| Bosnia-Herzegovina |
Facts for the Visitor
Visas| US citizen: | No visa required for a 30-day stay. Hotels do required police registration. |
| Japanese citizen: | No visa required for a 30-day stay. Hotels do required police registration. |
| Many people in tourist related industries speak English. Learning the Cyrillic Alphabet is needed to read bus destinations and maps in the Serbian half of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Croat and Muslim half of the country use the Roman Alphabet. |
| Cash machines on the Plus / Cirrus / Maestro international networks are on main roads and pedestrian walkways in Sarajevo. |
| US$ 1 = KM 1.9854 (Bosnia-Herzegovina Konvertible Mark) on September 21, 2002. It is a fully convertible currency to US$ and Euro at a moneychanger or bank in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. |
| 220V, 50Hz. Electrical outlets are for mainland European parallel round pin plugs. |
| International Certificates of Vaccination are not required. |
| Round bills up. |
| Public telephones take telephone cards. |
| Sarajevo has 56 kbps connections for KM 2 per hour. |
| Tourist oriented services, including accommodation and restaurants, are priced high. A good alternative to the US$100 per night hotel is private accommodation in a family home. A good place to start in Sarajevo is Turistička Agencija Ljubačica at ul Mula Mustafe Bašeskije 65 in the Baščaršija section of downtown. Turistička Agencija Ljubačica will place you in a private home according to your specifications and properly register your stay with the police. |
| City buses and trams are a fixed KM 1.20 per ride or KM 4.00 for a 1-day ticket. Taxi fares are negotiated in advance. Long-distance buses are new and comfortable, and they make frequent toilet stops. Long-distance buses charge an additional KM 1.00 per peice of stowed luggage. |
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