Bosnia and Herzegovina travel tips
Bosnia and Herzegovina travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Bosnia and Herzegovina, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo, Mostar.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Hepatitis A
- Tetanus up to date
- Tick-borne encephalitis for hiking in the forests in summer
Emergency number
124 for an ambulance, 122 for police, 123 for fire; 112 connects in most places
Care for visitors
Good but costly
Sarajevo has private clinics used to foreigners and a decent public hospital; Mostar is adequate; beyond them it thins. Insurance with evacuation cover is sensible, as anywhere the serious cases go abroad.
Tap water in Sarajevo and Mostar is drinkable. Landmines remain in the countryside from the 1990s: stay on marked paths, never cross tape, and take a guide in the hills. Ticks in the forests from spring.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in Bosnia and Herzegovina
SarajevoBosnia and HerzegovinaWhere the Ottoman bazaar meets the Austro-Hungarian boulevard on one street, a city that hosted an Olympics and survived a siege, and the best coffee ritual in Europe
MostarBosnia and HerzegovinaA stone bridge rebuilt after the war and dived from for money, an Ottoman bazaar either side of it, and the Neretva running green underneath