sarajevo and Dubrovnik / Split / Kotor via Mostar and Herzegovina, and are interested to do it on the most amazing way possible, avoiding bus/plane or driving yourself, then our Total Herzegovina Tour is the best and most convenient way to do it.
This is a connecting door to door day tour which covers 6 most amazing destinations in Herzegovina including Mostar, Blagaj, Počitelj, Kravice Waterfalls, Konjic and Jablanica. You can start either in Sarajevo and end in Dubrovnik / Kotor / Split or the other way around. Regardless of your start/end destination, we always do the full itinerary.
As mentioned, tour can go from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik or opposite way. This particular itinerary we will focus on direction from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik.
Departure Times Daily at 8 AM.
Pickup Locations This is door to door transfer tour, so we pick you up at your address.
Activity Note: The tour is adapted to all ages and is not physically demanding. Due to the distance of the locations, we use vehicles during the tour.
Meet our team and enjoy the scenic ride through Herzegovina region. Your guide will introduce you to some of the most beautiful places in Herzegovina known for its cultural, historical and natural diversity. Also, he will make sure no questions remain unanswered, even of personal nature, so don’t refrain from sharing your thoughts and opinions at any moment of time.
Morning ride will take us through interesting suburbs of Sarajevo and areas of central Bosnia until we pass Ivan mountain and enter Herzegovina region. As soon as in Herzegovina, we’ll start descending, as region of Herzegovina is generally on lower altitudes and is totally different climate, so you’ll notice dramatic natural environment change.
First stop of the day is short visit to old part of Konjic town. Unique, prehistorically inhabited, famous for 17th century 6-arch Old Bridge, looming over turquoise Neretva river, usually very sunny place, is day’s perfect start. Standing at WW2’s last day, during the Nazi withdrawal, destroyed bridge, we learn the story of the “monument to human stupidity”, mystery of Tito’s Bunker, famousness of white water rafting at upper Neretva region and glacier Boracko Lake, and few other stories before we continue our way.
>Konjic Old Bridge – Crossroad between Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ride continues by passing large, dammed but very beautiful Jablaničko lake, with short stop at Jablanica where we learn WW2 story of “Neretva Battle” and “sniff” into the way how our greatest delicacy, famous roasted lamb on the spit is made.
Views of Jablaničko lake and regions of Prenj mountain are simply breathtaking and will make you wanna stop and breathe those in.
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>Jablanica bridge destroyed during the WW2 famous Neretva battle
Then we continue through some really amazing parts of Neretva river canyon, telling the unique stories of Herzegovina, before we arrive to our second and most important stop of the day – Mostar.
As soon as we arrive to Mostar we’ll start our 2 hour walking tour which will cover most important sites and locations in Mostar.
Our focus will Mostar’s Old Bridge, Old Bazaar and Old Town, but offer stories of Mostar’s uniqueness, in regard to historical and cultural diversity.
Story of Mostar will be about the Bridge, it’s rise and fall, and how it had risen again. You will learn about Siege of Mostar, about why it is called Mostar, about “Mostarians”. We recreate Mostar for you and with you.
In Mostar, if preferred, we give our guests free time to explore on their own as we simply do not like to “hold a candle all the way”.
>Mostar Old Bridge and the old town in Herzegovina
After Počitelj, we keep going, and after short ride arrive to Blagaj.
Blagaj town is home to Buna river spring – Europe’s most beautiful, most powerful, clean and drinkable karst river spring, settled beneath few hundred meters high rock. Water comes out of quite large but stunningly deep cave, which springs amazing 43 cubic meters of water per second. Can you imagine this?
Just next to the spring, under the rock, is home to Blagaj Tekke – Dervish house, dating most likely pre or early Ottoman era from early 16th century, as unique sacral-residential example of Islamic architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Visiting this complex and learning more about Dervish life in Herzegovina as important part of our history is, MUST DO.
For Muslim travellers “Tekija” is place where prayers are hosted 5 times a day and can be attended if wanted.
As we finish visit to “Blagajska Tekija” and “Izvor rijeke Bune” we stay there for bit longer. It is time for lunch. Due to famousness and cleanliness of Buna river the most important thing to taste in Blagaj today is local trout. That is why we don’t leave the place before we offer our guests to try locally prepared trout on “Blagaj Way”, enjoying amazing scenery of Buna river spring and Dervish house next to it. Vegetarians don’t worry, we have solutions for you as well 🙂
Lunch is not included in the price, so plan some 8 to 10 EUR extra for the lunch.
