Bosnia and Herzegovina Entry Requirements

Slip across the frontier into Bosnia and Herzegovina and you walk straight into a living museum: Ottoman minarets spike the sky above Sarajevo's red-tiled roofs while the smell of fresh ćevapi rises from charcoal grills along the Miljacka River. Midnight-blue uniforms stamp passports beneath flecked marble arches at Sarajevo International Airport. Suitcase wheels rumble over polished floors like distant thunder rolling off the Dinaric Alps. Most travellers need only a valid passport, no visa theatre. Yet the air still carries a faint metallic tang of photocopied paper and anticipation, the same scent that drifts through Mostar's stone alleys when the call to prayer glides above the Neretva's green water. Immigration is brisk: a document scan, a couple of routine questions, the satisfying thud of a black double-headed-eagle stamp. Arrival cards appear on the plane or at land huts. Queues rarely top ten minutes even in high summer. Remember, Bosnia and Herzegovina sets its own visa rules, separate from the EU; euros help. But the convertible mark (BAM) is king for the tiny departure tax folded into many tickets.