Small Groups
Every tour we run is a small-group departure: never more than 18 guests, and usually fewer. Air-conditioned vans, modern boats, and a local guide who grew up here.
Most departures run with 6 to 12 guests. Boat tours are capped lower, at 10.
Born-and-raised guides, not a rotating cast of subcontractors.
Fixed dates each month, so solo travellers and couples can book a place without chartering the whole tour.
Day trips and multi-day adventures, all run in small groups. Prices are per person.
Best SellerDeparts from Vlora Marina
Sail into Albania's only marine national park: the military island of Sazan, the cliffs of Karaburun, and swim stops in water clear enough to count pebbles.
Boat TourHotel pickup in Durrës & Golem
A full day on the southern coast from your Durrës or Golem hotel: Sazan Island, the Haxhi Ali pirate cave and the Karaburun beaches, all by speedboat.
Boat TourDeparts from Himarë
A small speedboat, a local skipper, and the beaches of the Riviera you can't walk to: Gjipe Canyon, the Pirates' Cave and swim stops along the Riviera.
HistoryDay trip from Tirana or Durrës
Walk the white Ottoman lanes of Albania's most beautiful town, climb to a castle people still live in, and taste wine that's been made here for 2,400 years.
Day TripDay trip from Saranda or Ksamil
Two southern icons in one day: the stone city of Gjirokastër with its hilltop fortress, and the Blue Eye, a 50-metre-deep spring of vivid blue water.
NatureHalf-day trip from Tirana
Forty minutes from central Tirana there's a turquoise reservoir framed by limestone cliffs. One short, steep trail climbs to the viewpoint over the lake.
AdventureStarts and ends in Tirana or Shkodra
The classic Theth-to-Valbona crossing of the Accursed Mountains, with guesthouse nights, home-cooked dinners and the Komani Lake ferry, fully organised.
Day TripDay trip from Saranda
Ancient ruins in a lagoon-side forest, then an afternoon on Ksamil's white-sand islands.
Multi-DayTirana → Albanian Alps → Berat → Riviera → Saranda
One week, one country, every landscape: alpine valleys, UNESCO towns, the Llogara Pass and the Riviera, with a local guide-driver and family hotels.
AdventureDay trip from Durrës, Golem or Qerret
Wade up a limestone slot canyon where the walls close to arm's width and the water runs cold all summer, then picnic on the shore of the Devoll reservoir.
NatureDay trip from Durrës, Golem or Qerret
The turquoise reservoir under Gamti Mountain, straight from the beach hotels rather than Tirana, with Preza Castle and its Adriatic view on the way home.
HistoryDay trip from Durrës, Golem or Qerret
The UNESCO town where Ottoman houses stack up the hillside window over window, with a swim and a lunch stop in the Belsh lake district on the way through.
NatureDay trip from Tirana, Durrës or Shkodra
The ferry up the flooded Drin gorge, then a speedboat into the Shala, a river cold and clear enough to see the bed at three metres. A long, very good day.
NatureDay trip from Shkodra
The same gorge ferry and the same cold green river, minus four hours of driving. The version to take if you are already in the north.
HistoryHalf-day trip from Tirana
Forty minutes from Tirana, the fortress where Skanderbeg held off three Ottoman sieges, and the last working Ottoman bazaar in Albania on the lane below it.
HistoryDay trip from Durrës, Golem or Qerret
Skanderbeg's fortress, the last Ottoman bazaar in Albania, and the cave shrine on the ridge above the town, with a traditional lunch in between.
HistoryHalf day from Durrës, Golem or Tirana
The largest Roman amphitheatre in the Balkans sits under an apartment block in the middle of town, and most people on the beach two streets away walk past it.
AdventureHalf day from Tirana, Durrës or Golem
A small hilltop castle twenty minutes from Tirana, a 350-metre zipline across the Erzen valley, and an hour on a quad through the olive terraces below it.
HistoryStarts in central Tirana
Three hours on foot through a capital that has been Ottoman, Italian, Stalinist and something new since 1991, with a guide who grew up through the change.
Day TripDay trip from Durrës, Golem or Qerret
The capital on foot in the morning, then fifteen minutes in a cable car up to 1,050 metres for lunch with the whole plain and the Adriatic below you.
Day TripStarts in central Tirana
Twenty kilometres of the capital that a walking tour cannot reach: the artificial lake, the Grand Park, the eastern hills and back through Blloku.
Day TripEvening from Tirana, Durrës or Golem
A long dinner at a village house outside the city with live iso-polyphony, a folk dance group, more raki than is sensible, and vines below the terrace.
Day TripDay trip from Tirana, Durrës or Golem
Albania's far south in one long day: the Blue Eye spring, the Ksamil islands and Saranda's waterfront, without moving hotel or losing two nights to the drive.
Day TripDay trip from Tirana, Durrës or Golem
The full southern sweep with a boat hour built in: the Vjosa river, the Blue Eye, an island boat trip off Ksamil, and Saranda before the drive home.