>Blagaj River Spring and Dervish House
As soon as stomach is full and we got deserved rest we continue towards Dubrovnik where our next stop – Počitelj.
Stunningly nested above Neretva river, visit to Počitelj (“Počivati” – Bos.”to rest in peace”), easy uphill, one hour long walking activity, accompanied with a stories of town’s development and strategic importance during its 600+ year long written history and visit to most important sites such as Hajji Alija Mosque, Clock Tower and Gavrankapetanović tower, IS A MUST, for anyone passing through or near Herzegovina region.
Unique, medieval, Ottoman era glorified, present day Ottoman-Mediterranean style “architectured” fortress – town Počitelj, is one of the very few urban ensembles in Bosnia and Herzegovina preserved in their integrity to the present times.
>Pocitelj town overlooking Neretva river – Herzegovina
When Počitelj explorations are done, we are not too far away from Dubrovnik and there is one more stop to go. Get ready for highlight of the day, small Niagara’s, stunning waterfalls of Kravica.
Situated near Ljubuški, Trebižat river with its travertine sedimentations is today offering us unique and breathtaking attraction – Kravica waterfalls. Height range from 26-28 meters and water amphitheater of 120 meters below, plus surrounding nature of Kravica waterfalls altogether fall into unique geological monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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If you are conducting this tour in summer time (between June – September) feel free to bring along swimsuit and join us for some chilling swim, or at least to cool your feet along a good drink.
Kravica falls are usually our last stop on our Sarajevo to Dubrovnik via Mostar and Herzegovina tour. We’ll have another 2 hours of driving before we reach Dubrovnik where we usually arrive around 8 pm, unless you prefer to be there earlier.
>Kravice Waterfalls near Ljubuski in Herzegovina
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Highly recommended tour operator
I did two tours with Funky Tours – Dubrovnik to Sarajevo and Sarajevo to Belgrade.
Both tours were very well planned and organised. Plenty of time at each site. Guides (Enis and Stephen) were very, very welcoming, helpful, kind and knowledgeable.
Office staff are exceptional – replies pretty much instantly to my messages, no matter what time or day it is and tries to accommodate any request.
Highly recommended using this tour operator
Amazing full day tour experience while being transferred.
Our guide Zlatan was exceptional! He knew everything to share with us and answered all our questions. He was a safe driver and very approachable. We loved everything about this tour. Every stop enriched our knowledge of the beautiful country of Bosnia-Herzegovina and some of its many highlights.
We chose to travel from Dubrovnik to Sarajevo and it was a 12 hour very enjoyable tour. From Mostar and walking around the town and over the bridge to the beautiful waterfalls of Kravice and the Blagaj Tekke Dervish House Monastery built right beside a mountain and cave on the beautiful turquoise green Buda River, this tour captured our hearts. Zlatan recommended stopping for a delicious lamb dinner at a well-known restaurant right on the beautiful turquoise green river. The views were stunning.
We highly recommend this tour if you’re travelling from Dubrovnik to Sarajevo or vice versa.
PS. Funky Tours was always quick to answer the many questions we asked leading up to this tour. All details were taken care of, and everything worked out as advertised. Well done FT!
Superb tour company.
Just back from a 10 day trip to the Balkans- did three tours with Funky Tours in that time and they were all superb. We did the Dubrovnik- Sarajevo transfer tour, the War Tunnel and Siege tour in Sarajevo, and then the Sarajevo- Belgrade transit tour. All excellent- and all our guides and drivers were wonderful, I apologise for not remembering names!!
Both transfer tours were literally door to door, and the guides and driver were so helpful!! The transfer tours are a great way to see both popular places- Mostar/Visegrad etc, and some more off the beaten track places too.
It was great having local guides who have lived through recent history, and some younger ones too who talked about all their hopes for the future.
And Edna in the main office was so good with all our communications, booking us in and keeping us updated- really helpful and courteous.
Would recommend this company to anyone, they are truly excellent at what they do.
Our tour-guide, Stephan, was outstanding
Our tour from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik was fantastic; covering not only tourist sites but also places of interest both historically and geographically. Our tour guide, Stephan, was OUTSTANDING; providing not only information on Bosnia and the areas where we were travelling but also fitting in extremely well with the group. I would thoroughly recommend this tour.
Fantastic tour
Would highly recommend if you intend to travel from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik! Stopped in since very interesting locations you would normally bypass and had a fantastic meal on the banks of the Buna. Guides were fantastic!