Undiscovered Balkans

Adventures in untouched beauty

Escape the crowds on our small group activity holidays & tours

Undiscovered Balkans

Head out on a lake safari...

Undiscovered Balkans

Hike spectacular mountain trails...

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Gaze at tranquil beauty...

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Swim wild in hidden pools...

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Multi Activity Holidays

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Walking Holidays

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Kayaking Holidays

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Cultural Holidays

Authentic adventures in untouched beauty

Undiscovered Balkans specialises in hosted, action-packed holidays in locations that haven’t yet been claimed by mass-tourism. Our hand-picked tour leaders can create an unforgettable adventure activity holiday for you and your partner, family or group of friends, in some of the most diverse, unexplored and action-packed corners of Europe!

Recommended by the Lonely Planet, National Geographic Travel and other travel media, our small group activity and nature holidays are designed to get you to all the best hidden spots, based on the extensive local knowledge and the environmental ethos of our guides and founders. Each trip has been thoroughly tested and vetted for awesomeness, so whether you’re into hiking, biking, kayaking, rafting, swimming, gastronomy or canyoning, we have a selection of active holidays in stunning Balkan destinations that will amaze you – and best of all, they’re seriously good value for money!

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Lake Multi Activity Montenegro - 7 days

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Winter Multi Activity Montenegro - 7 days

Skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing on the alpine slopes of Montenegro!

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Family Multi Activity Montenegro - 7 days

A multi-active summer adventure for families with super-active younger children!

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Multi Activity Albania - 7 days

A multi-activity adventure in Albania for families with younger children!

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Amazing Adventures in Untouched Beauty!
🛶 kayaking 🥾 hiking🍷 wine 🐸 wildlife🧘‍♀️yoga 🏡 Villa Miela 🌎 responsible travel
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While snow has just fallen on Montenegro’s mount

While snow has just fallen on Montenegro’s mountains, the views on its Mediterranean coastline could double for summer on a sunny winter’s day. We took this photo in late November - from a hidden path loved by locals.

Let us show you the hidden, untouched beauty of Montenegro on our guided activity holidays and tours! 😊💚

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So many reasons to want to head for the hills thes

So many reasons to want to head for the hills these days! 🤨 So why not do it? 😄 With at least 80% of its landmass studded with mountains, Montenegro’s the perfect bit of Europe to choose. Feel truly alive as you take a week walking in awe-inspiring scenery on our brilliant group walking adventure, running June-Oct 2022!

Here’s some of the incredible comments we’ve received for this holiday from guests past:

🌟 “5 stars - What a fantastic week! Wonderful walking in a great variety of beautiful mountainous regions.” Louise, our 2019 guest

🌟 “5 stars - What a phenomenal experience this entire trip was! I cannot recommend this trip enough!” Jon, our 2019 guest

🌟 “5 stars - Montenegro has stunning scenery, mountains almost everywhere you look.” Paula, our 2019 guest

⛰ Ready to discover Europe’s most mountainous country with us by foot on a holiday which gives back, benefiting locals?

Full info & booking at:
https://undiscoveredmontenegro.com/tours/walking-holiday-montenegro/

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It’s high time we told you about day two at Ulci

It’s high time we told you about day two at Ulcinj, a day of flamingos 🦩, pelicans, amazing local flavours (thanks to @tasteofulcinj_!) and a cracking sunset over the old stone town! 🌅

We’ve been bringing birdwatching groups to Ulcinj’s saltpans for almost 10 years as THE place to see wild flamingo and waders like Black-winged Stilt. Thanks to the determined efforts of local & international conservationists, this mecca for birds is now a protected nature park since 2019 and a Ramsar site. 🌎

Our experience last week was the best yet. Some 300 flamingos were there, spread across the saltwater basins, with one group less than 100 metres away. 🙌 We also spotted Dalmatian Pelican and countless other water birds!

Wish we'd had a decent zoom lens 📸 - something firmly on the kit list for our 2022 Montenegro birdwatching adventures, which you can book for w/c 10 April and w/c 1 May (full info at the link in our bio).

Our visit has inspired us to bring more of Ulcinj’s hidden gems into our itineraries. Watch this space for more undiscovered adventures!

With thanks to @czip_montenegro, @msjadrmartinschneiderjacoby and everyone involved in this amazing fam trip. We hope a solution comes soon to fully restore the salt works at Ulcinj’s saltpans and secure the future for this vital resting and nesting area! 🙏 🦩 🦅

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Who needs some yoga and nature therapy? Inspired b

Who needs some yoga and nature therapy? Inspired by today’s full moon 🌕, we’re looking ahead to next June and two special retreats we’re hosting with British Hatha/Vinyasa expert @marnieyoga, based at stunning Lake Skadar! The first is already sold out , but we have seven spots still available for week commencing 19th June. If you’re looking for some untamed nature and the chance to focus on YOU, we can’t recommend it, @villamiela or Marnie highly enough! 🧘✨😊 Read the review below from our 2019 guest Viv and book at: https://undiscoveredmontenegro.com/tours/montenegro-yoga-activity-holiday/

Guest Viv's glowing review:
"After trying a couple of yoga breaks in UK my husband and I decided to give a longer break abroad a go. We chose Marnie’s Montenegro holiday and what an amazing experience it was. Villa Miela is an idyllic location with fabulous views, and facilities to make our very first foreign Yoga break an holiday we will treasure forever. The activities in the surrounding area gave us so many memories to remember and the fun and laughter will be with us for many years. Thank you!”

