Private Full-Day Historical Day Tour in North Macedonia and Albania

Dori is an exceptional and wonderful tour guide! We toured Albania and North Macedonia with him for multiple days, including Durres, Tirana, Lake Ohrid, Bovilla lake and Kruja. It is quickly evident how friendly and welcoming Dori is, and I really appreciated his very vast depth of knowledge of all the areas we visited - you could point almost anything out and he would be able to talk about it. On a personal level too, Dori has such a great number of anecdotes of his memories growing up in Albania, including of the communist period while he was a child... I was always fascinated to hear more! On another note, it is very pleasing to see how well Dori gets on with the locals, many seem to know and are happy to greet him, which added to the friendly atmosphere of our tours. Dori is also a very flexible tour guide, with such great knowledge of the region that he is able to give suggestions and take you to relevant places at your request. The restaurants he took us to were less touristy and filled with locals, and he showed me somewhere to get a closer look at a bridge that fascinated me during his drive! Overall I could not recommend Dori enough, he responds very quickly and attentively, showed us great things and took great care of us... I will not hesitate to reach out to you again should we ever be back!

I have traveled more than a million miles, and I have used any number of private guides. Dori is the best one I have found. He is an excellent driver and an informative guide. His English is flawless. He knows the countries, the cities, and especially the sites that are of interest to visitors.

From the end of December 2023 to the beginning of January 2024 I used Dori as my guide for most of my sightseeing tours in Albania. When I first inquired about his tours, he responded immediately and made it extremely easy to make reservations. I took day tours to Berat, Apollonia and Bashtova (fortress), as well as overnight tours to Southern Albania (Butrint, Saranda, Gjirokastër, as well as some lesser-known small towns on the way) and Ohrid (Ohrid town in North Macedonia as well as some nearby villages around Ohrid lake in both North Macedonia and Albania). All of these tours were extremely memorable and amazing. I really enjoyed all of them. Dori was extremely knowledgeable, enthusiastic, as well as an extremely safe driver. He always provided many interesting facts about all of the places we visited as well as facts about places we would pass by on the road. I never felt rushed at any time I was visiting any of the sites. He also takes really good photos (I always like having photos of myself at the sites I visit). In addition, Dori always showed me things that were lesser known (whenever there were any), which added to the experience. Albania is a very underrated country. It has so many interesting sites and places to visit. The people are very welcoming and friendly, and I always felt very safe in all the places I visited. Also, be sure to visit one of the Communist era bunkers if you are able to. There are thousands of them throughout Albania and they are extremely interesting. I could not have had a better guide than Dori and would highly recommend him to anyone visiting Albania. You will not be disappointed!