7 Day Folk Dancing Tour Of Albania
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Itinerary
6x Breakfast
6x Breakfast
5x Dinner
5x Dinner
Accommodation included: 5 nights
Accommodation included: 5 nights
6 nights accommodation
6 nights accommodation
English Speaking Guide
English Speaking Guide
Transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle
Transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle
5 Folk show performances and...
5 Folk show performances and learning to dance
Entry/Admission - Muzeu Historik Kombetar
Entry/Admission - Muzeu Historik Kombetar
Entry/Admission - Durres Archaeological Museum
Entry/Admission - Durres Archaeological Museum
Entry/Admission - Durres Castle
Entry/Admission - Durres Castle
Entry/Admission - Durres Amphitheatre
Entry/Admission - Durres Amphitheatre
Entry/Admission - Kruja Castle
Entry/Admission - Kruja Castle
Entry/Admission - National Museum George...
Entry/Admission - National Museum George Kastrioti Skanderbeg
Entry/Admission - Ethnographic Museum of...
Entry/Admission - Ethnographic Museum of Kruja
Entry/Admission - Berat Castle
Entry/Admission - Berat Castle
Entry/Admission - National Iconographic Museum...
Entry/Admission - National Iconographic Museum Onufri
Entry/Admission - National Ethnographic Museum...
Entry/Admission - National Ethnographic Museum Berat
Entry/Admission - Lead Mosque Berat
Entry/Admission - Lead Mosque Berat
Entry/Admission - Ardenica Monastery
Entry/Admission - Ardenica Monastery
Entry/Admission - Apollonia Archaeological Park
Entry/Admission - Apollonia Archaeological Park
Entry/Admission - Zvernec Monastery
Entry/Admission - Zvernec Monastery
Entry/Admission - Ali Pasha Castle
Entry/Admission - Ali Pasha Castle
Entry/Admission - Butrint National Park
Entry/Admission - Butrint National Park
Entry/Admission - Skenduli House
Entry/Admission - Skenduli House
Entry/Admission - Ismail Kadare's House
Entry/Admission - Ismail Kadare's House
Entry/Admission - Gjirokaster Castle
Entry/Admission - Gjirokaster Castle
Entry/Admission - Gjirokastra bazaar
Entry/Admission - Gjirokastra bazaar
Not included:
Health/Travel insurance
Health/Travel insurance
Other personal expenses
Other personal expenses
Gratuities
Gratuities
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ยAbout experience
Itinerary
Day 1: Pick up - Tirana
Stop At: Tirana, Tirana, Tirana County
Pickup from Tirana International Airport or Durrรซs Port or any Hotel in Tirana and driving to the hotel. After check-in, free time.
Duration: 18 hours
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight at a 4 stars Hotel, located in the center.
Day 2: Tirana - Durrรซs - Krujรซ
Stop At: Muzeu Historik Kombetar, Skenderbej Square Boulevard Zogu I, Tirana 1001 Albania
We discover Albania's capital city on a 3-hour walking tour with a local guide. See Tirana's disintegrating soviet-era buildings, modern-day building projects and proud historic monuments, all side-by-side. We will visit the National History Museum.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Skanderbeg Square, At the center of Tirana, Tirana Albania
The Skanderbeg Square (Albanian: Sheshi Skรซnderbej) is the main plaza in the centre of Tirana.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Et`hem Bey Mosque, Sheshi Skenderbej, Tirana 1001 Albania
The Hadji Et'hem Bey Mosque is a mosque in Tirana, Albania. Closed under communist rule, the mosque reopened as a house of worship in 1991.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Clock Tower, Sheshi Skenderbej next to Et`hem Bey Mosque, Tirana Albania
The Tirana Clock Tower began to be built by Haxhi Et'hem Beu in 1822.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Tirana Castle, Shรซtitorja Murat Toptani, Tiranรซ, Albania
Fortress of Justinian or simply known as Tirana Castle is a castle in Tirana, Albania. Its history dates back before 1300 and is a remnant from the Byzantine-era.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Tanners' Bridge, Bulevardi Jean D'Arc, Tirana Albania
Tanners' Bridge is a stone footbridge of the 18th-century Ottoman period.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Pyramid of Tirana, Bulevardi Dรซshmorรซt e Kombit, Tiranรซ 1010, Albania
The Pyramid of Tirana is a structure and former museum of the ex-dictator.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Blloku, Tirana Albania
Residential Blloku is an upscale nightlife and shopping hotspot, with hip bars and cafes, and trendy global restaurants alongside luxury boutiques. During the era of Communist rule, it was a closed-off precinct for the party elite, and the villa of long-ruling dictator Enver Hoxha still stands.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Durres Archaeological Museum, Rruga Taulantia, Durres Albania
