Tours
As a specialized incoming tour operator in Albania, Albania2Go offers various tours and themed tours (all tailor made up to your wishes) throughout Albania and also to our neighbouring countries, Kosovo and Macedonia. We offer tours from individual request to group tours.
Our specialities are the “out of the ordinary” tours, such as our Hoxha tour, Religious tour, Culinary tour and the home stay to experience the real Albanian way of living. Besides these specialized theme tours, we also offer the general tours, such as the Classic tour and the Grand tour.
All our tours are well designed to provide an unforgettable experience into the Albanian culture, nature, history and the daily life. Our itineraries and the lengths of the tour are flexible, making it easy for you to customize your holiday based on your own interests and time.
Below you will find a preview of our tours:
This classic tour is for people who are interested to discover the culture, the history and the hospitality of Albania. This tour provides access to a variety of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, old towns, beautiful beaches, dramatic mountains and the Albanian Riviera. Visit Albania before mass tourism discovers it!
This tour lasts 7/8 days (tailor-made up to your wishes) and the visits may include:
Tirana – Ardenica– Apollonia– Vlora – Saranda – Butrint – Blue Eye Spring – Gjirokastra – Berat – Tirana – Kruja – Durres
This Grand Albania tour is the longest tour we offer and is for people who are interested to discover the culture, the history and the hospitality of Albania in a more in-depth way by also exploring the South-East of Albania. This tour provides access to a variety of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, old towns, beautiful beaches, dramatic mountains, the Albanian Riviera and hospitable small villages with interaction with the local community. Visit Albania before mass tourism discovers it!
This tour lasts 10/11/12 days (tailor-made up to your wishes) and the visits may include:
Tirana – Durres – Berat – Ardenica – Apollonia – Vlora – Llogara – Dhermi – Porto Palermo – Borsh – Saranda – Butrint – Blue Eye Spring – Gjirokastra – Permet – Voskopoja – Korca – Pogradec – Tushemist – Elbasan – Shkodra – Kruja
This tour is for people interested in the most unknown countries of Europe, Albania and Kosovo (also extendable with visiting Macedonia). Albania just opened up for the rest of the world after a long period under Dictator Enver Hoxha and is for a lot of people an interesting destination to visit, so is Kosovo. This country declared itself independent in 2008 and is the newest country in Europe. Both countries have their uniqueness, Albania with its cultural and historical heritage, beautiful beaches and welcoming people, Kosovo with its interesting history, delicious wines and rich natural resources.
This tour lasts 6 to 10 days (tailor-made up to your wishes) and the visits may include:
Tirana – Ardenica– Apollonia– Vlora – Berat –Kruja – Durres – Prizren – Pristina – Extendable with Skopje and Ohrid.
Communism is the main topic throughout this tour and during your trip you will experience lots of different aspects of that time (the Communism party under the hand of Enver Hoxha was in power from 1944 until 1991) such as the birthplace of the Dictator in Gjirokastra, the high school he went to in Korca, the park with his holiday house in Pogradec, the bar he owned in Tirana, the secret submarine base in Porto Palermo and all the bunkers throughout Albania.
This tour will bring you to the most beautiful and most deserted beaches of the Mediterranean. These beaches have not yet been discovered by the main crowd (even not by all Albanians) and there is a possibility that you will have the whole beach for yourself. Some of these beaches are not reachable by car and you need to have a hike through the mountains, or sail on a boat to arrive to them.
This tour can be booked from 5 days (tailor-made up to your wishes) and it may include the following beaches:
Vlora (Palas and Jal) – Dhermi – Himara (beaches only reachable by boat and Llaman) – Lezha (Rana Hedhun) – Durres (Plazhi i gjeneralit) – Ksamil (Pema e thate) – Saranda (Pasqyrat) – Borsh – Lukove
Albania has a delicious cuisine influenced by the Turkish and Mediterranean cuisine. For people interested in a different kind of taste from grilled meat to in a special way boiled vegetable, this tour will be something for you! We take you to local farms, traditional grill restaurants, fish restaurants, a winery, a beer factory, a cognac factory and at the house of a local family where you can try the real taste of Raki. This tour will let you explore the culinary diversity of Albania.
