Year: 2026

Peaks of the Balkans: a complete trail guide

Peaks of the Balkans is a circular trail of roughly one hundred and ninety two kilometres linking Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro, crossing the borders over

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Përmet and the Benja thermal springs

Përmet is a town of ten thousand people in southern Albania, set on the bank of the Vjosa, one of the last genuinely wild rivers

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Korçë: the little Paris of Albania, a city guide

Korçë is a city of about seventy five thousand people in south eastern Albania, set on a plateau at eight hundred and fifty metres near

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Trebinje: the town of sun and wine in Bosnia

Trebinje is a town of thirty thousand people at the southern tip of Herzegovina, less than thirty kilometres from Dubrovnik and an hour from the

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Jajce: the waterfall in the royal town centre

Jajce is a town of twenty seven thousand people in central Bosnia, built where the Pliva meets the Vrbas. It has a waterfall of over

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Sutjeska: the primeval forest and Maglić peak

Sutjeska is the oldest national park in Bosnia and Herzegovina, established in 1962 in the south eastern corner of the country against the Montenegrin border.

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Blagaj: the dervish monastery under the cliff

Blagaj is a village twelve kilometres from Mostar, built around a spring unlike any other in Europe. The water emerges straight from a cave at

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Slovak Paradise: ladders, chains and waterfalls

Slovak Paradise is a national park in eastern Slovakia where the trails do not go around the gorges but straight up through them, on metal

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Košice: the hidden gem of eastern Slovakia

Košice is the second city of Slovakia, with around two hundred and thirty thousand residents, at the far eastern end of the country. It has

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