The guide was a veteran from the war and so his insight was personal. I learned a lot about
co-existence of different ethnic and religious groups can work towards peaceful respect for
each other.
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04/23/2024
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Bob S
Adnan, our tour guide was outstanding partly because of his lived experience, having begun fighting in the conflict when he was just nineteen, and partly because he was able to bring insights based on his life journey since the war. Adnan came across as a very knowledgeable, insightful, and thoroughly decent human being, which made the telling of history and the variety of sites visited very meaningful to our family group of 6 comprising 3 generations. Adnan was inclusive in his approach with all of us and the one other person in this small tour group. We chose a 9am start, and the tour lasted just over 4 hours
Haris our tour guide was extremely knowledgeable and thorough in his explanations. He was able to answer every question we had.
Haris gave us the full tour of Sarajevo where he drove us around to each location. Between stops he gave us information about the city and further explained the rich history of the Bosnian people and the city of Sarajevo. There are definitely things that you would not find out if you did the tunnel tour yourself.
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04/23/2024
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SamSleeman2001
Mustafa gave us a really interesting tour. He was very open and friendly, telling us stories from his childhood and life in Bosnia, which is insight you rarely get from a museum. He was kind, and took everyone on the tour back to their accommodation by request. Overall, we’d definitely reccomended this tour to anyone interested in the history of Bosnia and Sarajevo from a local perspective.
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04/23/2024
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David_S
This tour focused on the 1992 war in Bosnia, it was a strange and terrible war that occurred after Tito died and Yugoslavia came apart. In a sense it was a civil war with the Serbs in Bosnia pitted against the Bosnians and the Croats, religious differences may have played a role as Sarajevo is majority Muslim and it was also clear that the the rest of the world wanted to contain the war but either did not have the will or the ability to stop it. Sarajevo was surrounded and besieged for over three years. The UN held the airport but only allowed humanitarian aid to the Bosnians in Sarajevo, they also prevented the Serbian forces from using aircraft and from using heavy artillery but Sarajevo was surrounded by mountains which allowed the Serbian forces to shell the city. The people of Sarajevo dug a 1000 meter tunnel under the airport to link the city to the small part of the surrounding countryside that they controlled. The used it to bring weapons, supplies and people in to the city. The pictures show one of the vantage points that the Serbs used to shell the city and also a grave stone in the Jewish cemetery with bullet holes. The tour was both informative and emotional for me.
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