All of our tours incorporate a variety of the activities listed below. Please check the tour itineraries [link] for a list of specific activities and sights. With such a wide variety of interests, it’s difficult to work in all the activities into our set tours. Those activities listed here which are not part of any set tour can be selected as part of a customized tour.

Nature & Sports

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Kornati islands

• Hiking: Numerous options include easy day hikes to ruined castles in Slovenia’s Karavanke mountains, longer hikes in more isolated forests of Montenegro and Bosnia or hikes on Croatia’s limestone mountains overlooking the Adriatic sea
• Waterfalls: Many half-day hikes to scenic waterfalls in Slovenia and Bosnia
• Water sports: Slovenia’s beautiful turquoise Soca river offers both traditional water sports (Kayaking, river rafting) as well as newer sports like hydrospeed and canyoning
• Aerial sports: Paragliding, hang gliding and glider flights in Slovenia’s Julian Alps and Soca river valley
• Horse Riding: Ride the majestic Lipizzaner horses through beautiful terrain below the Julian Alps
• Sailing: Private boat trip through the isolated and breathtaking Kornati Islands; relax and enjoy the beaches, sheltered coves and fishing villages of Hvar and Brac
• Caves: Visit to the Jules Verne-like world of Slovenia’s Skocjan caves
• Underwater: Scuba dive or snorkel in the clear blue waters of the Adriatic
• Cycling: Bike through the rolling hills and wine cellars of southern Slovenia or through Logar Valley, one of Slovenia’s scenic corridors

Cultural

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Croatian naive art by Ivan Generalic

• Religious art: Visit to Church of the Holy Trinity, a stone-built church with colorful, wall-to-wall frescoes including the famed Dance of the Macabre painting
• Traditional art: Unique and colorful folk art of Slovenian and Croatian naive painters and bee keepers
• Heritage houses: 17th century whirling dervish house in Herzegovina
• Places of worship: Colorful mosques in Sarajevo, cathedrals overlooking the Adriatic and 800 year-old active monasteries in Slovenia
• Local peoples: Spend an afternoon high in the Bosnian mountains at the isolated village of Lukomir, meeting and dining with the locals in their traditional styled houses
• Culture walks: Customized walks in Bosnia include visits to traditional villages, medieval tombstones, mosques and water mills
• UNESCO sites: The historic riverside trading town of Mostar, containing one of Europe’s oldest and most famous Ottoman bridges

Historical

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Walls of Dubrovnik

• Bosnian history: Sarajevo’s underground tunnel system that kept the city alive during the war and the 14th century citadel of Bobovac, where Bosnian kings are buried
• Slovenian history: Slovenia’s museum of contemporary history, following their country from Austro-Hungarian rule to the creation of Yugoslavia to independence in 1991.
• Ottoman history: Travnik, the Ottomans’ seat of power for many years, with it’s ancient fortress and Coloured Mosque
• World War I history: The award-winning WWI museum of Kobarid, center of the mountain fighting captured in Hemmingway’s A Farewell to Arms
• Roman history: Roman Emperor Diocletian’s palace in the coastal town of Split
• Dalmatian history: Experience the magic of Dubrovnik, the Pearl of the Adriatic, with its 75 foot high walls and Europe’s oldest pharmacy
• Castles: Slovenia’s Predjama castle clings to a rocky cliff where a Slovenian Robin Hood made his hideout amongst a series of underground tunnels and caves