Sarajevo to Mostar to Dubrovnik: Train and Bus Travel

Beautiful scenery as I travel in Bosnia & Herzegovina from Sarajevo to Mostar by train, then onto Dubvronik (Croatia) by bus. See what you can expect on these two forms of transportation.
This was the end of my ten day solo road trip adventure of Bosnia & Herzegovina. See all the my travel vlog videos here: • Bosnia & Herzegovina 2019

[@52perfectdays10]

I love traveling by train. Love the hunt for coffee! Views from the bus were gorgeous. Loved the coast shots.

[@XennialTraveller]

Thanks!! Hope you get to see that part of the world sometime - it really is beautiful 😃

[@AnaGastarova]

Was a great watch, looking forward to future travel vlogs!

[@ammardzinic5609]

Great video man i am from Bosnia&Herzegovina from Sarajevo great video realy

[@XennialTraveller]

Thank you! Hope everything is going well in B&H.

[@lenjinovo]

I am local, I am from Mostar. I think you missed out on all the views, as you don't feature a single lake view or the breathtaking Neretva canyon. I take this train ride regularly and the views you featured in your video are about 40 min outside of Sarajevo- which is just an area with some mountains and small villages, and you also feature 10 min before entering Mostar... so you missed out on all the views which are around Konjic and Jablanica.

[@XennialTraveller]

Thanks Adela. There were some good views, but admittedly some of those I didn't get good footage of, and there were a lot of parts of the canyon which are nice to look at, but because of the trees and bushes along the train tracks didn't make for great video footage. Still a really nice train ride that I would do again :) I stand by my view that I preferred driving around that area vs the train but certainly if you are going between the two then the train is a great option.

[@papi8659]

Its shocking - he missed all the main bits. dreadful .....blind leading the blind

[@adhirizkyputra]

Well, the train looking good and pretty comfortable

[@thewanderingmeghan4818]

Some great tips in here for when I make it to Bosnia and Croatia! Fun vlog. ☺️

[@XennialTraveller]

Thank you. Are you planning on heading there anytime soon? Croatia is open for tourism again 😃

[@thewanderingmeghan4818]

@@XennialTraveller yes, probably early next year, hopefully. ☺️

[@RailfanR]

Very nice video and good luck! Best regards from Romania! I subscribed!

[@XennialTraveller]

Thank you! You too...

[@BeingBedingfield]

Hi, saw your comment on the Facebook Travel Vloggers group and came to check out your channel. Saw you had 499 subs, and we got to be the 500th one 😁 looking forward to checking out your videos!

[@XennialTraveller]

Awww, thank you!! Let me know what you think 😃

[@Matspalats]

Great!!!!! Im planning a 1 month backpacking through bosnia this spring by bus and train 😁

[@XennialTraveller]

Wo nice!!! Enjoy. I had a rental car for most of it, but you have a bit more time to get around by public transport. Definitely check out the national parks

[@TravelingWellForLess]

Super tip about seating on the train. No Wi-Fi or coffee? How is someone supposed to work? :) That’s a really long bus ride but at least it was scenic. Great tip about what side to sit on.

[@XennialTraveller]

I guess sometimes it's best to not work, and enjoy the scenery. But no coffee was somewhat of a shock to the system... especially when I woke up at 5:30 am, after about 4 hours sleep 😵

[@Gabrielm624]

its Bosnia mate, no one has a job anyway :-(

[@escapefromthedesk]

Nice video! I enjoyed watching the video since I've always wanted to travel by train. 😊 I like how you can see green fields and beach on same trip.

[@XennialTraveller]

Agreed - I really like journeys when you can really see the landscape changing as you go. How do you normally travel?

[@escapefromthedesk]

@@XennialTraveller I normally travel either with plane or car cause faster or more convenient. One of these days, I will try to use train.😊

[@XennialTraveller]

@@escapefromthedesk Some places the train is part of the experience. Especially in Myanmar - the trains were so fascinating

[@OneShotAdventures]

Good thinking on getting views on the scenic side, nice touch that the chairs turn around as well! The train looks really nice, much better than some trains I've taken around Europe. No coffee is a baaaaad situation though... The views from the bus actually look better than the train! Thanks for taking us on the journey Matt!

