Albania itinerary, day by day

A young capital that painted its grey blocks in bright colours after communism fell. Its bunkers now hold museums, and a cable car climbs Mount Dajti above the city.

• Bunk'Art and the National History Museum, guidedHalf day · from €15

  A nuclear bunker of the communist era turned into a museum of the regime, then the whole national story on Skanderbeg Square.

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• The Dajti Ekspres cable car1h · from €10

  A quarter of an hour up Mount Dajti, for a view over the whole city and, on a clear day, out to the sea.

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The 'city of a thousand windows', its white Ottoman houses stacked up the hillside below a castle where people still live. UNESCO-listed since 2008.

• The citadel and Mangalem, guided2h · from €12

  The lived-in castle on the hill, then down through the Mangalem quarter, whose rows of windows gave the town its nickname.

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• Berat wine tasting1h30 · from €20

  The hills around Berat have made wine for centuries. A family cellar and its local grape varieties, poured by the people who grow them.

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A young capital that painted its grey blocks in bright colours after communism fell. Its bunkers now hold museums, and a cable car climbs Mount Dajti above the city.

• Bunk'Art and the National History Museum, guidedHalf day · from €15

  A nuclear bunker of the communist era turned into a museum of the regime, then the whole national story on Skanderbeg Square.

  Book on GetYourGuide →
• The Dajti Ekspres cable car1h · from €10

  A quarter of an hour up Mount Dajti, for a view over the whole city and, on a clear day, out to the sea.

  Book on GetYourGuide →

A remote village in the high valleys of the Accursed Mountains, with waterfalls, old stone towers and the Blue Eye spring an hour or two upstream.

• Hike to the Blue Eye of ThethFull day · from €12

  A walk up the valley to Syri i Kaltër, a deep blue pool below a waterfall. Not to be confused with the spring of the same name near Sarandë.

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• The Theth to Valbona trek, guidedFull day · from €40

  The classic crossing of the Albanian Alps over the Valbona Pass, six to eight hours on foot.

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The 'city of a thousand windows', its white Ottoman houses stacked up the hillside below a castle where people still live. UNESCO-listed since 2008.

• The citadel and Mangalem, guided2h · from €12

  The lived-in castle on the hill, then down through the Mangalem quarter, whose rows of windows gave the town its nickname.

  Book on GetYourGuide →
• Berat wine tasting1h30 · from €20

  The hills around Berat have made wine for centuries. A family cellar and its local grape varieties, poured by the people who grow them.

  Book on GetYourGuide →

The far south of the Albanian coast: coves of clear water, small islands just offshore, and the ruins of Butrint, a Greek then Roman city, by a lagoon nearby.

• Boat to the Ksamil isletsHalf day · from €25

  A short crossing to the small islands off Ksamil, for a swim in water clear to the bottom.

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• Butrint archaeological parkHalf day · from €15

  A Greek, Roman and Venetian city in the woods by a lagoon, with its theatre, baptistery and walls. UNESCO-listed since 1992.

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A young capital that painted its grey blocks in bright colours after communism fell. Its bunkers now hold museums, and a cable car climbs Mount Dajti above the city.

• Bunk'Art and the National History Museum, guidedHalf day · from €15

  A nuclear bunker of the communist era turned into a museum of the regime, then the whole national story on Skanderbeg Square.

  Book on GetYourGuide →
• The Dajti Ekspres cable car1h · from €10

  A quarter of an hour up Mount Dajti, for a view over the whole city and, on a clear day, out to the sea.

  Book on GetYourGuide →