NatureHalf day from Saranda or Ksamil
The spring in the late afternoon when the tour buses have gone, then the castle terrace above Saranda for the sun going down behind Corfu.
Best SellerDay trip from Saranda or Ksamil
Four things worth the drive, done in one day from a Saranda base: the spring, the Greek and Roman city, the islands, and the castle at sunset.
Boat TourDeparts from Ksamil
The islands you can see from the beach, plus the four you cannot, on a small boat with swim stops, snorkels and no schedule to speak of.
Best SellerDeparts from Saranda port
Seven stops up the coast north of Saranda: sea caves, a turtle-shaped grotto, and beaches with no road to them. Umbrellas and drinks included.
Boat TourDeparts from Saranda port
Three places instead of seven, on a boat that takes fourteen people. Longer in the water, shorter on the engine, and back in time for a late lunch ashore.
Boat TourDeparts from Saranda marina
The same coast as the group boats, on a yacht with a sun deck, a swim platform and sixteen people instead of sixty. Lunch and drinks on board.
Boat TourDeparts from Himarë port
A full day covering the Riviera north and south of Himarë: ten or more stops, the Pirates' Cave, Gjipe canyon beach, and lunch at anchor.
AdventureDeparts from Vlora Marina
Down the far side of the Karaburun peninsula to the cave that glows blue from below and the bay where Roman sailors carved their names into the cliffs.
Day TripDay trip from Saranda
Greece is thirty minutes across the strait. The fast ferry, the Venetian old town, Paleokastritsa, and back to Albania in time for dinner.
AdventureDay trip from Përmet or Gjirokastër
Rafting the last undammed river in Europe, through the Këlcyrë gorge, finishing at the Ottoman thermal baths at Benjë.
AdventureDay trip from Berat or Çorovodë
Twenty-six kilometres of canyon with walls up to 150 metres, run by raft in spring and by tube in the low water of high summer.
NatureDay trip from Berat
The canyon from the rim and from inside it on foot, then a walk through chestnut woods to a waterfall that drops into a pool cold enough to hurt.
AdventureDay trip from Tirana or Durrës
The Albanian Alps in a single day: a short stop in Theth village, then a four-hour hike up the Nderlysa valley to the cold turquoise Blue Eye of Theth.
AdventureDay trip from Shkodra
The full Theth day from Shkodra: the Blue Eye of Theth hike first, then the church, lunch and the lock-in tower, and a forest walk to the Grunas waterfall.
AdventureDay trip from Shkodra
The wide white riverbed of the Valbona under the highest peaks in the Alps, reached by the Komani ferry, with a guided walk up towards the pass.
AdventureDeparts from Durrës or Golem
Two hours on a quad through the pine hills of Kallmi above Durrës bay, past Cold War bunkers, down to a beach the hotel strip never reaches.
AdventureHalf day from Tirana
The rough road to Bovilla that stops rental cars is what this trip is for: three hours of riding through the mountain villages to the lakeshore and back.
AdventureDeparts from Saranda or Ksamil
Off-road to the Blue Eye through olive groves and the Bistrica riverbed, with a river crossing on the way and the spring at the end of it.
Day TripDay trip from Tirana, Durrës or Golem
Across the mountains into North Macedonia for one of the oldest lakes in the world, the monastery at its springs, and the old town above the water.
Day TripDay trip from Tirana, Durrës or Golem
Europe's youngest country in a day: the Ottoman river town of Prizren under its fortress, and Pristina, a young, loud capital still deciding what it looks like.
Day TripDay trip from Tirana, Durrës or Shkodra
Up the Adriatic into Montenegro for the walled town of Kotor at the end of its fjord-like bay, Budva's old town, and the island hotel of Sveti Stefan.
HistoryDay trip from Tirana, Durrës or Golem
The northern capital: Rozafa Castle over three rivers, the old town, the Marubi photography archive, and lunch on the largest lake in the Balkans.
Day TripHalf day from Berat
Two family wineries in the hills around Berat, pouring grapes you have probably never tasted: Shesh i Zi, Kallmet and Puls, with food from the farm.
Day TripHalf day from Tirana, Durrës or Golem
A morning in a farm kitchen in the hills, learning to roll byrek pastry by hand, make fërgesë and tavë kosi, then eating all of it at a long table outside.
Multi-DayStarts and ends in Tirana or Shkodra
Both Alpine valleys without the pass crossing: a night in a Theth guesthouse, the Blue Eye hike, then round by road and ferry to Valbona and home down Komani.
Multi-DayStarts in Tirana, ends in Tirana or Saranda
The two UNESCO stone towns, the Blue Eye, Ksamil and the Riviera road over Llogara, at a pace that lets you sleep in the places you visit.
Multi-DayStarts and ends in Tirana
Kruja, the Komani gorge, Berat, Gjirokastër and the Riviera in five days: the shape of the country, north to south, with hotels and a guide sorted.
Travelling as a private group?
Any tour here can also run privately for your own group, from a couple to fifty people. Tell us your dates and we'll build it around you.