[@XennialTraveller]

Thanks for coming on the journey Ryan! And the rotating chairs is genius. All trains should have it! The trains are actually from Spain, which I also remember being pretty nice. Are you off anywhere this summer?

[@OneShotAdventures]

@@XennialTraveller Doesn't look like it... I had flights booked to Ireland, but they still have a 14 days quarantine on arrival, so doesn't seem worth it for a 4 day trip haha. How about you?

[@XennialTraveller]

@@OneShotAdventures Haha - well, definitely not if you're gonna spend your entire time in quarantine!! I'm heading to the UK next week. I originally planned to go to Malta in the first part of the trip and then finish in the UK with friends. But since they now got removed from quarantine exemption, I've cancelled Malta. Since the situation changes so rapidly, I'm going to do a last minute decision when I'm back in the UK. Could be that if I think the risk is manageable I go somewhere that is not UK quarantine exempt, but fly back in the UK just to transit for my flight back to Hong Kong (where I will have to do a 2 week quarantine regardless).

[@davorlekenik9563]

Excellent video ... congratulations

[@VeganVoyagers]

Wow that train ride had Gorgeous views! That's so interesting that Bosnia & Herzegovina has that tiny little portion of coastline that splits Croatia up, didn't know that!

[@XennialTraveller]

There are so many random, quirky, interesting things about Bosnia & Herzegovina. I really have a lot of time for them. The reason for it (which I only found out later) is that Dubrovnik was previously its own city-state before being part of Croatia. Apparently they're building a bridge to connect the two parts. More info here: www.thelostgeographer.org/articles/croatia-split-two/

[@VeganVoyagers]

@@XennialTraveller Super interesting! Thanks for sharing

[@davorlekenik9563]

From July 2022 bypassing by Pelješac bridge !!!

[@GoYvon]

For a second I thought you were eating pumpkin ice cream as it kinda had the shape of a popsicle. The water at 7:20 is so clear, I could see the shadow of the boat in it! Too bad it took much longer than planned, but luckily the ride was nice!

[@XennialTraveller]

Pumpkin ice cream would have been great on that bus! The ride was indeed nice, and I also think that sometimes we need to not always be obsessed with always just getting from A to B, and be comfortable just doing nothing (it's a lesson I have to learn myself!). Thanks for watching :D

[@palestinewarrior7762]

Amazing video bro try more balkan countrys if ur able to love the vids il be cheking out this channel more often

[@XennialTraveller]

Thank you. Hopefully we can travel more in the near future

[@SorgiStories]

Someday, ,would love to check out the Sarajevo Derby: Željezničar vs FK Sarajevo. Saw a film on that and it looks INSANE. Plus that city has such a powerful journey. Glad to hit the red rectangle and help you out a bit, and eager for more!

[@XennialTraveller]

I've heard that football matches there can be a bit mental!! I hope you do get to go and witness it for yourself one day :D

[@SorgiStories]

@@XennialTraveller As long as we stay safe, we can deal with mental footie fans. We're peacefully mental sports fans ourselves.

[@lucasurbaitis5055]

I always choose trains over buses when possible, but in this case I would rather travel by bus so I could enjoy that beautiful scenary. Hope I will get a chance to go on this route one day!

[@XennialTraveller]

Yes, for sure. The bus I took from Mostar to Dubrovnik actually started in Sarajevo, so I could have taken a single bus all the way. If you ever do the journey, please do let me know how it is!

[@davorlekenik9563]

@@XennialTraveller ....the "comunist era" was better than today ...Yugoslavia ❤❤ ....also the world was much,much better than now !!!

[@igorkysela3084]

When I have a chance I always prefer to travel by train as it´s more comfortable for me and it makes me angry if wifi does not work :-). I've been to Dubrovnik which is really imposing and Mostar but not in Sarajevo. I enjoyed your informative travel.

[@XennialTraveller]

Totally agree - if there is a train running to where I'm going I think it's the most comfortable and environmentally friendly way to travel. Thanks for watching!! I'm curious why you say Dubrovnik is 'imposing'?

