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B018

A Shelter in Balkan Ethnic Lands

Day Departure Tour Overnight Distance Duration
Day 01 Tirana Arpt Shkodra 85 km 1.5 hrs
Day 02 Shkodra Koman – Prizren Prizren 200 km 5 hrs
Day 03 Prizren Gracanica Skopje 190 km 4 hrs
Day 04 Skopje Tetovo – Mavrovo Ohrid 240 km 4,5 hrs
Day 05 Ohrid Ohrid – St. Naum Ohrid 70 km 1,5 hrs
Day 06 Ohrid Berat Berat 200 km 4 hrs
Day 07 Berat Tirana Tirana 135 km 2,5 hrs
Day 08 Tirana Tirana Airport 60 km 1,5 hrs

Program Day 01: through narrow passes, past silent mountain
peaks. Upon arrival to Bajram Curri, time
Tirana Airport – Shkodra
Itinerary Welcome in Albania! Meet the guide and for lunch and panoramic drive to Valbona
driver at the airport and transfer Shkodra. National Park. Continue driving to Prizren for
Dinner and overnight in Shkodra dinner and overnight
Day 02: Day 03:
Shkodra – Koman Prizren – Gracanica – Skopje
KOSOVO Lake – Valbona NP Start exploring Prizren’s old town, the cradle
– Prizren of cultural wealth of the people of Kosovo.
Gracanica After breakfast, The walking tour will take you to the Ottoman
Prizren drive to Koman bridge, the water fountain, many unique
Koman
dam. The 3-hour mosques Hamman and Halveti Tekke.
Skopje trip on Lake Komani Drive towards Skopje in Macedonia, with
was called “One stop en route to visit Gracanica Monastery.
Shkodra Tetovo of the Great Boat Gracanica Monastery one of King Milutin's
Kruja Trips of the World” last monumental endowments. Gracanica
Mavrovo by the Bradt Guide, was constructed on the ruins of an older
Tirana MACEDONIA and now everyone 13th-century church of the Theotokos, which
St. Naum repeats it, because was built on the ruins of a 6th-century early
Ohrid it is super-true! Christian three-naved basilica. Continue to
Berat The Drin River Skopje, via Hani Elezit border for dinner and
was flooded along overnight
ALBANIA part of its most Day 04:
mountainous length
to create these Skopje – Mavrovo NP – Ohrid
lakes, meaning that Start panoramic city tour of Skopje. SKOPJE
now you float on – It is a city in the west where you can find
glassy, blue water, the signs of East as it was under the rule of
twisting and turning Ottoman Empire for a long time. We spend

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