Drive to Durres and visit the Durrรซs Archaeological Museum established in 1951, the largest in the country, including Durrรซs prehistoric, archaic, classical, and civic Illyrian periods, extending to the 1st century.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Durres Castle, Durres Albania
Durrรซs Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Durrรซsit) is the fortified old city of Durrรซs, enclosed by city walls built in the late 5th century, and repaired and reinforced in the Middle Ages and early modern periods.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Durres Amphitheatre, Rruga Kalase, Durres Albania
Roman Amphitheatre of Durrรซs built after the 2nd century B.C remains one of the most majestic of the ancient world and one of ten most beautiful Roman amphitheatres.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Venetian Tower, Rruga Anastas Durrsaku, Durrรซs, Albania
Durres castle was reinforced with several guard towers by the Republic of Venice
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Kruja Castle, Near Tirana, Kruje 1501 Albania
Driving to Kruja. Viziting Kruja Castle, that was historically one of the most important defensive strongholds in the country.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: National Museum George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, Kruja Castle, Rruga Kala, Krujรซ 1501, Albania
Visit to Skanderbeg Museum, dedicated to the most celebrated of all Albanian heroes.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Ethnographic Museum of Kruja, Fortress of Kruja, Kruje 1501 Albania
Ethnographic Museum that presents the story of Albanian customs and traditions throughout the centuries.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Old Bazaar (Pazari i Vjeter), Rruga Albanopolis, Kruje 1501 Albania
A walk and shopping tour inside the fantastic Old Medieval Bazar.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Kruje, Kruje, Durres County
Dinner with live folk performance. The music band and the group of dancers performing and giving instructions and lessons for some of the Albanian folk songs and dances from Kruja.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
โข Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at a 4 stars Hotel, located in the center.
Day 3: Krujรซ - Berat
Stop At: Berat Castle, Rruga Mihal Komnena, Berat 5001 Albania
Driving to Berat. Being famous for its white-washed houses with many windows giving the nickname โtown of a thousand windowsโ or also known as โOne above another Windowsโ. Visit to the Berat Castle, also referred to as the Citadel of Berat and castle quarter, which is a fortress overlooking the town.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: National Iconographic Museum Onufri, Located in the Inner Part of Saint Mary Church in Berat Castel, Berat Albania
Visit the "Onufri" Museum dedicated to Byzantine art and iconography, located inside the castle.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: National Ethnographic Museum Berat, Lagja 13 Shtatori Mangalem, Berat Albania
Visit the Ethnographic Museum that contains a diversity of everyday objects from throughout history of the city.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Lead Mosque Berat, Rruga Gaqi Gjika, Berat, Albania
Visit the Lead Mosque, a 16th-century historical mosque.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Berat, Berat, Berat County
Dinner folk show performance and folk dancing with group & dancers from Berati area.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
โข Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at a 4 stars Hotel, located in the center
Day 4: Berat - Apollonia - Vlorรซ
Stop At: Ardenica Monastery, Ardenice Albania
Drive to the magnificent little monastery of Ardenica, an Orthodox church, built by the Byzantine emperor Andronicus in 1282.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Apollonia Archaeological Park, Pojan Albania
Driving to Apollonia. Visiting the Apollonia Archaeological Park, which contains artifacts unearthed nearby from the ancient town of Apollonia, flourished during the 4th century AD.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Zvernec Monastery, Zvernec Island, Vlore Albania
Driving to Zvernec. Visiting the St. Mary's Monastery, a medieval Byzantine church in Zvรซrnec Island inside the Narta Lagoon close to Vlorรซ.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Vlore, Vlore, Vlore County
Continue to a coastal city of Vlora, the second biggest city port in Albania.
