We're here year-round. That's the difference.
A letter from Almedin — born in Sarajevo, on these roads for fourteen years.
How it started
My name is Almedin Memović but friends gave me a nickname, Meme. I was born in Sarajevo in 1993 — in the second year of the Siege.
I came to tourism the way most good things happen — accidentally. During my university years I started working the front desk at a local hostel, and a lobby full of guests from everywhere turned out to be the perfect place for someone who has never been able to sit still.
The guiding grew from there. One of the leading agencies in the region took a chance on me as a young prospect. Three years later I opened Tallest Tourguide at 24 — cooking classes, alternative routes, experiences that felt personal rather than packaged. Then COVID came, and like so much else, it stopped. I spent the next four years building expertise in UX and design.
Now I am back as a Tour Guide, Trip Leader and a Product Designer
History is personal here
What I had going for me was never a textbook — it was a lifetime of listening. My father remembers the Siege. My grandparents remember Yugoslavia. I grew up hearing these stories long before I knew what to do with them.
When I guide, I am not reading from a script. I am translating decades of family memory, shaped by fourteen years of work and learning from colleagues who built entire careers in this city. The result is a voice that carries weight — not performative, not packaged, just honest proximity to events that shaped a continent.
“Tallest Tourguide & Friends is back. This is not a return. It is a second chapter, built on everything the first one taught me.”
Almedin Memović Meme
We don't arrive when a group books
We travel these routes in every season, not only when there is a departure to run. That is why we can tell you which mountain pass worth passing through, which family is making cheese this week, and whose uncle will share drops of his "maksuzija" rakija.
It is the difference between promising the authentic and actually delivering it.
A small team with skin in the game
Everyone who guides with us has a stake in how the trip goes. We are not a call centre booking a subcontractor — we are the people you will actually travel with, and the families who host you are people we have known for years.
Our friends are our colleagues and they supply everything that we cannot cover. Our tour guides, hosts, drivers have a quality guarantee.
What fourteen years gives you
Born and raised in Sarajevo
Born in Bosnia, lived in Herzegovina, turned stones around the Balkan. The streets, the neighbourhoods, the people — home in the literal sense. That depth doesn't come from a guidebook.
Fourteen years in tourism
From a hostel front desk, to a leading regional agency, to running Tallest Tourguide from age 24. Every year added a layer no certification replaces.
Languages
English (fluent) · Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian (native) · Spanish (conversational). Local context is never lost in translation.
Genuinely small groups
A deliberate limit, not a marketing line. Small groups move differently — through crowds, through conversations, through moments a bus tour can't reach.
“We don't promise the authentic. We deliver it, because we live inside it.”
Well, it is kinda a promise
The philosophy behind all of it is gostoprimstvo — the Balkan art of hosting.
The principle behind everything we run: gostoprimstvo.