Doboj

Doboj is a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Republika Srpska entity. Doboj is at a pivotal point on the rivers Usora, Spreca and Bosna. It is one of those Bosnian towns where you can find Orthodox, Catholic Churches and Mosques close to each other.

Get in

By plane

The closest airports are at Tuzla and Banja Luka. If arriving by plane, you can travel via Belgrade (Serbia), Sarajevo (Bosna and Herzegovina) (shorter route), or Zagreb and Dubrovnik (Croatia).

By bus

You can try and find direct bus lines from some of European cities to Doboj, but in that case your journey may be quite long. Buses also run from Belgrade, Sarajevo and other cities.

Bus Zagreb -Doboj Departure: 14:00 Arrival: about 18:00

Price (one-way): about €13.

Bus Belgrade – Doboj

• Departure:07:00 - Arrival: 13:00
• Departure:10:00 - Arrival: 16:00
• Departure:22:30 - Arrival: 04:30

Bus Novi Sad – Doboj

• Departure:06:00 - Arrival: around 11:00
• Departure:07:00 - Arrival: around 12:00
• Departure:07:30 - Arrival: around 12:30

• To/from Salzburg (Austria) three times per week, with Boro Bus

By train

Railway options are pretty good as Doboj is railway junction of BiH. From European countries, direct lines from Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo and Nis are bus and railway lines, as follows:

Train Zagreb – Doboj Departure: 8:57 Arrival: 14:55 Price (one-way): about €27.

Train Belgrade – Doboj Departure: 15:30 Arrival: 22:30 Price (one-way): about €11.

Train Budapest – Doboj Departure: 17:45 Arrival: 02:27 Price (one-way): about €35.

Train Sarajevo – Doboj Departure: 10:41 Arrival: 13:34 Departure: 20:32 Arrival: 23:25 Price (one-way): about 14 KM.

For more information – www.zrs-rs.com

By car

Doboj is a tourist crossroad of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Magistral road M17.

Get around

Getting around Doboj isn't a big problem, since it's a small city. There are local buses that have routes in Doboj and small towns in the municipality. Taxis can be seen around Doboj occasionally.

See

• Doboj fortress is now one of the main tourist attractions in Bosnia and Hezegovina. Enhanced by the Bosnian aristocracy Kotromanic (13th century) and the Ottomans when they arrived in Doboj in the 16th century. Much of it is still intact and the view from the fortress's hilltop position is worth the climb.
• One of the attractive spots nearby is Mount Ozren, the mountain right next to Doboj.
• There are a few 13th-century monasteries, St. Nichola’s Monastery near Petrovo being the most interesting among them.
• Goransko lake - beautiful place 7 km from Doboj with good tourist offers: camping place, swimming, grill places, benches, natural creek, parking, restaurant, children playground...
• Preslica - part of Ozren mount. Restaurant, good natural resources, benches and tables, stage for performances.

14th Century Doboj Fortress, reconstructed in 2006, with a wooden stage added during reconstruction

Do

• The most interesting place in Doboj and famous Bosnian tourist attraction is Doboj Fortress (in picture). There is a rich tourist offer: children playground, coffee shop, concerts, poet nights, knight battle, exhibition, volunteer camps, theatre, etc.
• Doboj cafes (Orange Bar, Glamour, Havana, La linea) are really relaxing and are located in the Centre of Doboj. There are good restaurants (Fisherman story, City, Dalmatia), nightclubs (Moskva, Hole), discotheques (Dzungla), pubs (Irish Pub), shopping centers (BMD, TROPIC), librarys, the Regional Museum, a theatre.
• If you are visiting Doboj in summer main attraction is the Džungla bazeni. It known to be one of the best pools in Bosnia. If you are lucky a famous Serbian, Bosnian or Croatian singer my have a concert at Džungla bazeni. The pool also has a night club which is great for night life in Doboj.
• There are also beautiful churches, mosques and synagogues to see in Doboj.

Buy

For some tourists that visit Doboj shopping might not be cheap compared to where they come from.

Currency in Bosnia and Herzegovina is called Konvertibile or Bosnian Mark (KM/BAM). 1 euro=1.95KM. Money can be exchanged in exchange offices or banks, or picked up on one of numerous cash mashines placed all over the town. Also all products and services in BiH can be paid in euros.

To give you an idea about prices of things, here are prices of several products: a bottle of water 1-2 KM, a juice in a coffee shop 1.5-2.5KM, sandwich 1-1.5 KM, coffee (in a coffee shop) 1 KM, phone card for a phone booth (for local and international calls) is between 5 and 10 KM.

Buy souvenirs from Doboj Fortress, bottle of domestic Rakia Medovaca (domestic brandy), or a bottle of Sljivovica.

Eat

Cevapcici- National brand. Pljeskavica, burek, raznjici, pizza, burek, cicvara, proja.

Drink

Rakija Medovacha -domestic honey brandy, Rakija Sljivovica-Domestic brandy and domestic beer.Also you can taste Drenjak juice-domestic product. You can taste it in Coffee shop on Doboj Fortress. www.dobojskatvrdjava.rs.ba

Sleep

Doboj has a few hotels.

• Hotel Integra. Vidovdanska bb south of the city, +387 53 224 274. For a two-bed room per night is approx. 85KM. 

Go next

By bus or by train (to Sarajevo, Jajce,Travnik, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Dubrovnik).