Sarajevo Street Art & Graffiti Workshop Funky Half Day Tour of Sarajevo

Great tours to really dig beneath the surface and hear from locals

The company name Funky Tours doesn't do them justice – neither the American slang or Anglo definition! I would choose words like authentic, honest, genuine and relevant. I enjoyed three tours with these Funky Folks, each with a different guide. Each guide was local and gave a really genuine insight into Bosnian heritage and contemporary life. I felt that I really got to understand the country from real insiders that took me well beyond the tourist trail. My favourite was the graffiti tour of Sarajevo. To be fair, I had the advantage of a private tour, so we chatted away about Sarajevo's creative scene and emerging street art movement while exploring some of the coolest bits of the city. By the end of my three tours, I felt my initial limited perceptions of Sarajevo has been truly challenged and I left the country as a new, empowered advocate of Bosnia and Sarajevo. Do visit. And do explore with Sarajevo Funky Tours to really dig beneath the surface.

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An amazing Street Art Tour of Sarajevo

We as graffiti lovers and part time artists ourselves wanted to learn more about street art industry of Sarajevo and we booked graffiti tour with Sarajevo Funky Tours. What an amazing experience it was. Initially you are covering the remote parts of Sarajevo that are totally of the beaten path, but are located within the city itself and following the story of street art development in Sarajevo since 1990ies. War time ruins and abandoned places where local and foreign graffiti boys and girls are doing their masterpieces are simply worth exploring, and experience like this heavily helps you better understand destination you are travelling through. Murals of David Bowie, Karim Zaimovic and few others are simply true works of art. Last part of the tour was Sarajevo Olympic bobsled which is true graffiti wonderland and place which you could never imagine to exist. It is full of graffiti art of local and world famous artists who have been around Sarajevo and leaving their traces behind. Our guide was able to give us explanation on every single graffiti we asked for, as he himself is one of the most famous local artists. Graffiti workshop was the creme on top of the cake, as that gave us amazing opportunity to paint our own thing and learn more about techniques local artists use. Graffiti painting goes well with hot tea or hot wine Funky Tours team provided us, as it was all snowed out and quite cold during the January. We hope to be back and experience this tour once again.

Response from the operator: Hi alexlivigno84 Thank you so much! We really enjoyed this day together with you! Sarajevo Street Art and Graffiti Workshop tour is something we have created only recently so the fact we got our first TripAdvisor review, make us even more excited over it, especially since we have noticed a huge interest of people to find out more about street art in Sarajevo and BiH in general. It was a great pleasure to take you through certain parts of Sarajevo which are totally off the beaten path and usually not common to be seen during the regular half day tours. The tour is created to uphold and encourage street art culture in Sarajevo and to give credits to our excellent artists. This is why we have double responsibility while conducting this tour- towards our guests and the entire street art culture of Sarajevo and based on the comments we got so far- we are doing a good job here :) In general, we are trying to cover the whole range of historical facts of street art followed by stories of origins of street art in Sarajevo, as well as covering the places that are clearly showing revolution of actual street art scene keeping as a highlight a chance for our guests to try themselves in graffiti art at the famous Bobsleigh and learn more about local techniques from our guide who is one of the best local artists in the country. Thank you so much for joining this tour and hope there will be some chance to see you again. In future, we will be carefully watching the progress of the street art in Sarajevo so, next time you visit us we will take you to some yet unexplored locations :) All the best from SAFT team!

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