Amelia Fordham, a guest at the Ginger Monkey hostel in Slovakia, takes the hostel dog Max for a walk. The hostel is located in Zdiar, a tiny village in the Tatras mountains of Slovakia, near Hungary.

Olivia Soyk waters the plants in the Bosnian hostel where she works. Soyk found the job on the website Workaway, where backpackers trade their skills for a place to sleep and food while travelling.

The graffitied buildings of Mostar, Bosnia, are visible through the dilapidated walls of the city’s “Sniper Tower.” The Sniper Tower was originally a bank and parking garage in the 1980s, before it was shut down and converted into a sniper tower used in the Bosnian War. The derelict building is officially condemned, though local teenagers and curious tourists often sneak through holes in the barbed wire fence to see graffiti, and climb the treacherous stairway to the rooftop.

Will Carson looks across the hills of Kotor, Montenegro as the sun sets. Carson grew up in Melbourne, Australia, and decided to quit his desk sales job of five years at age 27 to travel the world.

The “Stari Most” Bridge separates the two sides of Mostar, and was a key figure in the Croat-Bosniak war of the 1990s. The bridge stood for more than 400 years before it was decimated by Croat military forces in 1993.