Day 01: Apt – Kruja - Durres

Arrival in the “Mother Theresa” Airport in Tirana. Borders procedures. Please send us in advance all the passports and flights details. Afternoon sightseeing tour. Kruja - is a tourist attraction alongside a panoramic mountainside location. Some of the main points of interest include the Fortress and Citadel, the Skanderbeg museum located inside the castle, and the Old Restored Bazaar. The citadel includes a restored house from the Ottoman epoch that serves as the Ethnographic Museum
After tour in Kruja, drive to Durres. Accommodation and overnight in Durres 
 

Day 02: Durres – Shkodra – Budva – Kotor  

After breakfast in the hotel, meet the group and depart for Shkodra city. Brief city tour in Shkodra. After continue to Montenegro. On the way to Adriatic Riviera, some brief stop for photos to St. Stefan and continue to Kotor. Walking tour of Kotor. Kotor is listed under UNESCO Heritage  The Outstanding Universal Value of Region of Kotor is embodied in the quality of the architecture in its fortified and open cities, settlements, palaces and monastic ensembles, and their harmonious integration to the cultivated terraced landscape on the slopes of high rocky hills. In addition, it bears unique testimony to the exceptionally important role that played over centuries in the spreading of Mediterranean cultures into the Balkans. After visit, continue to Budva. Accommodation and overnight in Budva

Day 03:  Budva – Dubrovnik – Mostar 

After breakfast in the hotel, depart to Dubrovnik. A half day city tour in Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik was originally called Ragusa and was formed in the 7th century when coastal residents took refuge there under the onslaught of barbarian invasions. Known also as the “Pearl of the Adriatic”, Dubrovnik offers a range of attractions.  Our walking tour will take you by the old harbor, Franciscan monastery, St. Laurence Fortress, Sponza and Rector’s Palaces, Bell Tower Clock and Orlando’s Column. After tour departure to Mostar/Bosnia. Accommodation and overnight in Mostar

Day 04: Mostar – Sarajevo 

After breakfast in the hotel, meet the group and start with the walking tour of Mostar. The historic town of Mostar, spanning a deep valley of the Neretva River, developed in the 15th and 16th centuries as an Ottoman frontier town and during the Austro-Hungarian period in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mostar has long been known for its old Turkish houses and Old Bridge, Stari Most, after which it is named. In the 1990s conflict, however, most of the historic town and the Old Bridge, designed by the renowned architect Sinan, was destroyed. The Old Bridge was recently rebuilt and many of the edifices in the Old Town have been restored or rebuilt with the contribution of an international scientific committee established by UNESCO. Afternoon drive to the capital, Sarajevo. Accommodation and overnight in Sarajevo
 

Day 05: Sarajevo

After breakfast in the hotel, meet the group and depart for a full day tour in Sarajevo. Possibility to see and panorama the main important sight of Sarajevo. Archeologist can safely say that the Sarajevo region has been continuously inhabited by humans since the Neolithic age. The most famous example of a Neolithic settlement in the Sarajevo area is that of the Butmir culture. The discoveries at Butmir were made on the grounds of modern day Sarajevo suburb Ilidža in 1893 by Austro-Hungarian authorities during construction of an agricultural school. Dinner in the hotel. Accommodation & overnight in Sarajevo 

Day 06: Sarajevo – Kolasin 

After breakfast in the hotel, meet the group and depart to Montenegro, on the way we will see Podgorica and our stop it will be in the great mountain village of Kolashin (place with many ski resorts with fantastic fresh air. Enjoy the welcome dinner in the hotel and overnight. Accommodation & overnight in hotel in Kolasin
 

Day 07: Kolasin – Pej – Decan – Skopje 

After breakfast in the hotel, meet the group and depart to Kosovo, way to Macedonia. First stop for lunch or refreshments will be in Pej. Continue to Decani. Visoki Dečani Monastery is a major Serbian Orthodox monastery, 12 km south from the town of Pec. Its cathedral is the biggest medieval church in the Balkans, which contains the largest preserved monument of Byzantine fresco painting. The cathedral dedicated to Christ Pantocrator and built from blocks of red-purple, light yellow and onyx marble, was constructed by master-builders under the Franciscan monk Vitus of Kotor. In 2004, UNESCO listed the monastery on the World Heritage List, citing its frescoes as "one of the most valued examples of the so-called Palaeologan renaissance in Byzantine painting" and "a valuable record of the life in the 14th century". 
Leave Pej and continue to Skopje. Enjoy the welcome dinner in the hotel and overnight. Accommodation & overnight in hotel Skopje

Day 08: Skopje – Bitola – Ohrid 

After breakfast in the hotel, meet the group and start the tour of Skopje. The town with the beautiful quay of the Macedonian river “Vardar”, the narrow streets in the Old Bazaar, which is the biggest bazaar, preserved in the Balkans today, is internationally famous for being the birthplace of Mother Teresa. He has blossomed into a thriving, stimulating city to explore, defining itself as an exciting tourist destination with the 1500 years old fortress Kale and monastery St. Pantelejmon with the fresco ”Lamentation of Christ”, with the first signs of the Renaissance, the Islamic monuments of Mustafa Pasha Mosque, the Daud Pasha baths, once the largest baths in Balkans, now the City Art Gallery. 
After the tour leave Skopje and drive to Bitola. Bitola is one of the oldest cities on the territory in the Republic of Macedonia. It was founded as Heraclea Lyncestis in the middle of the 4th century BC by Philip II of Macedon. During the Ottoman rule the city together with Salonica were the two reigning cities of Ottoman Rumelia. 
Afternoon drive to Ohrid. Enjoy the welcome dinner in the hotel and overnight. Accommodation & overnight in hotel in Ohrid

Day 09: Ohrid – ST Naumi – Tirana – Out 

After breakfast in the hotel, meet the group and start the tour of Ohrid. Ohrid - At the lake side resort of Ohrid, classified as a UNESCO`s World Cultural Heritage site. Thanks to the activity of St. Clement and St Naum of Ohrid, the first Pan-Slavic University in Europe - the famous Ohrid Literary School was founded here. Morning sightseeing tour includes the church of St Sofia (11th century), the most eminent medieval monument in Macedonia with magnificent Byzantine fresco paintings, and St. Clément’s Church with its icon of Annunciation. Afternoon short drive for a visit to the St Naum Monastery built on the shores of the Ohrid Lake in 900 A.D. The monastery is dedicated to the Slavic missionary and educator St. Naum of Ohrid. After that, drive directly to Albania / APT. Leave the group in APT

Schedule

Highlights

• The Castle 
• The Skenderbeg Museum
• Ethnographic Museum
• The Cathedral Of Saint Tripun
• The Church Of Saint Luka
• The Old Town
• Stradun Street
• Onoforius Fountains
• Clock Tower
• Sponza Palace And Fountain
• Ivan Grundulic Square
• Riznica Catedral
• Dominiken Monastery
• Fransisken Monastery
• The Mostar Bridge
• The Old Pazar
• The Old Town
• Bugumil City
• Jewish Gettho
• Kosevo Stadium
• National Library
• Bosna River
• Old Bazaar
• Orthodox Church
• Military House