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It's wonderful to see our Family Albania and Montenegro Hiking Adventure featured in today's Guardian newspaper! 

Book it for summer. 👉 https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/tours/7-day-family-hiking-montenegro-and-albania/

#Kosovo is the most exciting new destination for adventure travellers. Travel writer @camillabd.bsky.social shares her tales and tips from hiking and wild swimming in the Rugova Canyon. 👉https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/hiking-in-kosovo-exploring-rugova-canyon/

#balkans #travelinspiration

The childhoods lost to war A collection of mementoes and testimonies at the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo is a timely reminder of the devastating effects of war on children

Read about the incredible work of the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo in my new piece for The New World mag. The Museum collects mementoes and testimonies that serve as a timely reminder of the devastating effects of war on children. #Bosnia-#Herzegovina. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ian-bancroft...

We're in  @thetimes.com  for our Lake Skadar holidays – a hot tip for May 2026. 🎉

What a fabulous surprise and start to the year! 
Full article link 👉 https://www.thetimes.com/travel/inspiration/where-is-hot-in-may-msv93zzkm

Balkan communist bunkers are some of the coolest Cold War relics you can visit in Europe. Whether decorated bunkers in Albania, or Tito’s secret nuclear hideout in Bosnia, each has a compelling story. Read our guide 👉 https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/guide-to-balkan-bunkers-albania-bosnia-serbia/

From Serbia’s hidden canyon to Bosnian coffee rituals, Kosovo’s wild swimming spots and the dramatic Dinaric Alps, get guest blogger @camillabd.bsky.social  top Balkan travel discoveries of 2026 at the link below.
👉 https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/balkan-adventure-travel-serbia-bosnia-kosovo/

Ever heard of a ‘race-cation’? It’s the 2026 travel buzzword which means tagging a holiday onto a sporting challenge. 

From the Tirana Marathon to the Dalmatia Ultra Trail, read our Balkan race-cation guide for 2026/ 👇

https://f.mtr.cool/hwegkasuoy

Win a Christmas hamper of Balkan foodie treats + £100 for your next adventure! 🎄  

We’ve teamed up with Pelagonia, the Macedonian food brand in Waitrose, for a festive giveaway. Enter by 10 Dec via the link below.
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/xilwtluckh

#Giveaway

"Our first holiday with Undiscovered Balkans and Albania has been amazingly beautiful. Our tour guide was brilliant... Definitely recommended!" - Hazza A., 2025 guest.

Early Bird Sale! Book 2026 now with £150 off pp. 
👉https://f.mtr.cool/fcektqaoaa

In the Balkans, UNESCO World Heritage isn’t a dusty relic behind some museum glass. It can be hiked in, listened to, watched and celebrated. 

From crumbling Ottoman towns like Mostar to Albanian Polyphonic singing, read our roundup.👇

https://f.mtr.cool/zsocfuiwjv

Please sign & share the petition to save Buljarica beach and wetland in #Montenegro. Photos from my archive.👇

#natureprotection #environment

Bored of all the usual hiking destinations in Europe? Serbia is seriously underrated, so we’ve launched a hiking holiday here for 2026 🙌

Join us to explore Stara Planina (the “Old Mountain”) and the epic Iron Gates National Park.

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/rbtxnpvqaw

Our Super Early Bird special has just landed! Book your 2026 escape by 30 November and get £150 off per person on any of our multi-activity and hiking holidays in Montenegro, Albania or beyond.

Use code 2026UB150 when booking directly on our website 👇

https://f.mtr.cool/juxxmbctmp

Have you seen this petition yet? Save Buljarica: Protect Our Land, Homes, and Heritage

Please sign this petition and help save one of Montenegro’s last properly wild bits of coast from development.

Buljarica, with its large sandy beach and rich marshes, is home to countless birds and other wildlife. It is natural heritage and its conservation matters.

👇

c.org/tMjGhVW9n7

Families who adventure together, thrive together!

Earlier this month, the de la Mares joined us in Montenegro for a week of canyoning, rafting, mountain biking, kayaking and mountaineering, before hiking into Albania via the dramatic Accursed Mountains.

A summer to remember!

We’ve just won the Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Award 2025! 🎉

It puts us in the top 10% of travel companies worldwide based on our guests' amazing feedback of their adventures in the Balkans. 💚

Find out what makes our trips different:
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/dlkcvjaueb

A stay at our Villa Miela in Montenegro is recommended in the latest issue of Food and Travel magazine! 🙌

We're chuffed to bits to be featured. 

Thank you Rod and all at @foodandtravelhq!

If you haven’t visited #Serbia, it’s high time. Fantastic country, culture and people! Affordable too, and blissfully untouristy. #traveltips

“Our guide Alfie was simply a legend.” 💫

Huge thanks to Simon & Marie for this glowing review of their North Albania trip! Wild swims, epic hikes, amazing food – what a week.

Join us this Sept/Oct or from spring 2026:
👉 https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/tours/7-day-north-albania-activity-holiday/

Just about now, 20 years ago, I ended my longest ever shift as a government press officer, working in the UK crisis communication centre to feed a fact-hungry global media with the latest awful updates on the 7/7 bombings. It was multiple-agency, cross-governmental true team work. And very sad.

From Sarajevo’s buzz to the banks of the River Buna in Blagaj, last week’s Bosnia adventures didn’t let up.

Via Ferrata, canoeing, canyon scrambling, and that turquoise water!

Join us next time 👉 https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/tours/bosnia-multi-activity-holiday/

#BosniaandHerzegovina

So many smiles on our first cross-border hike of the season – from Montenegro to Albania, through the epic Balkan Alps.

Fancy it? More details below.
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/fzlplpuskt

Jakov Medić and Vladan Kovačević have both joined Ante Crnac at our hometown UK football club, giving the Canaries a distinct Balkan flavor this month.

Dobrodošli momci, u Norič Siti!

#NorwichCity #ncfc #norwichcityfc #Balkans

The 8 best hikes in the Balkans - Undiscovered Balkans From Albania's Valbona Pass to the Via Dinarica, the Balkans is home to some of the best (and under-the-radar) hikes in Europe.

Looking for your next hiking fix? 🥾

These 8 Balkan trails are packed with adventure (and not crowds) 👇.

https://f.mtr.cool/hmlwdontug 

#balkans #undiscoveredbalkans #mountains

Thrilled to be in the Sunday Times for our intrepid new South Albania adventure!

Read it here 👉  https://f.mtr.cool/aaxbwhmudp

With thanks to writer, Laura Sanders, and the team at Times Travel.

#Balkans #Travel

Over the moon to see Undiscovered Balkans trips recommended by National Geographic Traveller UK!

Pics by yours truly - out of possibly 100 taken. 🤭

Jared Kushner Targets Albania’s Adriatic Coast for Luxury Tourism Two major proposals led by Jared Kushner and a new airport championed by the Albanian government focus on an area prized for its biodiversity. Are they a sign of things to come?

For the birds—and the people who endeavor to save them, including @julianhoffman.bsky.social, my story for the @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...

We missed posting for #EarthDay yesterday, but shouldn't every day be Earth Day? In the Balkans, our immense wild spaces are sadly at threat. For 15 years, we've made our mission to champion nature here, and wish we could do more.👇

https://f.mtr.cool/cqjnumynaj