Belgrade tour follows Radovan Karadzic's footsteps

BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serb agency is offering tours following the footsteps of Radovan Karadzic, until recently one of the world's most wanted fugitives.

Karadzic, who turned out to be living in Belgrade under the identity of a New Age healer, was arrested in July.

About 150 tourists, all foreigners, have gone on the tours which started last month for just 5 and 7 euros (4-5.6 pounds), said Tanja Bogdanov, director of the Vekol tourist agency.

"In the last 10 years the only news in the foreign media about Serbia was linked to war criminals and political turbulence," she said. "Tourists are interested in our tours because the entire world knows about our problems and political situation."

The first stop goes to the building where the Bosnian Serb wartime leader, alias Dr Dragan Dabic, lived and the bakery where he liked to eat home-made potato pie. After looking around his favourite grocery shop, tourists can see the small bar next door he frequently visited and where his portrait still hangs.

The tour continues by following the bus No. 73 route that brought him to the spot where he was arrested and finishes in front of Serbia's special court for war crimes, from where he was taken to the Hague tribunal.

Karadzic, indicted for genocide in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, was extradited to the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague in July.

(Writing by Ljilja Cvekic; editing by Adam Tanner)