Dinner with Folklore from Vlora area songs and dances where we will be taught how to dance by the folk group master.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
โข Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at a 4 stars Hotel, located in the center.
Day 5: Vlorรซ - Llogara - Saranda
Stop At: Llogara National Park, Llogara National Park, Vlore County
Drive to Llogara Pass, in Llogara Park, that is an evergreen forested area, extending up to 1800m high above the sea level.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Ali Pasha Castle, Sh8 Porto Palermo, Porto Palermo Beach, Vlore Albania
Drive along the amazing Southern Riviera with idyllic and breath-taking spots along this craggy coast. Stop and visit Porto Palermo Castle, a 19th-century fortress, also known as the Castle of Ali Pasha.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Borsh, Borsh, Vlore County
Continue to Borshi village and its water spring.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Saranda, Saranda, Vlore County
Arriving in Saranda. During dinner, we will have polyphonic songs performed. Albanian iso-polyphony is a traditional part of Albanian folk.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
โข Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at a 4 stars Hotel, located in the center.
Day 6: Saranda - Gjirokastรซr
Stop At: Butrint National Park, SH81, Butrint Albania
Visiting the Butrint National Park, that is spectacular archaeological site and the National Park of Albania that occupies a beautiful and small peninsula.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Blue Eye, Albania
Drive to Syri i Kalter, or the Blue Eye. This natural spring of unknown depth produces ice cold water even in the height of summer.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Skenduli House, Rruga Sokaku i Te Mareve, Gjirokaster Albania
Driving to Gjirokastra. Visiting the โSkenduliโ House.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Ismail Kadare's House, Rruga Fato Berberi 16, Gjirokaster Albania
The house of the world-famous Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare, has been turned into a museum.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Gjirokaster Castle, Gjirokaster Albania
The National Folklore Festival is held once every five years in Gjirokastรซr. Visit the famous Castle, the largest one in Albania, that dominates the town and overlooks the strategically important route along the river valley.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Gjirokastra bazaar, Rruga Gjin Bue Shpata, Gjirokastรซr, Albania
The Old Bazaar in Gjirokastra, called by locals โQafa e Pazaritโ, makes up the centre of the Old Town. The history of Bazaar dates back to the 17th century.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Gjirokaster, Gjirokaster, Gjirokaster County
Dinner with folk show performance and folk lessons with dancers and musicians from nearby areas.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
โข Dinner
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 7: Gjirokastรซr - Tirana - Transfer
Stop At: Tirana, Tirana, Tirana County
Driving from Gjirokastra to Tirana, and transfer to the Rinas airport or Durrรซs Port or to any other Hotel in Tirana.
Duration: 3 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 1: Pick up - Tirana
Stop At: Tirana, Tirana, Tirana County
Pickup from Tirana International Airport or Durrรซs Port or any Hotel in Tirana and driving to the hotel. After check-in, free time.
Duration: 18 hours
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight at a 4 stars Hotel, located in the center.
