Eastern Europe Budget Bird Watching Tours & Packages Tours & Trips

Highlights

• Explore the remote northern reaches of Albania and take one of the world’s best boat trips with a cruise through the mountainous corridors of Lake Koman
• Experience daily life in the Valbona Valley with a stay at a local guesthouse. Clink glasses with the locals in the village and hike the rugged valley passes.
• Sail across the blue waters of Lake Ohrid, one of Europe's oldest lakes. No wonder North Macedonia and Albania share this beautiful attraction – nobody would want to let it go.
• Kososvo is rich in history and contrasts. Step back in time and learn about the infamous Battle of Kosovo on a day trip to the Field of Blackbirds, before embracing the modern culture thriving in Prishtina, Europe’s youngest capital.
• Lose yourself in Tirana, the Albanian capital full of a revitalised urban energy, and partake in the local's favourite pastime: drinking coffee and people-watching.

Highlights

• Engage in a vital brown bear conservation project
• Join daily bear-tracking walks with a brown bear expert
• Hunker down in a hide to observe wild brown bears
• Spot other elusive mammals, birds, butterflies, reptiles and rare orchids
• Explore remote landscapes in the Rodopi Mountains

Highlights

• Our Peaks of the Balkans trekking and cultural adventure takes us to the border triangle area of Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro where a new International Peace Park has been established.
• Along our way we meet with various local leaders who join us as special guests to enrich our understanding and appreciation for this part of the world.
• At the heart of this grand adventure is a difficult and extremely rewarding trek in the Dinaric Alps.
• The trek is bookmarked on each side by visits to fascinating areas in Montenegro (including a day of lake kayaking) and Albania.

Highlights

• Bike, hike and ride a horse through remote villages and rugged countryside full of haystacks, horse-drawn wagons and grazing dairy cattle.
• Visit two UNESCO World Heritage Sites – the walled city of Sighişoara and the Transylvanian villages with fortified churches.
• Meet and interact with locals who still make their living as beekeepers, blacksmiths, carpenters, shepherds and weavers.

Highlights

• Visit the fascinating Altai Mountains
• Visit the border zones with Mongolia
• Drive to the mountain Tabozhok along the Tabozhok river valley.
• Have birding in the coniferous forest on the slopes of Tiyakhtii Mountain at Seminskiy