Photos from our 2019 yoga retreat with Marnie. 🕉

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We’ve been out researching new experiences at Ul

We’ve been out researching new experiences at Ulcinj which go beyond the touristy sea, sand, sun loungers and citadel circuit! 🏖

Day one took us on a cultural odyssey to the nearby villages of Montenegro’s ethnic Albanian communities. We were there to hike an old "kaldrma" trail and discover a history dating 8,000 years, along with a heap of medicinal plants still used for teas today.

As we walked with our local hosts Rina and Artan, we heard the muezzin call ‘Azan’ from a village mosque in the hills – a reminder that even into the early 20th century, this part of Montenegro was still ruled by the Ottoman empire.

Lunch was at a local home. Delicious traditional dishes with Turkish influence, prepared by the lovely Zana and accompanied by fresh pomegranate juice! Coffee afterwards was ‘sofra-style’, with everyone sat on the floor around a circular low table. It’s an arrangement which is so convivial and refreshing and typical in places where, from the legacy of history, East meets West. 🇲🇪 🇦🇱

Falaminderit 🙏🏽😊 to everyone involved in making this great day happen! We can’t wait to introduce this fascinating and authentic side of Ulcinj to our guests next year.

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Out exploring the hidden beauty of Ana e Malit by

Out exploring the hidden beauty of Ana e Malit by Albania, we met ‘Lime’, hand-making woollen yarn from her sheep in the traditional way we thought had been lost in Montenegro’s south until this moment. 🐑👌

“I’m making this lot thinner, for socks”, she told us, making it look easy! The fiddly job requires skill and dexterity. Giving it a go resulted in real giggles – and that’s the kind of responsible fun our adventures are all about! 😄

By visiting remote communities - hiking, cycling or by kayak, enjoying a meal at a local home, taking a class in cheese-making or knitting - we are supporting people, culture, tradition and the environment too – because our older generations knew how to live symbiotically with their surroundings. Move over zero-kilometre eating, this is zero-kilometre clothing!

A pair of Lime’s 100% natural wool socks would keep our toes so toasty through winter. 🔥

Thanks to @rina_kovaci, Artan, Zana, Hejredin and everyone we met this Friday. Thanks also to @czip_montenegro and @msjadrmartinschneiderjacoby for bringing us here. 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 Can’t wait to return to this special place – soon!

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Late autumn 🍂 – a time for walking in woodlan

Late autumn 🍂 – a time for walking in woodland, appreciating the season which has gone, the new friends it brought us and for catching up on office work (it’s not all outdoor adventures and exploring, much as we’d love it to be!).

These photos 📸 from the other week were languishing on our laptop. We were hiking one of our favourite Lake Skadar trails for the early and late season. Early season for wild flowers including orchids! 🌼 Late season for autumn colours and wild eats! 🍄

Fancy enjoying some gentle sunshine ☀️ and fabulous Montenegrin landscape with us next Spring or Autumn? Check out our multi-active and specialist breaks like yoga based at Lake Skadar National Park and get in touch!

Full info & booking at the link in our bio 👉🏽👉🏽

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The tiny fishing town of Virpazar by Lake Skadar,

The tiny fishing town of Virpazar by Lake Skadar, pictured earlier today as the rain clouds lifted. The views were magical! 📸

This historic settlement often looks its most atmospheric in the autumn, but its always a great place to visit or stay on our activity breaks - a gateway to 400km of epic National Park! 🛶 🥾

Find out more & book for next year at the link in our bio. 👉🏽👉🏽

Photos taken at our lake retreat @villamiela

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Wow, she’s a beauty! 🤩 This is Budva on our v

Wow, she’s a beauty! 🤩 This is Budva on our visit the other day - but the truth is that aside from the gem that is the carefully preserved Venetian stone town, the city is a mess of badly-planned, sometimes unfinished urban sprawl. Buildings, hotels & apartment blocks jar and jostle for space, packed in tight, just like the crowds of tourists they host come summer (scroll to pic 2 to see the reality).

