Agritourism Tours
Agritourism Tours
Experince the Agritourism & Wine tour in Albania
Visit the cheese farms, tease the local meals.
Captivated by the gorgeous scenery and astound at the fantastic food and drinks, we’ll unwind our way into organic grape farms where local families will be our hosts, giving you an in-depth sight at what rural life in Albania is like. The agritourism tours offer plenty of opportunities for the culinary and farming enthusiasts to get hands ‘dirty’ by giving a try at preparing local foods or handling traditional farming equipment.
Tour Program
Visits to museums, handicrafts, winerys, local farms
Day 1
Tirana
Arrival at the airport. After a check into the hotel and depending on the time of arrival, the tour is on with the first visit paid to a wine farm just outside of Tirana. The best products of this winery are made from renowned cultivars such as Kallmet etc. And that is not all, this farm and time spent visiting the vineyards and processing facility will shake right off the plane miles.
Day 2
Durres, Lezhe
The day starts right away into the hilly areas surrounding Tirana to another winery. The farm is as famous for its wine as the history of its brand name. After our lounging there, the next farm is just a few kilometers away, where lunch is awaiting under the shadows of oaks and the cool breeze that a aquaculture reservoir helps bringing about. By now you are already over with Albania 101. We are on our way to a place full of history and amazing literary genius where dinner and accommodation are already arranged, where it won’t take more than an hour and a half to get there.
Day 3
Diber
Once finished with breakfast and our travel preparations, it will be impossible not to check out the next door pottery shop where 2 thousand years of craftsmanship is still being marketed. Next in our tour is a visit much upper north to a national wine processor, handling what may quite possibly the best cultivar. Lunch will be enjoyed in this area and then we will be heading to Dibra. There awaits us a milk and apple farm, a fresh juice processor and an aquaculture farm. The scenery offers a great deal of mountains and landscapes, and you might also like to visits the hot baths, or the mediaeval city ruins and in the end accommodation shall be as comfortable as you have ever experienced.
Day 4
Pogradec, Korca
We’ll start fresh and relaxed for a drive through a beautiful valley where a dairy farm of small ruminant’s milk products awaits to be explored in the mountains. A little further on and we are into another winery for a short stop. After that we’ll drive all the way to Pogradec and Korca; the most important regions in the southeast. Here your stamina we’ll be challenged as there will be plenty of nature, lakes, churches, and of course an entire empire of apple farms. Accommodation is organized in what used to be a mediaeval oasis of Byzantine Christianity and education, Voskopoja.
Day 5-6
Erseka, Permet
From there we’ll be heading further south towards Erseka and Leskovik. In this area we will enjoy and try out the delicacies of an organic farm. Meals cooked after the traditional style of this area. The tour in on as in front of us lies the city of Permet, well known for its flowers, landscape, hot baths and wine. We can take a break to relaxed by these thermal waters where a swim can be enjoyed at any time of the year. Here we are going to have a try at the traditional “Gliko”, one of the best handmade marmalades of Albania, replete with different fruits . Accommodation here will provide us with the time to talk over about some of the best Albanian writers of the last century originally from this area.
Day 7
Tepelene, Berat
Here we go again further into the valleys towards the city of Tepelena. We’ll check out the “Cold Water” spring of Tepelena, one of the most famous tourist attractions of Albania. Honey, medicinal herbs, mountain tea, organic dairy products, all to the delight of the traveler. From there we’ll detour up into the hills to check out another winery where the view is nothing short of amazing. Lunch and a small tour of the area are all organized. Don’t give up on us now, as the best is in front of you. We are driving shortly through the hills to the city of Berat where the next day has in store a clash of centuries.
Day 8
Tirana
We’ll start from the only castle in Balkans still inhabited as it was during the middle ages. Museums, handicrafts, churches, and of course a winery shall all distract you into absorbing all that you can. One thing you wouldn’t want to forget is your camera. From there, in keeping in touch with the feeling we’ll visit the only monastery with monks in Albania, and their historical church. Lunch is reserved in the restaurant nearby. Remember we are on the top of the hill from where you can actually see all of the southern midlands, and as you sip from the view offered we are almost ready to return to Tirana. Well, actually not just yet, as dinner is organized in another hidden treasure near it. A winery and jam producer and a restaurant shall be our host, handling a vineyard with a cultivar that has been attended to since Roman times.
We have come to the end of our tour. Reflections, emotions, souvenirs, all are ready to accompany you on your way back. We are sure you had a very good time, and by then in the spirit and habit of good friendship, by no means it shall be farewell, but only a goodbye.
Until next time!
What’s Included
- 7 breakfasts.
- Hotels 3* (5 nts), Small Vila (2 nts)
- Private 4WD, or Van
- Group Leader (GL) throughout, local guides
- Small group experience; Max 18, Avg 14.
- Visits to winery, local farms
- Wine tasting, fruit and vegetables from the farms
- Relax in Thermal waters in Day 5
Not included:
- 7 Lunches (to include please add 105€)
- 7 Dinner (to include please add 105€)
- Airport transfers (to include, add 30€)
- Extra Drinks
- Gratuities and individual daily expenses
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