Holiday to Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina

Enjoy gentle walks and cultural sightseeing in and around the cities, towns and highland villages of Montenegro and Bosnia Herzegovina.
Dubrovnik Kotor city tour boat ride on Bay of Kotor Cetinje city tour Ostrog Monastery Durmitor National Lake stroll around Zabljak Plateau and the Piva River Sarajevo city tour including tunnel museum gentle walk around village of Lukomir Mostar sightseeing tour Ottoman town of Pocitelj Kravica Waterfalls Blagaj village Tvrdos Orthodox Monastery
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£2179To£2299including UK flights
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Duration
11 Days
Countries
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro
Type
Small group
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From £1799 - £1849 excluding flights.
Optional single supplement £240.
Minimum age 16.
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Late availability on these dates: 13 May, 17 Jun
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Description of Holiday to Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina

Holidays in Bosnia and Montenegro are fast-becoming an absolute must for cultural travellers with an enchanting blend of European and west Asian influences providing a fascinating continental convergence within a melting pot of metropolis and rural communities.

Natural contrasts appear around every bend with holidays in Montenegro providing travellers with some incredibly scenic backdrops including the landscapes of Durmitor National Park and the fertile islands pitted across the Bay of Kotor.

Religious and cultural diversification is also in clear evidence and this eleven day holiday in Montenegro and Bosnia conjures up Ottoman towns and Orthodox monasteries as well as gentle walking trails that lead across both countries and onwards to Croatia's walled city of Dubrovnik.

Surrounding the region's traditional highland villages you’ll discover one outstanding area of natural beauty after the next with hillsides swathed in ancient forests and tumbling waterfalls giving way to jutting peaks and deep canyons where views over the Adriatic are simply sublime.

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£2179To£2299including UK flights
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From £1799 - £1849 excluding flights.
Optional single supplement £240.
Minimum age 16.
Make enquiry

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Small group tours:
Small group travel is not large group travel scaled down. It is modeled on independent travel – but with the advantage of a group leader to take care of the itinerary, accommodation and tickets, and dealing with the language. It’s easy to tick off the big sights independently – but finding those one-off experiences, local festivals, travelling markets and secret viewpoints is almost impossible for someone without the insider knowledge gained from years in the field. Those with a two-week holiday, a small group tour will save valuable planning time.
Diet:
We cater for both vegetarians and vegans.
Citizen science:
A few departures each year include citizen science projects. These special departures offer you the opportunity to be involved in the collection of freshwater samples during the trip. The environmental DNA information derived from this sample will contribute directly to the eBioAtlas; the world's largest repository of flora and fauna species data, contributing to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity both locally and globally. To book onto one of these special departures, please ask for more information.

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Reviewed on 25 Jul 2019 by

The most memorable part of the holiday was the scenery and learning about the history of Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina Read full review

Reviewed on 21 Aug 2018 by

The whole holiday was enjoyable. Read full review

Reviewed on 02 Jun 2018 by

The holiday was exciting and the scenery in both countries is breath taking. Read full review

Reviewed on 04 Sep 2017 by

The stunning scenery and trips to isolated villages. Excellent. I enjoyed every minute. Terrific leader and very nice companions. Read full review

Responsible Travel

As the pioneers of responsible tourism, we've screened this (and every) holiday so that you can travel knowing it will help support the places and people that you visit, and the planet. Read how below.

Planet

UK Office:
It all starts at home so we have first worked at reducing our carbon footprint in our UK Offices. Through energy conservation measures and recycling policies, we are proud to be actively reducing the waste produced and our impact on the environment. We support various projects all over the world to try and give something back to the places we visit.

Group Size:
This small group tour has a maximum of 16 participants, meaning that we have a low impact on the environments and communities we visit and are able to ensure that we do not disrupt or lead to the displacement of local people. The small number also allows us to stay in unique, family-run hotels that cannot benefit from coach tours and other mass tourism due to their limited sizes.

People

Local Craft and Culture:
This tour is packed with culture: we visit the walls of Kotor and its many churches and palaces, the galleries and museums in Cetinje and Saravejo’s Old Town and Tunnel Musuem. However, the best way to culturally explore the three countries in this trip is to engage with local people. We arrange to have lunch with a local family in two small, mountain highland villages (one in Montenegro and one in Bosnia) where we can enjoy some authentic food and see that our presence benefits this remote economy. After this there is the chance to buy traditional handicrafts, like woollen gloves and sweaters or carven wooden relics, directly from the villagers.

Community:
This trip designed to allow a high degree of economic benefit to the local communities; we buy local produce, eat local food and use local services, thus ensuring that as much money as possible is retained within the local economies and the host communities. By visiting a large number of cultural and natural sites and paying entrance fees, we are contributing towards maintaining, restoring and protecting these valuable monuments and facilities. Stops include Kotor's 4.5km long fortification walls and its many churches and palaces, Ostrog Monastery, Durmitor National Park, Saravejo’s Old Town and the Tunnel Museum, Tvrdos Orthodox Monastery and the walls of Dubrovnik.

Accommodation and Meals:
We will spend 10 nights in small hotels and pensions. All accommodation is locally owned and staffed, which provides employment and income alternatives for many locals. Where meals are provided, locally sourced, traditionally used ingredients like yoghurt, meat (pork, lamb and veal) and seasonal vegetables will be provided. Guides will be able to recommend authentic restaurants to visit for dinner and these will often be family run. In Kotor, guests can visit a fresh fish market and in Saravejo there is a popular market called Markale, where guests can buy local produce.

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