Albania and Kosovo
Two European countries where the mosque is the town square, not a footnote on the map.
The trip
Two European countries where the mosque is the town square, not a footnote on the map.
Albania and Kosovo are the part of Europe most travellers skip and most Muslim travellers would love, because here the Islamic story is not preserved behind glass, it is still running. Kruja is Skanderbeg's mountain capital, with a bazaar and the Dollma tekke, a small domed shrine still in use. Shkodra has the Ebu Beker mosque and the Rozafa castle above the lake. Prizren, the cultural capital of Kosovo, is a UNESCO-layered Ottoman town of filigree silversmiths and the great Sinan Pasha mosque. Pristina holds the Carshi mosque from the fifteenth century, the Imperial Mosque built under Mehmed the Conqueror in 1461, and a Turkish bath complex from 1470. Between them the route puts you on a boat for a full day on Komani Lake, into the Albanian Alps by water, where the walls rise from 170m to 2,400m.
The Imperial Mosque at Pristina was built in 1461 and has never stopped being used. Very little in Europe can say that.
Day by day
Every day, already considered.
Prayer, dining, and where you rest, planned into each day, so you are never caught out.
- 01
DESTINATION
Arrival in Albania
Private transfer from Tirana airport, then, depending on the flight, a guided walking tour of the capital including Bunk'art 2, the museum inside a former ministry bunker.
- 02
DESTINATION
Cable car, bunker, amphitheatre
Bunk'art 1, inside the dictator's atomic bunker, then a fifteen-minute cable car to the top of Dajti Mountain and an adventure park for the family. In the afternoon, Durres, the oldest town in Albania, and its 15,000-seat Roman amphitheatre.
- 03
DESTINATION
Skanderbeg's citadel and a tekke
North to Kruja, Skanderbeg's medieval capital: the traditional market, the Skanderbeg museum and the Dollma Tekke, a small domed Islamic shrine. Then Shkodra, founded in the fourth century BC, for the Ebu Beker mosque, Rozafa castle and the lake.
- 04
DESTINATION
A day on the water in the Alps
A very early start for Komani, then a private full-day boat: an hour along the lake to the Shala river, through a landscape that climbs from 170m to 2,400m. Lunch on the river, then over the border to Prizren.
- 05
DESTINATION
Waterfalls, then the old town
An hour and a half to the Mirusha waterfalls, then Peja and a guided walk. Back in Prizren for the Sinan Pasha mosque, the UNESCO-listed Church of Our Lady of Ljevis, the League of Prizren museum and the Ottoman old town, famous for gold and silver filigree.
- 06
DESTINATION
1461 and still open
To Pristina by way of Gracanica monastery. In the capital: the Carshi mosque, the oldest building in the city, the Imperial Mosque built in 1461 under Mehmed the Conqueror, the Great Hammam of 1470, the Kosovo Museum and the National Library.
- 07
DESTINATION
Back over the mountains
Back to Tirana with a stop for lunch on the way, then a free afternoon for the zoo, the park or the shopping streets.
- 08
DESTINATION
Homeward
Breakfast, free time until the transfer, then Tirana airport for onward flights.
OUR STANDARD HALAL SERVICES
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Pick and drop for Friday Prayers - ( if nearest Masjid available)
Prayer Facilities
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Veg / Sea Food Restaurants
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Albania and Kosovo
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