· Today is a learning experience of some of the folk songs and dances

· There will be Albanian folk dance in the morning and then a traditional lunch.

· After lunch we take a tour of the major sites and visit the National Historic Museum.

· Dinner at a local restaurant.

· Overnight in Tirana.

· Today we will continue learning some of the Albanian folk songs and dances.

· During the break of the middle part of the

· day visit of the National Gallery of Arts and then lunch on your own.

· After lunch you will return to continue the learning process of Albanian folk dances.

· Dinner at a local restaurant with live music,dancing.

· Overnight in Tirana.

· Continue to Elbasan

· Ethnographical museum located in a traditional house will be visited.

· Continue to Pogradec at the shore of Lake Ohrid.

· We will visit the Drilon natural oasis and the Villa of the ex-Albanian dictator.

· Have lunch in a family run restaurant with home cooking (optional).

· After a walk around Drilon with lush vegetation we depart for Korca,

· where the first school in Albania was founded and is now a museum of Education.

· The Han I Elbasanit is one of the remaining inns from the Ottoman period.

· Traditional dinner with famous Korca town serenades music at traditional restaurant.

Overnight in Korca

· Visiting Voskopoja with a monastery and more than 26 churches, now a rural.

· The region is one of the centres of the Vlach or Aruman people,

with their own language and traditions.

· A family lunch in Voskopoja (optional) and visit to church.

· Return to Korca where dinner is in the traditional restaurant, accompanied by a Saze playing and singing group from Korça.

· Saze is a clarinet type instrument widespread in Albania, but especially in the south eastern part.

· Overnight in Korca.

· From Korca to Permet along the beautiful plain of Korca.

· The spectacular Vjosa canyons accompany us from Leskovik to Permet,

· which is the “Mecca” of Albanian Tosk music with many famous singers.

· Lunch is optional at a restaurant in Leskovik.

· Dinner in Permet in a musical affair with performances in local music group.

· Overnight in Permet.

· Short walk of 20-30 minutes in one of the villages of Permet.

· Leusa is a traditional village made of stone.

· We will visit the church and a local family and their authentic way of life.

· having dinner at local restaurant enjoy traditional music.

· Overnight in Permet.

· Today’s travel takes us through the breathtaking Kelcyra.

· To the town of Gjirokastra - a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

· It is also the place where Albania’s national Folkloric Festival

· The dwelling houses have the form of medieval towers.

· The town was besieged and captured by the Ottomans in the 15th cent.

· Traditional dinner will be accompanied by a polyphonic Group from Gjirokastra.

· The phenomenon of Albanian folk iso-polyphony has been proclaimed

· by UNESCO a "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity".

· Overnight in Gjirokastra.

· Depart to Berat, a town more than 2400 years old.

· Berat is situated at the foot of Tomorri Mountain and on the shores of River Osum.

· “town of a thousand windows” with narrow and stone paved streets.

· Visit the Fortress, Onufri Museum and some small old churches remaining.

· In the downtown we visit the Leaden Mosque, the King's Mosque, the Bachelor's Mosque and the Alveti Tekke.

· We also pay a visit at a local house.

· Dinner is a traditional feast at Mangalemi with folk musicians.

· Overnight in Berat.

· Drive to Kruja, the centre of Albanian resistance against the Turks

· under our national hero Scanderbeg.

· Called as “Protector of Christianity” given by the Pope.

· We visit one of the most beautiful ethnographical museums of Albania, packed with lots of folk dresses, utensils, furniture etcetera.

· Have traditional lunch in Kruja Castle (optional).

· In the afternoon return to Tirana for a driven tour of the capital.

· Have dinner in local restaurant where Albanian chefs show their skills.

· Overnight in Tirana.

· After breakfast relax until time of transfer to the airport.