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Sarajevo War Tour: A Veteran's Story of the Siege (fees included)
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Sarajevo
Important Information
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Specialized infant seats are available
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Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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A low amount of walking is involved
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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PEACE OF MIND: Our products always include admissions/entrance fees to museums and attractions essential for unrivalled tour experiences.
During this tour, Sarajevo War Tunnel entrance fee (5 EUR Adults / 2.5 EUR children / students) is included in the tour price. You don't have to bother carrying local cash money at all.
As an added bonus, we provide a licensed English-speaking guide who is a local war veteran, ensuring a deeply immersive experience with captivating firsthand storytelling.
With a visit to the War Tunnel Museum, Jewish Cemetery, Olympic mountain of Trebević (with its most famous symbol – Olympic Bobsled track), and other locations crucial for better understanding of mode...
Highlights
4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Sarajevo War Veteran English speaking guide
Air-conditioned vehicle
All Fees and Taxes
PEACE OF MIND: Our products always include admissions fees to essential museums/attractions we visit
War Tunnel Entrance Fee (10.5 EUR per adult / 2.5 EUR children & students) included
Address pick-up and drop-off
Food and drinks
Meeting Points
Departure
Funky Tours
Return
Itinerary
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Funky Tours
Meet our team at the office or your preferred pickup location.
Your guide is Sarajevo Siege survivor, who will introduce your to the story of Breakup of Yugoslavia and Siege of Sarajevo, and 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.
5 minutes
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Pijaca Markale
We will pass by Markale Markets (largest massacre site in Sarajevo during the 1992-1995)
3
Sarajevo Memorial for Children Killed during Siege
We will pass by memorial dedicated to 1601 children murdered in Sarajevo during the 1992-1995.
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Sniper Alley
Regions of Marijin Dvor and ex hotel Holiday Inn (now hotel Holiday) are famous under the name of Sniper Alley, which was the most dangerous part of Sarajevo.
First stop of the day is Hotel Holiday. Built for the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics, during the Siege it used to be a home to various foreign journalists and reporters who were reporting on Bosnian war and Siege of Sarajevo.
15 minutes
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Sarajevo War Tunnel
Next stop of the day will be War Tunnel Museum – Tunnel of Hope, which was the major “blood vessel” for heavily sieged and destroyed city. At the Tunnel we shall see a short movie about the War in Sarajevo and Tunnel, followed by going through the Tunnel itself.
At the exhibition part of the museum we will have the opportunity to see many interesting exhibits directly connected with the Siege of Sarajevo.
The trip to the tunnel and all the way in the tunnel is covered with a true first person experience of classy guide, survivor of the Siege of Sarajevo, who is always willing to answer question (no matter what they are). We will learn about the origins of the War on Balkans and Death of Yugoslavia, the dreams Serbian leaders have had, and how they succeeded to seduce large number of Serbian nationalists throughout the whole Balkans, and made them go to war.
1 hour and 30 minutes
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Trebevic Mountain
After the Tunnel we head towards the mountain Trebević which, by vast majority of its length, was a first line during the Siege and place of many battles on many battlefields.
At the site we will have the opportunity to see where the real destruction appeared, such as Zlatište, Osmice, Trebević Vidikovac and many other destroyed facilities and sites.
Moreover, we will see the remains of bunkers, minefields, military tank caterpillar traces, tranches, bullets and grenade shrapnels and many many other interesting sites of destruction, which today, at the present time, haven’t yet being repaired or restored. They just stand there like two decades later, the war haven’t even ended yet.
30 minutes
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Trebević Vidikovac
One of the most beautiful viewpoints above Sarajevo. During the Siege of Sarajevo, position of Army of Republic of Srpska.
Here you will get the real feeling what the great mice and cats game had been played, and how the Republic of Srpska forces (VRS) with such a great advantage never got the real chance to take over Sarajevo city.
20 minutes
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Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Sarajevo Bobsleigh, originally built for the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics, is one of the main highlights of the tour. Once there, we can admire Yugoslavian brutalist architecture, and learn more about the unfortunate events which took place at this location during the Siege of Sarajevo, since it used to stand on one of the main front lines.
However, Bobsled is today featured at the top of the Worlds most beautiful abandoned places lists. It holds amazing amount of various graffiti by artists from all around the World, and you have a chance to see them all.
20 minutes
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Jewish Cemetery Sarajevo
Upon return to the city last stop of the day will be Jewish Cemetery, known for its historical importance as it is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe, but during the Siege of Sarajevo was the main front line and sniper nest of the Republic of Srpska army.
15 minutes
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Sarajevo
After the tour, we will drop you off at your desired location in Sarajevo.
Sarajevo War Tour: A Veteran's Story of the Siege (fees included)
(341) Reviews
Sarajevo
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PEACE OF MIND: Our products always include admissions/entrance fees to museums and attractions essential for unrivalled tour experiences.
During this tour, Sarajevo War Tunnel entrance fee (5 EUR Adults / 2.5 EUR children / students) is included in the tour price. You don't have to bother carrying local cash money at all.
As an added bonus, we provide a licensed English-speaking guide who is a local war veteran, ensuring a deeply immersive experience with captivating firsthand storytelling.
With a visit to the War Tunnel Museum, Jewish Cemetery, Olympic mountain of Trebević (with its most famous symbol – Olympic Bobsled track), and other locations crucial for better understanding of mode...
Highlights
4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
4 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Sarajevo War Veteran English speaking guide
Air-conditioned vehicle
All Fees and Taxes
PEACE OF MIND: Our products always include admissions fees to essential museums/attractions we visit
War Tunnel Entrance Fee (10.5 EUR per adult / 2.5 EUR children & students) included