7-Day Albania Highlights

Private airport pickup. Settle into your boutique hotel in the Blloku district. Evening free to explore Tirana’s vibrant café scene and the colorful buildings along Rruga Murat Toptani.

Morning transfer to Berat (~2.5 hours), the ‘City of a Thousand Windows.’ Check into a restored Ottoman-era boutique hotel. Afternoon exploring the cobblestone streets of Mangalem and Gorica quarters.

Full day in Berat. Visit the castle citadel — Illyrian foundations from the 4th century BC, where families still live among Byzantine churches and Ottoman mosques. Explore the Onufri Museum’s 16th-century icon collection. Evening dinner overlooking the Osum River.

Transfer south (~4 hours) to Gjirokastër, Albania’s second UNESCO ‘museum city.’ Check into a traditional stone tower-house hotel. Afternoon exploring the Ottoman bazaar and the Zekate House, the finest example of Gjirokastër’s tower-house architecture.

Morning visit to the Blue Eye Spring (Syri i Kalter) — a crystal-clear karst spring of stunning blue. Continue south to Ksamil (~1.5 hours total). Arrive at your beachfront villa. Afternoon at the beach — crystal-clear water and the Ksamil islands visible offshore.

Morning visit to Butrint National Park (UNESCO World Heritage Site) — 2,500 years of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine ruins surrounded by lagoons. Afternoon beach time or an optional speedboat tour around the islands.

Morning at leisure. Two departure options: (1) transfer to Sarandë port for the ferry to Corfu (30–75 minutes) — fly home from Corfu or continue to the Greek islands. (2) Return transfer to Tirana airport (~4.5 hours, with a scenic lunch stop). We arrange either option.