Day 2: Tirana - Durrรซs - Krujรซ
Stop At: Muzeu Historik Kombetar, Skenderbej Square Boulevard Zogu I, Tirana 1001 Albania
We discover Albania's capital city on a 3-hour walking tour with a local guide. See Tirana's disintegrating soviet-era buildings, modern-day building projects and proud historic monuments, all side-by-side. We will visit the National History Museum.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Skanderbeg Square, At the center of Tirana, Tirana Albania
The Skanderbeg Square (Albanian: Sheshi Skรซnderbej) is the main plaza in the centre of Tirana.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Et`hem Bey Mosque, Sheshi Skenderbej, Tirana 1001 Albania
The Hadji Et'hem Bey Mosque is a mosque in Tirana, Albania. Closed under communist rule, the mosque reopened as a house of worship in 1991.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Clock Tower, Sheshi Skenderbej next to Et`hem Bey Mosque, Tirana Albania
The Tirana Clock Tower began to be built by Haxhi Et'hem Beu in 1822.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Tirana Castle, Shรซtitorja Murat Toptani, Tiranรซ, Albania
Fortress of Justinian or simply known as Tirana Castle is a castle in Tirana, Albania. Its history dates back before 1300 and is a remnant from the Byzantine-era.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Tanners' Bridge, Bulevardi Jean D'Arc, Tirana Albania
Tanners' Bridge is a stone footbridge of the 18th-century Ottoman period.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Pyramid of Tirana, Bulevardi Dรซshmorรซt e Kombit, Tiranรซ 1010, Albania
The Pyramid of Tirana is a structure and former museum of the ex-dictator.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Blloku, Tirana Albania
Residential Blloku is an upscale nightlife and shopping hotspot, with hip bars and cafes, and trendy global restaurants alongside luxury boutiques. During the era of Communist rule, it was a closed-off precinct for the party elite, and the villa of long-ruling dictator Enver Hoxha still stands.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Durres Archaeological Museum, Rruga Taulantia, Durres Albania
Drive to Durres and visit the Durrรซs Archaeological Museum established in 1951, the largest in the country, including Durrรซs prehistoric, archaic, classical, and civic Illyrian periods, extending to the 1st century.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Durres Castle, Durres Albania
Durrรซs Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Durrรซsit) is the fortified old city of Durrรซs, enclosed by city walls built in the late 5th century, and repaired and reinforced in the Middle Ages and early modern periods.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Durres Amphitheatre, Rruga Kalase, Durres Albania
Roman Amphitheatre of Durrรซs built after the 2nd century B.C remains one of the most majestic of the ancient world and one of ten most beautiful Roman amphitheatres.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Venetian Tower, Rruga Anastas Durrsaku, Durrรซs, Albania
Durres castle was reinforced with several guard towers by the Republic of Venice
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Kruja Castle, Near Tirana, Kruje 1501 Albania
Driving to Kruja. Viziting Kruja Castle, that was historically one of the most important defensive strongholds in the country.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: National Museum George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, Kruja Castle, Rruga Kala, Krujรซ 1501, Albania
Visit to Skanderbeg Museum, dedicated to the most celebrated of all Albanian heroes.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Ethnographic Museum of Kruja, Fortress of Kruja, Kruje 1501 Albania
Ethnographic Museum that presents the story of Albanian customs and traditions throughout the centuries.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Old Bazaar (Pazari i Vjeter), Rruga Albanopolis, Kruje 1501 Albania
A walk and shopping tour inside the fantastic Old Medieval Bazar.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Kruje, Kruje, Durres County
Dinner with live folk performance. The music band and the group of dancers performing and giving instructions and lessons for some of the Albanian folk songs and dances from Kruja.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
โข Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at a 4 stars Hotel, located in the center.