[@Svenywhere]

Why didn't you stay in Mostar for a day as well? It is a great place. At that time we took a bus as well from Mostar to Sarajevo. When we crossed the border the checks weren't random, pretty sure my cousin and I were picked because we were Dutch and the border control really thought we would have drugs on us.

[@XennialTraveller]

Ohhh, you know what... that makes sense 😉 Did you tell them you don't even drink? Actually, I was in Mostar for a couple of days then I went off to Blagaj and Sutjeska National Park 😃 I just had to return the rental car in Sarajevo at the end 🚗

[@Svenywhere]

@@XennialTraveller True you indeed had that moment with your rental car

[@DOUGandNIKI]

Oh no...Dining car fail. It looks like a great way to travel. We hardly ever travel by train. Was the train as empty as it seemed?

[@XennialTraveller]

Yes - it actually was that empty. There were a few cars sparsely occupied like the one I was in (everyone had 2-4 seats to themselves) and others practically had no one. I guess there's just not enough commerce to warrant many passengers between the two cities. Not sure why they don't just remove some cars to save on fuel.

[@DOUGandNIKI]

@@XennialTraveller They were practicing social distancing before it was a thing... being prepared.

[@yeoalan7079]

Hello this bus have a toilet?

[@emirrakovic8386]

Best 😉

[@KitatheExplorer]

I thought about taking a bus out of Dubrovnik but ended up hoping in a car with friends to Montenegro. And the views of the coastline were incredible. I love a good train ride but the views were quite underwhelming.

[@XennialTraveller]

Oooh, what was Montenegro like? I only crossed into the country from the Sutjeska National Park in Bosnia & Herzegovina when I did a day hike.

[@emilianolus9215]

Hi...so..did youbknow which seat looks forward at the left side ( without turning round the seat)?..salute you from Argentina

[@XennialTraveller]

Um not really. You can ask when you buy the ticket.

[@Geof717]

@XennialTraveller I'll be doing the same exact travel as you real soon. How long was the travel from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik?

[@izproslostidokulturenovihs8771]

Bosnia have best trains and herzegovina lakes is best, but bosnia have smolast little hand adriatic sea but it's my country.💦🥰🥰

[@XennialTraveller]

And a very beautiful and fascinating country it is!

[@nurdinahaqilahsupaad7296]

Hi there! enjoyed your videoss! Saw your other video that you went to Mostar too. Since the bus is from Mostar to Dubrovnik. Did you take a uturn back to sarajevo to do this train-bus to dubrovnik? Any reason why its not sarajevo - Mostar - dubrovnik? or perhaps your mostar trip was just a day trip?

[@XennialTraveller]

Hi! Thank you for your kind words. I took my rental car in Sarajevo so I had to return the car back to Sarajevo as well, or somehow that’s how my plan worked out 🙃

[@DreamyTravelStory]

We love to travel by train, but a bit of a shame that there were so many tunnels. The view from the bus looks great though! So many times when we travel on buses or trains it says there should be wifi but it's just a marketing trick I guess 😜 Was 10 days enough to spend in Bosnia & Herzegovina? We would like to do a similar trip like you did.

[@XennialTraveller]

I was a little disapppointed with the train, but at the same time, also glad I did it rather than sit on the same bus for many hours. I think with the Wi-Fi, it probably worked at the start for about a week then never again 😜 Hmmm, for me, whatever amount of time I have in a place is never enough 😂 But 10 days gave me a really good chance to see a large part of the country from cities to national parks - hiking, rafting. If you have the time, I think an extra 5 days would allow you to see a few places I'd have wanted to go to, but didn't have the time... and also you'd be less rushed than me because my schedule was super tight! Hope you guys get to go.

