5 Blogs Worth Reading on Sarajevo ©
5 Blogs Worth Reading on Sarajevo

5 Blogs Worth Reading on Sarajevo

A street-art specialist, an urban explorer and a writer who keeps going back — five people who write about Sarajevo as a city rather than a siege

Most writing about Sarajevo is really writing about the 1990s. The war matters and none of these blogs pretend otherwise, but they also tell you where to drink coffee for an hour without anyone hurrying you, which murals are worth walking to, how to get up to the abandoned bobsled track, and why the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian halves of the old town meet at a line drawn on the pavement.

They range from the encyclopedic to the deeply personal. Take the practical ones for your ferry and bus times, and the personal ones for the reason to go in the first place.

Further Reading

5 Blogs Worth Reading on Sarajevo

  1. 01 Alternative Things to Do in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina kathmanduandbeyond.com Independent travel on public transport and a budget, with a taste for the unusual and off-the-beaten-path corners of Sarajevo most itineraries skip.
  2. 02 Sarajevo Travel Guide: An Unusual City You're Sure To Love indietraveller.co · Marek Bron Writes the kind of city guide that tells you what a place is actually like to be in — a good, unsentimental primer for a city people arrive at carrying a lot of assumptions.
  3. 03 BLocal blocal-travel.com · Giulia Cimarosti A street-art blog first and a travel blog second, running since 2011. If you want to read Sarajevo through its murals and graffiti, this is the one.
  4. 04 Oh So Beautiful, Sarajevo heartmybackpack.com · Silvia Lawrence Long, personal posts instead of listicles. She keeps returning to the Balkans, and it shows in how she writes about Bosnia.
  5. 05 Urbex in Bosnia: The Sarajevo Bobsled Track, the Mostar Sniper Tower & More eternalarrival.com · Allison Green Strong on the practical questions solo travellers actually have, plus a good eye for Bosnia's less-visited towns beyond Sarajevo and Mostar.

These are other people’s blogs, out on the open web. We don’t run them and we don’t earn anything from the links — they’re here because they are good.