Why Bosnia and Herzegovina is the perfect ski destination for 2020 | London Evening Standard

Jahorina has little recent history of attracting visitors. Under Bosnian-Serb military rule during the mid-Nineties, it became a strategic location with army units planting mines in the forests and Nato bombing its mountaintop radar station with cruise missiles. Following the Dayton Agreement, which brokered peace in the region, chalets became occupied by displaced Serbs from Sarajevo. Bosnia’s mountains, however, have their redemptive qualities. “Skiing is the reconciliation sport,” says Skender Hatibovic, my guide and driver, and there’s a sense tourism is helping. A new gondola has just opened, golden-oldie crooner Bryan Ferry played the season opening party in December, and plans are afoot for Jahorina to join nearby Ravna Planina ski centre, adding an extra 15km to the piste map.

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