Sarajevo to/from Zagreb (Ljubljana) Full Day Transfer Tour (via Central and North Bosnia)

We will pick you up at your hotel right after breakfast and start with an exciting ride through Sarajevo suburbia and the region of Central Bosnia.  Our guide will introduce you to cultural and historical diversity, and he will make sure no questions remain unanswered, even of a personal nature, so don’t refrain from sharing your thoughts and opinions at any moment.

The drive will take us along the flows of clear rivers Bosna and Lašva that will navigate us to Travnik, the Ottoman viziers’ town and the birthplace of BiH Nobel-winning author Ivo Andric. We will visit the beautiful Travnik fortress, one of our country’s most beautiful and best-preserved medieval fortified buildings, and enjoy the breathtaking scenery.

After finishing at Visoko, we are moving on. We will pass some breathtaking regions of river Bosna and the canyon of river Lašva before we reach Travnik.

Ottoman time vizier’s town, later Nobel prize winner birthplace with stunning Plava Voda spring, Coloured mosque, and old Ottoman fortress are places worth stopping by.

Travnik is also famous for tasty Ćevapi or Travnik white cheese, so why not make this stop enjoyable and tastily interesting?

A break at Plava Voda with some good Bosnian coffee is also necessary.

As soon as we finished in Travnik, we continued, and after another hour of driving through unique regions of the Vrbas River, we arrived at Jajce.

Once there, the first thing we go and see is one of the World’s most beautiful waterfalls, and the only one in the World placed in the city center, the famous Pliva Waterfalls – the spot where Pliva river ends its flow and meets Vrbas is simply breathtaking.

After we bless our eyes and soul, we are ready for a walking tour through Jajce. We will visit Jajce Citadel (Fortress), the Museum of the Second Session of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), Medvjed Kula, the Tower of St. Luke, famous Catacombs – underground church, one of the World’s very few mosques named after a woman – Mosque of Esma Sultanija, and much more. All followed with exciting stories.

Jajce Citadel is an exciting place, allowing us to see the whole area around us and Jajce itself.

After ” tasting” Jajce for roughly 2.30 hours, we go for the Lakes. In the vicinity of Jajce on Pliva River, there are two lakes. We’ll check out large and small Pliva lakes only five kilometers away.

The exciting part of the Pliva Lakes story are Mills at small Pliva Lake. Amongst people, they are famously called “Mlinčići,” once the primary promotional material for postcards and the tourist potential of the Great Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy. We will make a stop there, too.

After Jajce and surroundings, it is time to head towards Zagreb or Ljubljana. Still, we are not saying goodbye to Bosnia without visiting the second-largest city in the country – Banja Luka.

Until we reach Banjaluka, we will admire the fantastic beauty of Vrbas River Canyon, and once in Banjaluka, we will do a city walking tour. We will visit the glorious Ferhadija Mosque and Kastel, among other interesting spots in Banjaluka.

The city’s structure, split in two by the mighty river Vrbas, is just a perfect reflection of fascinating BiH diversity, complex history, and unbelievably beautiful nature that make the essence of a truly unique country.

As a last shortstop, which could be a highlight of today’s quite emotional trip, we are taking you to the notorious WWII extermination camp, Jasenovac.

Often referred to as The Auschwitz of the Balkans, the Jasenovac extermination camp was one of the largest concentration camps in Europe, which continued to operate even later in the SFR Yugoslavia.

It was a place of detention, forced labor, and murder of an enormous number of Serbs, Jews, and Croats who rebelled against the Ustaše regime. We will check out the camp from the outside (visits to the center, possible on request and with a customized itinerary) and remind ourselves how racial and national exclusivity policies can be devastating.

Please Note:

Jasenovac Memorial Centre Museum’s working hours are from 9 AM to 5 PM (March to November) and 10 AM to 4 PM (December to March), meaning that a visit to the Museum alone is not possible on the direction of the tour from Sarajevo to Zagreb, as arrival to Jasenovac Memorial Centre would be after 5 PM. Still, a publicly open part of the center is available for a visit.