Albania self drive 11 day holiday

Planet

This trip forms part of a business wide initiative to promote destinations in Europe as a more environmentally friendly choice for your next holiday. Albania is a particularly good example of this, as despite the fact it is a little closer to home than a lot of long-haul destinations, it is still a real adventure with a wide diversity of landscapes, amazing history, and cultural highlights. A little less carbon footprint with the same excitement. Win, win!
There are lots of opportunities to enjoy traditional local food on this trip. These include a traditional cooking class, where all ingredients are seasonal and locally sourced, usually from the closest market, and facilitated by an expert local chef. Overall, this greatly reduces food miles, and improves your experience at the same time.
As part of this trip, you will also have the opportunity to visit landscapes of outstanding natural beauty such as the Gjipe Canyon and surrounding white sand beaches and paddling through the Valbona Valley. Many of these trips divert from the usual tourist trail to minimise environmental degradation, and on all counts, we encourage the upmost ethical conduct in environmental spaces. At the same time, we believe it is of fundamental importance to encourage immersive nature holidays in order to reconnect with the natural world!
We encourage our customers to be responsible by championing our 'make it meaningful' policy that promotes animal welfare, 0 waste and a slower pace of travel to maximise enjoyment and immersion in the chosen destination. We have blogs titled things like 'zero waste while travelling: our top tips' that give our customers a helpful guide about being responsible on their travels.
Back home in Brighton, we work in a soon-to-be B-corp co-working space and have an almost entirely paper free office where the team is committed to recycling, community gardening and will be cheerleading (yet another!) beach clean with our co-working space next month.

People

We also encourage you to visit local markets on your trip, and to buy and try products that are location specific. These include the exciting new bazaar in Tirana where you will have the opportunity to taste Albanian freshly brewed beer and sample a few local bites, as well as plenty of other historical spots.
In Kruja you will stay in a charming local hotel, and on the Riviera you can expect to enjoy the hospitality of your local hosts at a locally run guesthouse. There are also many other architecturally authentic special stays across the country, such as the ones in Berat and Shkodra. This contributes to the local economy and supports the local people who run them directly.
Employing local people is of paramount importance to our itineraries. This works twofold: your itinerary will support the local economy by employing local people, whilst also giving you the best and most authentic tours available. This commitment is further supported when we work with local partners to put together your overall itinerary from the get-go. Not only are these local partners the ultimate experts in their destination because they live there, but they will also be on hand 24/7 in-location to support you on your trip.