Day 3: Krujรซ - Berat
Stop At: Berat Castle, Rruga Mihal Komnena, Berat 5001 Albania
Driving to Berat. Being famous for its white-washed houses with many windows giving the nickname โtown of a thousand windowsโ or also known as โOne above another Windowsโ. Visit to the Berat Castle, also referred to as the Citadel of Berat and castle quarter, which is a fortress overlooking the town.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: National Iconographic Museum Onufri, Located in the Inner Part of Saint Mary Church in Berat Castel, Berat Albania
Visit the "Onufri" Museum dedicated to Byzantine art and iconography, located inside the castle.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: National Ethnographic Museum Berat, Lagja 13 Shtatori Mangalem, Berat Albania
Visit the Ethnographic Museum that contains a diversity of everyday objects from throughout history of the city.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Lead Mosque Berat, Rruga Gaqi Gjika, Berat, Albania
Visit the Lead Mosque, a 16th-century historical mosque.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Berat, Berat, Berat County
Dinner folk show performance and folk dancing with group & dancers from Berati area.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
โข Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at a 4 stars Hotel, located in the center
Day 4: Berat - Apollonia - Vlorรซ
Stop At: Ardenica Monastery, Ardenice Albania
Drive to the magnificent little monastery of Ardenica, an Orthodox church, built by the Byzantine emperor Andronicus in 1282.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Apollonia Archaeological Park, Pojan Albania
Driving to Apollonia. Visiting the Apollonia Archaeological Park, which contains artifacts unearthed nearby from the ancient town of Apollonia, flourished during the 4th century AD.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Zvernec Monastery, Zvernec Island, Vlore Albania
Driving to Zvernec. Visiting the St. Mary's Monastery, a medieval Byzantine church in Zvรซrnec Island inside the Narta Lagoon close to Vlorรซ.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Vlore, Vlore, Vlore County
Continue to a coastal city of Vlora, the second biggest city port in Albania.
Dinner with Folklore from Vlora area songs and dances where we will be taught how to dance by the folk group master.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
โข Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at a 4 stars Hotel, located in the center.
Day 5: Vlorรซ - Llogara - Saranda
Stop At: Llogara National Park, Llogara National Park, Vlore County
Drive to Llogara Pass, in Llogara Park, that is an evergreen forested area, extending up to 1800m high above the sea level.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Ali Pasha Castle, Sh8 Porto Palermo, Porto Palermo Beach, Vlore Albania
Drive along the amazing Southern Riviera with idyllic and breath-taking spots along this craggy coast. Stop and visit Porto Palermo Castle, a 19th-century fortress, also known as the Castle of Ali Pasha.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Borsh, Borsh, Vlore County
Continue to Borshi village and its water spring.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Saranda, Saranda, Vlore County
Arriving in Saranda. During dinner, we will have polyphonic songs performed. Albanian iso-polyphony is a traditional part of Albanian folk.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
โข Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at a 4 stars Hotel, located in the center.
Day 6: Saranda - Gjirokastรซr
Stop At: Butrint National Park, SH81, Butrint Albania
Visiting the Butrint National Park, that is spectacular archaeological site and the National Park of Albania that occupies a beautiful and small peninsula.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Blue Eye, Albania
Drive to Syri i Kalter, or the Blue Eye. This natural spring of unknown depth produces ice cold water even in the height of summer.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Skenduli House, Rruga Sokaku i Te Mareve, Gjirokaster Albania
Driving to Gjirokastra. Visiting the โSkenduliโ House.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Ismail Kadare's House, Rruga Fato Berberi 16, Gjirokaster Albania
The house of the world-famous Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare, has been turned into a museum.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Gjirokaster Castle, Gjirokaster Albania
The National Folklore Festival is held once every five years in Gjirokastรซr. Visit the famous Castle, the largest one in Albania, that dominates the town and overlooks the strategically important route along the river valley.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Gjirokastra bazaar, Rruga Gjin Bue Shpata, Gjirokastรซr, Albania
The Old Bazaar in Gjirokastra, called by locals โQafa e Pazaritโ, makes up the centre of the Old Town. The history of Bazaar dates back to the 17th century.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Gjirokaster, Gjirokaster, Gjirokaster County
Dinner with folk show performance and folk lessons with dancers and musicians from nearby areas.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
โข Dinner
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 7: Gjirokastรซr - Tirana - Transfer
Stop At: Tirana, Tirana, Tirana County
Driving from Gjirokastra to Tirana, and transfer to the Rinas airport or Durrรซs Port or to any other Hotel in Tirana.
Duration: 3 hours
Meals included:
โข Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
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