This is the Bosnia & Hercegovina chapter from Lonely Planet's Eastern Europe guidebook.

This craggily beautiful land retains some lingering scars from the heartbreaking civil war in the 1990s. Today visitors will more likely remember Bosnia and Hercegovina for its deep, unassuming human warmth and the intriguing East-meets-West atmosphere.

• nose about Mostar's atmospheric Old Town seeking ever-new angles from which to photograph young men throwing themselves off the magnificently rebuilt Stari Most
• maps
• potter around the timeless Turkish- and Austrian-era pedestrian lanes of Sarajevo
• transport
• ski the 1984 Olympic pistes at Jahorina or Bjelašnica or explore the wild uplands behind them
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Bosnia, Sarajevo & around, Jahorina, Bjelašnica, Mostar & around, Neum, Stolac, Eastern Bosnia, Hercegovina, Trebinje, Višegrad, Visoko, Travnik, Banja Luka & around, Bihać, Understand Bosnia & Hercegovina, History, the People of Bosnia and Hercegovina, the Arts, Survival Guide, Directory, Getting There & Away, and Getting Around.