When thinking of
Bosnia & Herzegovina, it is difficult not to focus on the Yugoslav wars that blighted the Balkan region for much of the 1990s. At a loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, huge landmass was shredded into civil combat. Much of Bosnia & Herzegovina’s landscape is still riddled with mines, and ramshackle buildings loll across its towns and villages. However, the country remains beautiful, and its winding aqua rivers have lost none of their lustre.
Although economic stagnation and international isolation is yet to be overcome, there is positive history
in abundance, from
stunning old mosques to
amphitheaters and
Catholic shrines. Countryside varies from woodland to
mountains to rolling hills. Perhaps most wonderful is the
rebuilt bridge in Mostar - what used to be a pre-war ancient overpass. Now re-opened to the public, it is hard not to walk across it and hope it symbolic of new beginnings.
GeographyRoughly triangular in shape, and the geopolitical center of the former Yugoslav Federation, Bosnia & Herzegovina shares borders with Serbia and Montenegro in the east and southeast, and Croatia to the north and west, with a short Adriatic coastline of 20km (12 miles) in the southeast, but no ports.
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