[@damircosic5256]

Pozdrav iz Sarajeva

[@XennialTraveller]

Hello from Malaysia! :)

[@damircosic5256]

@@XennialTraveller zaprati me na moj kanal lijep.pozdrav iz Bosne i Hercegovine

[@beeyianong4230]

Hi Xennial, do you get to stamped on your passport when out of croatia to Mostar? Thanks

[@XennialTraveller]

Yes, for sure you will. You’re going to a different country

[@GoTravelOnTheCheap]

Trains in Eastern Europe are such a unique experience! Such a cheap way to travel from one country to the next. Did you talk any more with the boy at 4:55? April said you should always go with a pastry instead of a pathetic chicken sandwich, hahaha! 😇 Not as long of a travel day as our train ride from Romania to Bulgaria (video out in a couple of weeks), but it seems travel days are always tiring. I loved Dubrovnik! (Except for all of the stairs, lol)

[@XennialTraveller]

I think trains in most places are a great way to travel! The boy at 4:55 wanted some money off me, which sadly I didn't give him because there were quite a lot of kids wandering around so I figured they would swamp me if I started... And having experienced this, I now agree... I was being my accountant self and trying to work out a combination where I could spend exactly all the Bosnian Marks I had left. Haha, there were indeed a LOT of stairs and hard stone streets in Dubrovnik! Only got to spend about 24 hours there though... kayaking around it was really fun.

[@GoTravelOnTheCheap]

Yeah, best to say no to the kids asking for money. We encountered some begging children at a more major highway intersection in Mexico, and they were trying to block us from going by--kind of scary! 😳 LOL, we had a leftover 5 Euro from our trip last March, then we took it on our trip in December, but we still managed to come back home with a 5 Euro despite our efforts to spend all of our foreign money. Kayaking looked fantastic! Hopefully you can get back to Croatia; there is so much more to see & do that even we didn't get to...

[@benhughes803]

That was good. What is next?

[@XennialTraveller]

I have that (short) video of going kayaking in Dubrovnik, which I'm hoping will be fairly quick to put together. Then I have all my videos from India last December! I'm still considering whether I can travel this summer. The UK's just put together the list of quarantine exempt destinations, but there's still the 2 week quarantine in Hong Kong to contend with!

[@benhughes803]

@@XennialTraveller Yes you could get to the UK at the moment but why would you actually want to?

[@brk.flo0]

How much is one ticket from Sarajevo to Mostar ? With the Train

[@XennialTraveller]

I think it was around EUR6 when I travelled - very cheap! You can check the price and buy tickets here: www.zfbh.ba/en

[@MuhammadUsman-ik6mm]

How long did it take you to travel from Sarajevo to Dubronivik in total?

[@XennialTraveller]

The train left Sarajevo at 7:15 am and I arrived in Dubrovnik at about 3 PM. So that’s just under 8 hours.

[@FootballXEdits488]

Im Croat

[@laukowanders]

Did you have any problems to enter bosnia because of corona ?

[@XennialTraveller]

I visited in September 2019, before Covid-19. Just a bit slow in finishing off the videos. As far as I know, Bosnia & Herz, currently (July 2020) still has an entry ban on all non-residents. Are you planning to visit?

[@laukowanders]

Xennial Traveller oh okay. Yeah I am planning a balkan trip for september

[@darum321]

Are u mesut uzil's cousin...hehd

[@XennialTraveller]

Haha - someone in Sarajevo asked me that also!! He wanted a selfie with me because of that haha

[@kranitz-borbas9705]

Magyar Hungarian Mogyi seeds 👍

[@petearmstrong1032]

Pretty creepy move filming the handsome café worker in Neum at the 7:54 mark. He's WORKING not posing for a creep. Not like he would pay attention at you anyways, even if he was gay

[@teezeelife488]

Beautiful 😍 Loved the video. Well done. 💪 Thanks for sharing. Subscribed to follow your adventures #497. We make adventure videos too, don't forget to check us out. I hope our channels grow together. 👍

[@papi8659]

You didnt go to the famous Mostar bridge wtf !!!!! You might as well stay at home

[@XennialTraveller]

Lol! I have a whole other video of the few days I spent in Mostar: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2fZgIZ5qrFsb9Usi=ENvg6yeZ-67DdhF9

[@DJCox95]

Was a great watch, looking forward to future travel vlogs!

[@XennialTraveller]

Thanks Darcy! Do check out my other ones if you haven't already. Have you been to the Balkans? 😀

[@DJCox95]

@@XennialTraveller I will do for sure! And I actually have not been to many areas of the world at all. Maybe the Balkans will be on my list of places to go as well, thank you.