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

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

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. 🤭

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

Just wrapped up our Montenegro birdwatching week with a rare Wallcreeper sighting! Our birders were thrilled to spot 110 species in all, including Three-toed Woodpecker. Scroll for the full list. Love birds? Join us next year!  https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/tours/birdwatching-holiday-montenegro/

Our beautiful Villa Miela is open for the 2025 season! 🥳  #LakeSkadar #Montenegro #ecolodge

Our 2025 season has started, and it's already moved guest Sabine to tears of joy spotting rare birds like Dalmatian Pelican and Rock Nuthatch on our #birdwatching holiday in #Montenegro!  Love birds and adventure? Get in touch!

Discover the 'Bosnian Colorado' near Foča! 🏜️ These stunning sand pyramids, formed by centuries of erosion, are a breathtaking sight and worth a detour!   Couldn't resist checking them out while researching our activity and hiking holidays!

Family Holiday Hack: Skip the summer crowds and save money—book for Easter or May Half Term! Why? ✅ Guaranteed sun, but not too hot ✅ Fewer tourists ✅ £200 off per kid – use code UBKids200 Grab this last-minute deal for Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia, or Croatia! 👇 www.undiscoveredbalkans.com

Are you part of a walking club and keen to do an international trip? See how UK-based club YOLO got on with our Montenegro to Albania cross-border hiking holiday in our interview with founding member Simon.👇 https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/peaks-of-the-balkans-montenegro-albania-hiking-holiday/

Serbia's largest-ever rally sees 325,000 protest government www.bbc.com/news/article...

Calling all solo travellers! We've scrapped the single supplement for these epic Balkan adventures. 🚴 18-25 May: Super-Active Montenegro ⛰️ 15-22 June: Trekking Montenegro to Albania 🥾 20 June, 3 Aug, 31 Aug: Hiking Montenegro 🌄 5-12 Oct: Hiking Bulgaria Limited spaces - Book now!📍

Great read! And now craving delicious Albanian food… 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...? #albania #balkans

A woman’s place is in… a kayak! A woman’s place is in… a canyon! A woman’s place is in… the forest! Happy #InternationalWomenDay! 🧗‍♀️🫶

More pics from my family’s explorations last summer - this time to beautiful Gusinje, at Montenegro’s north frontier with Albania!

Some pics from our family research trip to South Albania last summer. I could not believe my eyes at the purity and colour of Lake Ohrid’s water. Excited to be bringing our first group here in just a few weeks!

My brother had just died in a car crash, his last message to me saying buy-up tinned goods (he was a banker). I was over in the UK for his funeral when Montenegro shut its borders. They repatriated me and put me in solitary quarantine for 2 weeks, away from my husband and young kids #fiveyearson

www.thetimes.com/world/europe... Impressed by the students walking 300kms aross Serbia to drum up support for a huge anti-corruption protest against their gov Some copy written while stuck in a huge & honk-friendly traffic jam full of protestors going from Belgrade to Nis...

🌿 Spring is here! Fancy an early summer? Save up to £200 on our adventures in Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia & Bulgaria! Offers end 15th March. Which trip will you choose? Full details and booking at the link below. ⛰️ 🛶 www.undiscoveredbalkans.com #traveldeal

The Yugo but better! I actually really like this design for a modern update on the much-loved classic. #yugo #balkans www.hagerty.com/media/news/y...

Travel is not only good for the soul, it’s good for the soulmates. 👫 From hiking to wine tasting, canyoning to birdwatching – whatever your love language, we’ve got a trip for that.👇 https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/adventure-holidays-for-couples-in-the-balkans/ #CouplesTravel #Balkans

Calling all adventure couples! 💛 Book 2 spots on our Lake Skadar activity holiday for June & get 20% off + a bottle of Montenegrin fizz! We consistently get 5 star reviews from couples. Use code LOVE20; offer ends 28 Feb.👇 https://undiscoveredmontenegro.com/tours/multi-activity-holiday-lake-skadar/

Is it possible to escape the crowds, in #Croatia, in August? Read the amazing feedback we got from our 2024 South Dalmatia guest Stephen and his family. ⬇️ https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/tours/dalmatia-multi-activity-holiday-croatia-7-days/

Excellent article about unsustainable tourism development in #Albania in yesterday’s Telegraph ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/gift/6a831d3... #Balkans

Ever crossed a border… on a remote mountain trail? 👣 Trekking from Montenegro to Albania isn’t just a hike — it’s an adventure through some of Europe's wildest, least touched landscapes. Watch our new video to learn more.👇

‘We are done with corruption’: how the students of Serbia rose up against the system …at last decent UK media coverage of seismic protests in Serbia, ongoing right now. Amazing fortitude. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

#Bulgaria… but not as you know it. ⛰️🥾   Our new hiking holiday here is wild! Summit the highest peak in the Balkans, hike glacial lakes & dramatic ridges, and explore hidden trails in the Rila & Pirin mountains.     Who’s in? https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/tours/7-day-hiking-holiday-in-bulgaria/

Mardi Gras the Balkan way! Why I like to escape the crowds at Venice carnival and head for the Dalmatian coast instead. Once part of the Venetian empire in 15th century, Balkan seaside towns adopted carnival traditions and turned them on their head. Masks on. 🤿 www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

My travel company helped get urgently needed protection measures for Lake Skadar’s Dalmatian pelicans in just in time for nesting season. Here’s hoping for lots of healthy chicks come March! #SustainableTourism #Conservation #Balkans

This is where I’ll be come summer. 😍

Albania’s having a moment…  It’s not just the buzz from travel experts like The Times tipping #Albania for 2025 — but also the amazing feedback from guests on our activity holidays! Isn't it time you visited? Book by 31 Jan for £100 off 👉 https://undiscoveredbalkans.com/albania-holidays/ #travel