Dubrovnik to Mostar

Taking a day trip from Dubrovnik to Mostar is a great way of getting a snippet of what Bosnia and Herzegovina has to offer.

We booked a day trip through Trip Advisor, it cost around £35 per person.

Here is a link to the tour we took: https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/AttractionProductReview-g295371-d14084193-Kravice_Waterfalls_Mostar_and_Pocitelj_Day_Tour_from_Dubrovnik-Dubrovnik_Dubrovnik.html

We met the coach just outside the Pile gates to Dubrovniks old town at around 7/7:15am ready for our day trip to Mostar. 

The drive to the border crossing is around 2 hours and the tour guide and driver take care of the border crossing and giving the passports etc. The border crossing took around 60 minutes and was a very easy process. You just sit on the bus and wait for all the passports to be checked etc. There is a toilet if needed. 

After the border crossing we carried on driving and our first stop was Počitelj. Počitelj is a small village in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We stopped here for around one hour. The main things to visit are the mosque and the fortress. 

You have time to visit the mosque and to walk up the steep steps to the top of the fortress, which gives you views on the mosque and mineret, the river and the surrounding forest. There are some souvenir shops here and a restaurant that you can try Turkish coffee at. We just stopped for a drink and then hopped back onto the coach. 

After this point you can either decide to visit Kravica waterfalls or to visit Medugorje. The coach will drop people off at Medugorie first and everyone else stays on for Kravica waterfalls. If you visit Medugorie, don’t worry, you are collected about 90 minutes later after the Kravica waterfalls visit. The waterfall is situated below the car park so you’re able to get beautiful ariel views of the falls and of the mountains in the background.

The waterfalls were our choice to visit and they did not disappoint. You are able to swim in the bottom of the falls, although you may want to do this in the summer when the water warms up. The water was freezing in mid-April! There is also a small cafe to grab a quick drink or small bite to eat before jumping back on the coach. After Kravica waterfalls we collected everyone that got off at Medugorie and headed to Mostar. 

Mostar is the fifth largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is situated on the Neretva River. We were dropped off in a car park next to the Mostar Peace Tower and given around 2 hours to explore and have some lunch. We walked from the car park into the main area through all the souvenir shops and found somewhere for lunch. We decided to eat at Food House Mostar which had some really tasty food. We ordered the Zeljanica Pie to start with, which is spinach and cheese in a flaky pastry, this was delicious! We decided to share some mains as the portion sizes were quite large. We shared the vegetarian platter and the Imam Bayildi, which is aubergine stuffed with chicken and vegetables. This came to just under £50, which included drinks and a tip. 

We then went for a walk through the cobbled streets and over Mostar Old Bridge, but be careful the cobbles are very slippery when walking over the bridge. We wanted to visit Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque where you can climb to the top of the minaret for the famous view of Mostar Old Bridge. It cost €7 per person to go into the mosque and up the minaret, you get great views of the bridge and parts of Mostar.

You can also visit the beach below the bridge for a different type of view, where you can dip your feet in the water. Access to this beach is free. If you’re lucky, you can see men diving from the top of the bridge into the water below but they won’t jump until they’ve been paid!

After our two hours exploring Mostar, we walked back to the car park where the coach dropped us off and headed back the border crossing to re-enter Croatia. The border crossing took slighty longer on the way out of Bosnia and Herzegovina, around 90 minutes. We were back at Pile gate in Dubrovnik at around 8-8:30pm.

I really enjoyed our day trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina and would love to spend more time exploring other parts of the country another time. I think one or two nights would be a good amount of time to spend in Mostar to visit the museums and to learn more about the history of the city.