This tour lasts 4/5/6/7 days (tailor-made up to your wishes) and the visits may include:
Tirana – Berat (traditional restaurant and wine tasting) – Korca (specialities of the region such as qofte, kolloface and lakror and a visit to the factory of Birra Korca) – Pogradec – Durres (Skenderbeu factory) – Shkodra
A fly & drive is a self-driven tour all around Albania. This is ideal for persons who are independent but still want to have the security of booking their car and hotels through a tour operator. We help you with all the organizing of your driven tour through Albania; we will give you a map of Albania and provide you with information about the cities and sites, about the road conditions and about the distances/driving time from city to city. We can create a whole tailor-made trip for you up to your wishes.
The Albanians first appear in the historical record in Byzantine sources of the late 11th century. At this point, they are full Christianized. From the 15th century until the year 1912, Albania is in the hands of the Ottoman Turks where the Islam overshadowed Christianity. In 1969, religions were officially banned in Albania, making the country the first and only constitutionally atheist state ever. Knowing this, would you believe that one of the most devoted Christian “Mother Teresa” was originally Albanian?
After the fall of Communism in 1991, there are three major religions in Albania, namely Islam, Catholic and Orthodox. Nowadays, religion doesn’t play a large role in Albania, making it the thirteenth least religious country in the world.
Knowing this, Albania is an interesting destination to visit if you are interested in the history of religion in Albania, churches and mosques.
This tour lasts 6/7/8 days (tailor-made up to your wishes) and the visits may include:
Tirana (Bektashi) – Ardenica – Apollonia – Berat (mount Tomorri) – Korca – Voskopoja – Ohrid – Tushemisht – Tirana – Kruja (monastery up the mountain) – Saint Anthony Church
This is one of the many fascinating experiences for visitors to Albania, allowing you to get close with the host family and the community that lives in the area. Tucked away between the mountains in the North or on the countryside in the South, home stays in Albania offer you one of the most favoured means by visitors to enjoy and experience the culture, lifestyle and flavours of the land and its people. A home stay is beneficial for both guests and hosts since a host generates some extra income and can experience foreign culture and learn the basic expressions in foreign languages without going abroad. Many of our hosts are very interested in foreign languages and foreign countries and can manage simple, practical conversations. On the other hand, they may be able to give you a guided tour around and if you are eager to learn, they might teach you how to work the fields.
Theth & Shkodra
This tour is for people who are active and who like to get to know the culture of the people in the North of Albania. In this tour you will have through the mountains and surroundings of Thethi and sleep and eat with a local family in one of the old villages houses. We will also visit Shkodra and walk around the ruins of the Rozafa castle with an amazing view all around the lake of Shkodra, the city of Shkodra and the countryside.
Shkodra, Koman Lake & Valbona
This tour is for people who are active and who like to get to know the culture of the people in the North of Albania. During this trip we will travel to Shkodra with a walk around the ruins of the Rozafa castle with its amazing views, we will also take the ferry boat on the Koman Lake where you can enjoy breath-taking views of the scenery of the dramatic mountains and the green hills and we will also visit Valbona, one of the most wonderful natural beauties of Albania where we will have some hikes through the mountains and surroundings.
Tirana, also known as the “colourful capital of Albania” is a relatively new city, although antique monuments and artefacts are discovered all around Tirana. Tirana is the most important political and economic centre of the country. The “Blloku” area (called like this because the villas of the communist elite were here) is the place to be with its trendy bars, great restaurants, cosy pubs, cafes and nightclubs. The former major (also an artist) of Tirana had the great idea to give the old communist style buildings a facelift by painting them in bright colours with abstract patterns.
The offer for City Break Tirana can be combined (up to your wishes) with visiting other cities around Tirana, such as, Kruja, Durres and Berat.
This is a special made theme tour for people interested in Albanian folklore. During this tour you visit some of the highlights of Albania and you will also learn how to dance and sing as a real Albanian! A perfect combination of an unforgettable trip!
This tour lasts 5 to 8 days (tailor-made up to your wishes) and may include:
Folklore dance lessons, polyphonic signing lessons, being part of an Albanian wedding, folklore meeting and folklore dinners in traditional restaurants.
