Kruja Castle

Departure from Tirana at 08.00 am. Short stop at the Sari Salltik Trace. Arrival in Kruja and visit the Castle. Free to visit the Scanderbeg Museum, the Unique Ethnographic Museum and the Old Medieval Bazaar. Journey continues to Sari Salltik Holy place. Free time to visit to the Holy Cave of Sari Salltik. Free time for lunch.

Ethnographic Museum of Kruja

The National Ethnographic Museum in Kruja presents the story of Albanian customs and traditions throughout the centuries, and thanks to the captivating guide of this museum, you’ll come to understand them better than ever before!

Journey continues to the National Park of Qafë Shtamë. Along the way a short stop at the Rock of Tears, Shkëmbi i Vajës. 90 women and girls from kruja, in order not to be into the hands of the Turks, were caught hand in hand and thrown from the rock up to 200 m high. This very tragic event has been remembered by the people of Kruja for many years.

Arrival at the National Park in Qafë Shtamë. Qafshtame National Park resides in the edge of the mountain chain north of Tirana, about 25 kilometers east of Kruja. The park is named after the Qafë-Shtamë passage, and has an area of 2000 hectares, with a beautiful mountain scenery consisting mainly of pine forests, some small lakes and major water sources.

Burrel

After breakfast in hotel drive to Burrel area. Distance is short but difficult road, unpaved and takes longer. Short break and visit Burrel town.

Rubik

Departure to Rubik. Short visit to Rubik Church. Church of (Rubik) the Ascension, is the first building in Rubik that a traveller will notice as they drive along the Fan River. Established in 1166 as one of four Benedictine Conventions in the Mirdita region.

Saint Anthony Church of Lac

Continue to Lac town and visit the famous Kisha e Shna Ndout or Kisha e Laçit). The church was first built around year 1300, and dedicated to St. Mary, then renamed after Anthony of Padua in 1557. In 1971 it was destroyed by the communist regime, and eventually was rebuilt in the 1990s. It is a Franciscan church.

Drive to Patoku Lagoon. Nothing compares to the landscapes of it. Created during the Holocene period, this area was characterised by a Geo-morphological dynamism. Free time for lunch. Afternoon, return to Tirana