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CULINARY TRIP TO ALBANIA

Tirana International Airport, Shkodër, Albania, Berat, Vlore, Borsh, Sarande, Gjirokaster, Permet, Elbasan, Lezhë, Tirana, Tirana International Airport,
Duration

10 day(s)

Tour type

Regular

Group size

20-40 people

Physical Level

moderate

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Tour Overview

This 10-day journey across Albania offers an immersive experience into the country’s rich culture, history, nature, and traditional cuisine. Traveling from the northern highlands to the southern coast and into the heart of the country’s most emblematic towns, the tour invites guests to discover Albania beyond the surface — through its people, food, landscapes, and heritage.

Highlights include visits to ancient castles, UNESCO heritage sites, artisanal cheese dairies, wine and raki cellars, and breathtaking natural wonders such as the Blue Eye spring and the Albanian Riviera. Along the way, participants will enjoy carefully curated meals featuring local specialties unique to each region — from the mountain pies of Voskopoja to the seafood of Saranda and the slow food of Lezha.

This all-inclusive program combines:

  • History, architecture, and cultural heritage

  • Moderate walking and light exploration

  • Culinary discoveries and regional tastings

  • Diverse landscapes and authentic hospitality

An ideal tour for travelers seeking a genuine, flavorful, and memorable journey into the soul of Albania.


Activities

Tour Features

Duration
10 day(s)

Max Group Size
20-40 people

Tour Code
CTTA

Departure Type
request

Tour Category
Culinary, Wine, Food & Tasting

Guiding Method
Fully guided

Operated In

Age Requirement
0 - 0

Tirana International Airport

Pickup Time:

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Tirana International Airport

Dropoff Time:

Highlights
Explore UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Berat, Butrint, and Gjirokastra

Itinerary

Day 1

 Pick up from the Tirana International Airport and driving to the hotel.

After accommodation, free time.

 Optional visiting the National Historical Museum.

 19.00 Dinner at the restaurant.

 Must try them:Egg and cheese pie, baked snipe with peas, ‘hashure’ wheat and nuts dessert, fruits, Stela beer.

 Overnight in Tirana.

Day 2

08: 00 After breakfast to the hotel driving to Shkodra, in the North-West of Albania.

 10:00 Arriving in Shkodra and visiting the castle and the Marubi Phototheke.

 12: 30 Driving to Malesi e Madhe.

 13.30 Arriving and visiting a artisanal cheese diary.

 Knowing the process of fermenting the cheese.

 Tasting the different sort of cheese. Only in this region

we can taste spicy cheese called ‘Mishanika’ blended with herbs, garlic,prunes, etc.

 Also the yougurt from the goat milk is lovely.

 14:30 Lunch with the tradition dishes.

 Must try them:Season salad, ‘Kacamak’, polenta dish, ‘Ferlik’ roasted sheep meat, ‘Fli’ multi-layed foglio pie filled with butter

and milk, and thana raki, tradition sweet and season fruits, baked chestnuts and dried plums. Finish with a Turkish coffee.

 15:30 A short tracking to the village.

 16:00 Driving back to Shkodra.

 17:00 Visiting the lake and the fish market.

 18:00 Free time .

 19:30 Dinner at the restaurant dressed

salad, cabbage soup, Shkodra baked ‘Carp’ fish with sauce, onions and herbs, sweet with caramelized quince and dates fruits, white wine of local cantine and finishing with an Italian expresso and cognac liquor.

 21:00 Accomodation in Shkodra.

Day 3

Day 3 - Shkodra - Berat

 07:00 Breakfast at the hotel.

 08:00 Driving to Berat.

 Short stops in the trajectory.

 11:00 Visting the castle and the Onufri museum.

 12:30 Lunch at the restaurant .

 Must try them:Cheese and olive salad, filled paprika with rice, leeks pie, kukureci made red wine.

 Finishing with fernet, nuts-made digestive drink.

 14:00 Visiting the Ethnografical Museum and the Lead Mosque.

 16:00 Driving to Kutalli.

 16:30 Visiting the ‘Cobo’ wine cantine. Degustating the different sort of wines and spirits, walking in the grapeyard.

 17:30 Driving back to Berat.

 18:00 Accomodation in the hotel.

 20:00 Dinner at the restaurant.

 Must try them:Spinach and lemon soup, fried-eggs cauliflower, river ale dippened in apple vinegar and tomato sauce, ‘shendetli’ almond baked cake, home made white wine, iced-pomegranate juice, dried apples and pear –made digestive liquor.

 21:30 Accomodation in Berat.

Day 4

07:00 Breakfast at the hotel.

 08:00 Driving to Apollonia.

 09:30 Visiting the Apollonia site.

 11:00 Driving to Zvernec.

 12:00 Visiting the monasteries.

 13:30 Lunch at the isle.

 Must try them:Peasant salad, nettles pie, vegetable soup, grilled mullet, oven baked bass, ‘kabuni’ cake, orange and medlar fruits, Norga beer. Finishing with rose tea.

 15:00 Driving to Vlora.

 15:30 Accomodation in the hotel.

