Day trip of Berat / 26.10.2019

Highlights: 

Visit Berat’s Unesco quarters: Kala, Mangalem, Gorica

Visit Berat’s Ethnographic Museum

Visit Berat’s Icons Museum

Visit the Byzantine churches and Ottoman mosques

Summary: Meet at your hotel in Tirana for a full-day excursion to Berat, one of Albania's most historic, scenic and well-preserved medieval towns.  Berat, ‘the town of a thousand windows’. Nowadays a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Berat was spared architectural ‘modernization’ during the communist era and retains its ancient charms. Picturesque white houses sprawl up the hillside higgledy-piggledy towards its remarkable citadel which houses no fewer than 8 medieval churches, including one with a fine collection of icons, the portraits of the saints of the Orthodox Church. There is also an Ethnographic Museum in an 18th century house with displays of furniture, clothing, kitchen equipment and traditional crafts. Enjoy the old architecture of the town, as well as the striking Citadel overlooking the river, and wander over to the old Christian quarter across the river for a visit. Visit Berat's numerous ruined mosques and medieval Orthodox churches or stop in at the Onufri National Museum, located in the inner part of “Saint Mary Church” in Castle of Berat.

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Included: 

Transportation

Guide

Lunch in local restaurant

Entrance fees

Not included:

Anything else not specified in the “includes” section

Dajti Mountain daytrip / 26.10.2019

Summary: Just 25km east of Tirana is Mt Dajti National Park. It is the most accessible mountain in the country, and many locals go there to escape the city rush and have a spit-roast lamb lunch. A sky-high, Austrian-made cable car, Dajti Express, takes 15 minutes to make the scenic trip (almost) to the top (1611m).