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'''Bosnia and Herzegovina''' is generally good for hitchhiking as the people here are very warm and friendly. If you are from a western country, chances are good that the people you meet in the street will have friends or relatives living in your country (due to refugees who left Bosnia during the [http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War war]). This makes for an easy conversation with locals (if you can communicate with them).
== Hitchhiking ==Police won't give you any trouble here. In some places you may have to wait for quite some time, though. Indeed, Bosnia is quite poor and not so many people can afford travelling traveling far away by car.
The roads are not in such a good quality (you will notice some small wood bridges, and your speed average may not excess 50 60 km/hour on most of the 'good' roads...), there is just one short highway in Bosnia and Herzegovina.But Bosnia is a beautiful country, so get in a truck and enjoy the landscape. :)
Some car drivers will not understand the concept of hitchhiking, and private taxi is a major form of public transport. Therefore, make sure before you board a vehicle that the driver is not an informal taxi. Also make sure to keep an eye on the road - if the driver makes sudden turns or there are any other uncommon for usual driving changes in his behavior, it is likely that he is either a taxi driver or that he thinks he is doing good by bringing you to the local bus station. You therefore will have to be reiterative on stating that you travel exclusively by ''autostop''.
== Accommodation ==
People from the [[Balkans]] are very friendly and may help you a lot. They may not only pay you a drink (Notice that in the Balkans countries, one person pays the drinks for all the people drinking together! So either pay for everybody or enjoy your free drink!), but they might accommodate you at their place.
In Bosnia, you will find a lot of partially built/destroyed houses (war!) where it is often possible to sleep (many of them still have a roof). Those houses are empty for years and are often quite clean, so a mattress and a sleeping bag may be enough to spend a good night.
== Dangers ==