❣️As tourism returns to Montenegro, this uncontrolled growth in tourism which counts visitor numbers as king cannot continue. Instead we urge the authorities that be to count value not volume when it comes to tourism development and with a strictly enforced urban plan which respects and protects Budva’s incredible cultural legacy and assets. 🙏🏽

In the meantime, we’ll keep on recommending Budva as a destination best visited out of season; a place to sup coffee as locals do on “Ričardova Glava / Richard’s Head” beach while enjoying the gentle warmth of a sunny autumn or winter’s day. ☀️

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Thrilled to get a mention in today’s @irishtimes

Thrilled to get a mention in today’s @irishtimesmagazine climate special today for our multi-active winter holiday in Kolašin (and including a visit to Durmitor’s UNESCO protected Black Lake, where this pic was taken). 🙌⛄️

Cheers to the article’s climate-savvy & very lovely writer, @catherinemacktravel, who writes:

“…a newbie to the sustainable skiing scene is in Montenegro with eco adventure experts Undiscovered Montenegro offering a 7 day winter adventure holiday.”

Can’t wait for the snow season to start - we’re already taking bookings for January-April, so check us out at the link in our bio & get in touch! ⛷ 🏂 ⛄️ 😎

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More October fun in the sun ☀️ with the Cowan

More October fun in the sun ☀️ with the Cowan family! This time our adventures took us to the spectacular northern shores of Lake Skadar for a mixed-activity day of forest walking, cave trekking, frog-examining, epic view-gazing, off-road safari driving and, yes, even wild swimming. That dip was cold 🥶 but so worth it!

Our family lake adventure holiday is running again for the Spring 2022 half-term 🙌 and with limited spots still available.

Find out more and book your family a unique nature escape at the link in our bio. 👉🏽👉🏽

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Kayaking under Montenegro's colourful autumn sky!

Kayaking under Montenegro's colourful autumn sky! 🌞

Now that our doors have finally been reopened to the United Kingdom, we are so excited to get back to sharing the outstanding natural beauty of Montenegro with our British guests. 🤗

And what better way to do it than with a kayaking trip in stellar sunshine on stunning Lake Skadar? These photos were all taken while out yesterday and on a tour which also gave our guests the chance to forage for wild water chestnuts, see some of the amazing 280 species of birds that call Skadar Lake home and explore the hidden island monastery of St Nikola. 🗺

Fancy joining us for a last-minute October adventure? Book now at the link in our bio. 😁🔗

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The first snow fell at Montenegro's main ski centr

The first snow fell at Montenegro's main ski centre 'Kolasin' this week, making us wait even more impatiently for winter sports fun! ⛄️ Fast forward to January and we’ll be running our awesome winter holiday again, mixing snowshoeing 👣, skiing ⛷ and snowboarding 🏂 with tobogganing, cheese-tasting and fun for everyone. It’s a brilliant choice for anyone looking for winter adventures off-the-beaten track and with bargain flight prices now available for the new year and February half-term. 😎

Find out more and book at the multi-activity holidays section of our website - link in our bio. 👉🏽👉🏽

📸 by Emma from Mt Bjelasica in February this year

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🥳 Today's a day to celebrate! Montenegro advent

🥳 Today's a day to celebrate! Montenegro adventures are back on at last for our British guests, with this fabulous, tiny country removed today from the infamous UK red list requiring hotel quarantine. There’s even no more Foreign Office advisory against travel here, also as of today. 🙌

It may have taken until autumn, hence the autumnal pic from Lake Skadar, but we’re so excited to get going with our 2022 adventures! 😁 You can read more from us about what’s in store in our latest newsletter out today (and with an updated link in our bio so you can find it 👉🏽👉🏽)

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Still looking for an October half-term getaway whi

Still looking for an October half-term getaway which won't break the bank? Now Montenegro is back on the table, our Autumn family adventure at Lake Skadar has got you covered! Come if you love hiking 🥾 and kayaking 🛶 in epic, Hobbit-like landscapes, outdoor swimming (wetsuits if needed), bonfires 🔥 and roasting marshmallows, learning bushcraft, amazing nature including giant pelicans, gentle sun, wispy clouds on mountains, foraging for wild eats like pomegranates, chestnuts and mushrooms and resplendent autumn colours. 🍁 🍂

We currently have full availability due to Montenegro's unexpected removal from the UK’s red list (hurray!), so snap up a bargain with our £100pp discount!

Full info & booking at the link in our bio. 👉🏽👉🏽

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Montenegro’s a pretty laid-back country, but wit

Montenegro’s a pretty laid-back country, but with the arrival of October, it’s a frenzy of alcohol-related activities. 😉 This is the time of year when our wine-tasting adventures get extra interesting! 🙌

🍷 In fact, any hike or outing can turn into an opportunity to stir a barrel of fermenting grape juice or even try a freshly distilled brandy made right on the street.

🍷 Almost every household here proudly produces their own wine and rakija (grappa), while more than 50 wineries do it professionally.

🍷 Some of the best are located in the Lake Skadar basin – ideal for wine-tasting on our Lake Skadar multi-activity holiday. Find out more at the link in our bio. 👉🏽👉🏽

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