GRAND BALKAN TOUR Escorted Private Tour April 1 - October 31, 2021: Departure any day 10 days / 9 nights: 2 nights in , 1 night in , 1 night in Pogradec, 1 night in , 1 night in Skopje, 1 night in , 1 night in Shkodra, 1 night in Budva

Accommodation Meals Tours Transportation Transfer Also includes

Tirana Breakfast daily in each Professional English Private, Arrival and departure Tax & service charge Hotel Opera 4* or city speaking driver and air-conditioned car transfers. Hermes 4* guide throughout. throughout. Museum entrance Berat Additional transfers fees included. Berat Mangalemi or Residenca Desaret Explore Tirana, Kruja, are available at an Pogradec Apolonia, Pogradec, additional cost. Hotel Perla or Pogradeci , Drillon Ohrid National Park, Skopje, Hotel Aleksandrija or Prizren in and de Lago Podgorica - the capital Skopje of Montenegro. Super 8 Skopje or De Koka Prizren Hotel Theranda or Centrum Shkodra Hotel Carmen or Rozafa Budva Hotel Hermes GRAND BALKAN TOUR 2021

10 days / 9 nights ← Prizren

Budva ← ← Shkodra ← DATES Land Only Skopje US$ Per Person Twin Single ← ←

April 1 - October 31, 2021 $2,990 $3,485

← Option to add 1 additional night in at the end ← Tirana←

Ohrid

of the tour (Hotel Labad or similar). Departure transfer ← included from Dubrovnik. See details below: ← Pogradec GRAND BALKAN TOUR 2021 Berat 11 days / 10 nights with Dubrovnik DATES Land Only US$ Per Person Twin Single April 1 - October 31, 2021 $3,174 $3,898 Minimum 2 people traveling per tour.

Berat Prizren Budva 14. PRIVATE ESCORTED TOUR 2021 GRAND BALKAN TOUR

Ohrid

DAY BY DAY ITINERARY

Day 1. Day. 4 Day 7. Depending on the time of arrival in Tirana, we After breakfast depart to visit Pogradec. Stop After breakfast, drive to Prizren in Kosovo, may do a short city tour. In the evening, we'll at Elbasa to see the beautiful Ottoman walls. a true open air museum and one of the most have and optional dinner at a traditional Arrive at Lake Ohrid, one of the deepest beautiful towns in Kosovo, situated on the restaurant and then explore the nightlife of freshwater lakes in Europe - home to a great slopes of the Sharr Mountains and on the Tirana, walking in the ex-block area known as number of fish and birds found nowhere else in banks of the river Bistrica. The craftsmen of Prizren are well known for their beautiful gold "forbidden town" where the villas of the com- the world. Enjoy an optional lunch at a local and silver items. Optional dinner and overnight munist leaders are still standing next to trendy restaurant in Drilon, decorated with willow in Prizren. (B) boutiques, expensive jeweler shops and lively trees and streams flowing down to the lake. Nice spot not far from Ohrid Lake which local pubs. Overnight in Tirana. Day 8. Day 2. been a preferred holiday destination for ex-dic- After breakfast, tour the old part of Prizren. After breakfast, drive to Kruja-known for tator, Hoxha. Overnight in Pogradec. (B) Then cross the border to to visit Albania's national hero . Visit the Day 5. Shkodra. It has been an important city for over Castle and the Skanderbeg and Ethnograph- After breakfast, visit Drillon National Park on 2,000 years. Once part of the Venetian Empire, ic Museums. Explore the Old and the shores of Lake Ohrid. Cross the border Italian influence is evident everywhere. Visit continue to Durres, the ancient Greco-Roman into Macedonia and visit the Monastery of Rozafa Castle. Optional dinner and over- port city "Dyrrachium". The visit to the town St. Naum. Continue to the other side of the night in Shkodra. (B) includes the Byzantine city walls, the Roman lake to Ohrid. Visit the 11th century castle and Amphitheater and the Archeological Museum. other important ancient churches and schools. Day 9. Drive back to Tirana for overnight. (B) Orthodox Byzantine monks brought Christi- Tour the old town of Shkodra, then cross the Day 3. anity to Ohrid in the 10th century from Greece border to Montenegro. Drive to the capital Breakfast at your hotel. After breakfast, through the efforts of St. Cyril and Methodios, Podgorica for a short city tour. Continue to Budva, one of the oldest settlements on the proceed to the ancient Greek settlement who crafted the Cyrillic alphabet. Overnight in Adriatic, now the most famous summer resort of Apolonia, founded in 588 BC. Continue Ohrid. (B) of Montenegro. Visit Old Town and listen to to Ardenica with its medieval monastery Day 6. legends about the Theban King Cadmus and Skopje was an important city for the Otto- surrounded by stonewalls. Visit Mary Church the development of the city from the Greek and St. Triadha Chapel. Drive to Berat - anoth- mans from the end of the 14th century. The period to turbulent Middle Ages and the devas- er "Museum City" also known as "the city of Skopje of today retains that influence and is a tating 1976 earthquake. Overnight in Budva. (B) thousand windows". You will see the painted thriving modern city. The largest Turkish bath Mosque of the Bachelors and the Tekke of the in the Balkans is located here and is now an Art Day 10. Halvetis complex with its beautiful portico. End Museum. We will visit the Turkish Bazaar Breakfast at the hotel. Afterwards, private car your day with a visit to Onuphri Icon Museum. and the National Museum. Overnight in transfer to the Dubrovnik airport via the Scenic Overnight in Berat.(B) Skopje. (B) Bay. This is the end of your tour. (B) FIRST CLASS PRIVATE TOUR 2021 15.