The Bosnian capital (pop. 347,000) is lively and engaging, but also holds remnants of its wartime past, when during its siege by the Serbian army from 1992 to 1995 it was a tense, sometimes hellish landscape of shelling, sniper fire, and shortages. The main one is the Tunnel of Hope, dug under the airport runway, it was a lifeline during the siege, a symbol of indomitable will, and And of course there´s plenty about the war in the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina., including the permanent exhibition "Besieged Sarajevo."
Read more in Tripatini contributor Junaid Hasan´s post ´Dark Tourism´ in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Journey Through Shadows and History.
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