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The Novel prize winning Bosnian writer Ivo Andrić set a number of his works in Travnik, the former capital of Ottoman Bosnia. Notably The Bosnian Chronicles (I have also seen this book published as The Travnik Chronicles) but my favourite of those I have read is The Vizier’s Elephant. The premise of the story is…
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One of the most important things to know when travelling abroad is what the local currency is and how it works. That’s fairly easy and basic, in Bosnia and Herzegovina the currency is the convertible mark, which uses the symbol ‘KM’ and one mark is divided in to 100 fenings (or pfennigs). Fortunately both entities…
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Visit date: May 2025 By the time I got to Banja Luka city it was getting late and the evening was drawing in. It turned out that I had made a good choice of where to stay. I booked a room at Apartmani Kastel via booking.com which was great value at €47 for two nights.…
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