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Balkan Discovery Trip. Day 3: Travnik, Bosnia & Herzegovina

The adventure still continues in Bosnia and Herzegovina, visiting a small town called Jajce, 150 km from Bihac. En route, we made a stopped after about an hour journey at Štrbački Buk (Serbian Cyrillic) offering stunning view of natural landscape. The attraction located within the Una National Park.

A stunning views of tiered waterfall in Bosnia and Herzegovina that is well worth a visit. The water is extremely blue and transparent, and the sound of the falls is captivating. We arrived early in the morning, so the nearby restaurants and stalls were yet to open. 

The tiered waterfall of Štrbački Buk was somewhat close to the Rastoke in Croatia, however we mesmerized the blue and clear water and the sound from the falls much closer as the deck situated along the river bank. After spending more than an hour, we heading out the park and brief stopped at another view of Una river and took nice photo. Offering views much like a lake. Let's roll the pictures!

View from the hotel room in the morning


Entrance to Una National Park




Clear flowing water


Seeing is believing

Small streams underneath the platform





I read that this stream was among the top water rafting activities



It's healing time



Sweet & sour taste

Stopped for a while at one of the Una river bank for yet another breathtaking lake-view. Now it seems more greener because of many aqua plants. Before leaving the National park, we bought bottles of natural honey at Becir Hajrlahovic.

Yet another spot for healing


Panoramic view of calm water

lots of aqua plants underneath

We bought two bottles of honey


honey and 'honey'

Promoting their products beside the road

Mahal Asli?

A peaceful residential area

Entrance to the park passing through small residential area

Lunch at Hotel Plivsko Jezero


Just had this view on the bus as the winding road doesn't have parking space

Later in the afternoon, we stopped at Pliva waterfall. Another amazing watery views located in the middle of fortress town of Jajce. To gets up close and personal with the falls, there was a small entrance fee. We took pictures at the provided deck, close enough even we had to speak louder to beat the roar of the waterfall.


Rainbow captured!




Then, we continued heading to Travnik in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, 90 kilometers west of Sarajevo and stopped at Travnik Castle it’s also known Travnička Tvrđava. When we arrived at 6pm, the castle was about to close, so we barely had less than 30 minutes to explore the site. The fortress is one of the most beautiful and most preserved facilities of medieval Bosnia. Historian believed was built in the second half of the 14th or the first half of the 15th century. I've taken many pictures in this vast castle within a short period. Bear with me...



























To end the day, we had dinner at Turkuaz

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