 17:00 Visiting the Independence Museum and the Kus-Baba hill.

 18:30 Driving to Kanina hill.

 19:00 Dinner.

 Must try them:Grilled vegetables, peasant bread, marinated olives, mix of young goat meat in broach, ‘Narta’ red wine, lemon-compote, thana fruits, finishing with grape cider.

 20:30 Driving back to Vlora.

 21:00 Accomodation in Vlora

Day 5

 07:00 Breakfast at the hotel.

 08:00 Driving to the Riviera.

 08:30 A coffee break to Llogara pass.

 09:00 Driving down to Borsh.

 10 00 Visiting the Ali Pashe Tepelen castle in Porto Palermo.

 11:00 Driving to Borsh.

 11:30 Visiting the ‘Borshi’ olive oil cantine.

 Degustating the olive oil, the home made wine. .

 12;30 Driving to Saranda.

 13:00 Lunch.

 Must try them:Filled cheese in oven, ‘harapash’ dish, baked common cuttlefish and squid fish with orange juice, apple pie, pompelmous fruit, white wine, finishing with a thana drink.

 14:30 Accomodation in the hotel.

 16:30 Driving to Butrint.

 17:00 Visiting the Butrint amphitheater.

 18:30 Driving to the mussels aquafarm.

 19:00 Visiting the process of breeding the mussels.

 19:30 Dinner.

 Must try them:Mushroom soup, oven-baked mussels, grilled octopus, pita bread, cake, apple, white wine , finishing with orange liquor.

 21:00 Driving back to the hotel.

 21:30 Accomodation in Saranda.

Day 6

07:00 Breakfast in the hotel.

 08:00 Driving to Blue Eye spring.

 08:30 Visiting the spring.

 09:15 Driving to Gjirokastra.

 10:15 Visiting the ‘Skenduli’ and ‘Ismail Kadare’ houses,

 12:30 Visiting the castle.

 13:30 Lunch in the restaurant.

 Must try them: ‘Qehai’ regional pie. ‘Qifqi’ spicy meat balls, marinated lamb ribbons, cheesecake, dessert, quince fruit, mulberry

raki drink, finishing with Turkish coffee.

 15:00 Accomodation in the hotel.

 18:30 Visiting the anti-atomic bunker, a communist era underground fortification.

 19:30 Dinner at the restaurant.

 Must try them:Chicken soup, grilled river trout fish, home made white wine, ‘kompekai’ dessert, fruits, finishing with plum raki drink.

 21:00 Accomodation in Gjirokastra.

Day 7

Day 7 - Gjirokastra - Permet - Voskopoja

 07;00 Breakfast in the hotel.

 08:00 Driving to Permet.

 A short break at Kelcyra gorge.

 10:00 Visiting a cheese diary.

 11:00 Visiting a wine and raki cantine and degustating the drinks.

 12:30 Lunch in the restaurant.

 Must try them:Pumpkin soup, veal chop with dried tomatoes and rosmary, different vegetable compotes, red wine, finishing with juniper raki drink.

 14:00 Driving to Voskopoja.

 18:00 Accomodation in the hotel.

 19:00 Dinner in the restaurant.

 Must try them:Beans pie, different vegetables

pickles, partridge poultry filled with nuts, Korca beer, blueberry forest fruits, finishing with kocimare raki.

 20:30 Accomodation in the Voskopoja.

Day 8

07:00 Breakfast in the hotel. Two-laid cabbage foglio pie, soup beans with ham.

 08:00 Driving to Korca.

 09:30 Visiting the ‘Bratko’ museum and the ‘Vangjush Mio’ painting house.

 12:00 Driving to Lin.

 13:30 Visiting the village.

 14:00 Lunch in the restaurant.

 Must try them:Okra dish, oven potatoes, grilled alcoran with spinach and celery, dessert, fruits, white wine, finishing with brandy.

 15:30 Driving to Elbasan.

 17;30 Accomodation in the hotel.

 19:00 Dinner in the restaurant.

 Must try them:Rissotto, ‘Tave kosi’ dish with oven lamb meat, red wine, ‘Ballokume’ dessert, fruits, finishing with Muscat raki .

 21:30 Accomodation in the Elbasan.

Day 9

07:00 Breakfast in the hotel.

 09:00 Driving to Lezha.

 12:00 Visiting the ‘Mrizi i Zanave’ agro-tourism farm.

 12 30 Lunch in the restaurant with only slow-food farm products, tasting the ‘Kallmet’ wine.

 14 00 Driving to Tirana.

 16 00 Accomodation in the hotel.

 17 00 Optional a panoramic tour of the Tirana centre.

 19 00 Dinner in the restaurant.

 Must try them: Filled eggplant, kefta with wine and tomato sauce, chicken porridge, Tirana beer, dessert, fruits, finishing with digestive drink.

 21 00 Accomodation in Tirana.

Day 10

 07 00 Breakfast in the hotel.

 Tirana ‘fergese’ dish with veal livers.

 08 00 Driving to the airport.

 08 30 See-off greetings. End of tour.

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