Category: Travel Tips
Herceg Novi: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Herceg Novi Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Herceg Novi sits at the western entrance to the Bay of Kotor at just 40 metres above sea level, founded in 1382 by Bosnian King Tvrtko I Kotromanić as a fortress town named after Saint Stephen. The municipality counts around 33,000 inhabitants while the old […]
North Montenegro: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
North Montenegro Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) North Montenegro is a dramatic highland wilderness covering roughly 7,000 square kilometres, home to Durmitor National Park — a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980 — with peaks rising above 2,500 metres and the Tara River Canyon cutting 1,300 metres deep, making it the second […]
Bay of Kotor: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Bay of Kotor Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) The Bay of Kotor is a dramatic fjord-like inlet on Montenegro’s Adriatic coast, stretching roughly 28 km inland and encircled by limestone mountains that rise sharply to 1,749 metres at Lovćen. Founded as Acruvium by the Romans, the medieval walled city of Kotor at […]
Vardzia: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Vardzia Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Vardzia is a spectacular cave monastery complex carved into the Erusheti Mountain in southern Georgia, stretching 500 metres along a cliff face in up to 19 tiers at roughly 1,300 metres above sea level. Founded during the reign of Queen Tamar in the late 12th century, […]
Svaneti: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Svaneti Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Svaneti is a high-altitude region in northwestern Georgia, with peaks exceeding 5,000 metres along the Greater Caucasus range, including Mount Shkhara at 5,193 metres — Georgia’s highest summit. The region’s capital Mestia sits at roughly 1,500 metres elevation and is home to the Svan people, a […]
Kazbegi Region: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Kazbegi Region Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) The Kazbegi Region sits at the heart of the Greater Caucasus at an average elevation of 1,750 metres, anchored by the town of Stepantsminda (formerly Kazbegi) with a population of roughly 7,400 residents. Mount Kazbek towers above at 5,047 metres, making it one of the […]
Kartli: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Kartli Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Kartli is the ancient heartland of Georgia, a historical region stretching along the Mtkvari (Kura) River through central and eastern Georgia, home to Tbilisi — a capital founded in the 5th century AD. Known to classical authors as Hiberia, Kartli was the crucible of Georgian statehood, […]
Durres: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Durres Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Durrës is Albania’s second-largest city with a population of 101,728 and roughly 2,500 years of continuous settlement — making it one of the oldest cities on the Adriatic coast. Founded by Greek colonists around 627 BC as Epidamnos, it sits on a flat coastal plain between […]
Berat: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Berat Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Berat is a UNESCO World Heritage city of 40,665 people perched along the Osum River in central Albania, just 70 km south of Tirana and famous for its Ottoman-era ‘city of a thousand windows.’ Founded as Antipatrea in the 3rd century BC, it sits at 58 […]
Lake Ohrid Region: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Lake Ohrid Region Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) The Albanian side of Lake Ohrid sits at an altitude of 693 metres above sea level, sharing one of Europe’s oldest and deepest lakes — over 3 million years old — with North Macedonia across the water. The lakeside town of Pogradec, founded in […]
Historic Albania: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Historic Albania Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Historic Albania is one of Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited territories, with Butrint founded over 2,500 years ago and Berat’s castle district dating to the 4th century BC. The country stretches 450 km from the Macedonian highlands to the Ionian coast, sitting at a crossroads of […]
Central Albania: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Central Albania Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Central Albania spans 4,967 km² around the capital Tirana and forms one of only three NUTS-2 statistical regions in the country. Tirana itself was founded in 1614 and today houses roughly 800,000 people — nearly a third of Albania’s entire population in one urban core. […]