Picture this. You’re in Bosnia, roughly 150 kilometres from the nearest stretch of coast, standing in the middle of a city, and you decide to go for a swim in salt water. Not a pool that someone dumped a bag of salt into. Actual salt water, the same salinity as the sea, in three lakes sitting right in the town centre.

So you’ve decided to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina. Excellent taste. The only remaining question is how to actually get there, and the answer is: probably easier than you think, from more places than you’d expect, and with fewer bureaucratic hoops than almost anywhere else in Europe.

Let’s fix that before your Google search takes you somewhere with outdated information from 2019. Here’s exactly how to get to Bosnia in 2026, from anywhere in the world.