The Bijambare area, well-known for its cave complex, is located on the far north-eastern slopes of Ilijaš municipality, near Olovo a small town near Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The protected landscape area is within boundaries of the Nišići plateau.
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It was a wonderfull experience. They have a ticket to enter the park and extra ticket to enter the cave. They also provide a train to transfer you from the enterance of the park to the ticket counter of the cave. (Train ticket is only for one way). The park is fine and on the way you can find some chairs to sit if you prefer walking than taking the train. I didn't enjoy the park itself nothing is special and there are some shops and a cafe. Inside the cave, it is very cold. It is mid-size and you can see a lot of natural formation. You need to enter with a guide who takes a group of people inside. Basically, the tour guide only opens the door of the cave at certain hours, and you can enter based on these hours with all people there waiting (appearantly there is no limit number of the group size). We waited for 1.5 hour for next tour group. For me it is a nice experience and it is the first. You can also climb up the stairs for a smaller free entrance cave. The view there is stunning! I didn't like about the experience that we didn't know that we need to pay this much as I explained first. I thought paying at the park entrance means affording also cave entrance. Also, for the train, the guy does not know English and we couldn't communicate properly and he didn't tell us the ticket is only for one way. They are ticketing us for everything and we get surprise each time. They should inform us...
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Bijambare Speleological Area is a protected natural site located northeast of Sarajevo on Sarajevo-Tuzla Highway (approximately 40 km from Sarajevo). Bijambare Caves is a speleological complex surrounded by thick conifer forest, two brooks, small lakes, several springs and a great variety of mushrooms, medicinal herbs and some rare endemic species. The area is ideal for outdoor picnics, hunting, fishing, hiking, speleological research...
The complex is comprised of several caves but only three are open to visitors.
The most popular cave is Srednja bijambarska pecina or the Middle Bijambare Cave. It is over 400 m long with a passageway which branches into four chambers ornamented with stalactites hanging from the cave roof extending into spectacular curtains and stalagmites which form the cave floor. The forth chamber is the largest and it is called the "Music Chamber” due to its acoustic effects. The Central Bijambare Cave is home to bats and crickets and some other species. There are numerous findings from the Ice Age (animal skeletons) and Paleolite (cave men). A hundred meters from the Central Cave, you will come across the Lower Bijambare Cave, where the Brodic...
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It’s a beautiful cave worth seeing, but a couple of things can really ruin your mood. First, you pay an entrance fee, and then you have to pay extra if you don’t want to walk about 2 km (though you’re not obligated to pay—you can walk if you prefer). At first, it was quite a disappointment because we only saw the cave entrance and two small caves at the top. We thought, “Did we really come all this way just for this?” While heading down, an official asked us if we wanted to see the inside of the cave. When we said yes, we learned there was another fee to pay for that.
The inside of the cave was truly beautiful. (Note: Make sure to bring a jacket— even on the hottest day, we were all freezing inside.) When everything was over and we were heading back, we found out we had to pay again for the vehicle ride.
In short, all of these fees could be collected upfront or sold as packages. If the official hadn’t asked us about seeing the inside of the cave, we would have left with a very...
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