Adventure travel, rooted in Albania.
Walking, cycling, cultural and winter adventures across the Western Balkans. Trusted by the world's leading tour operators for 35 years, on routes we've personally ridden and walked.
How you want to travel, where you want to go.
Nine ways into the Balkans, all designed for small groups or bespoke parties. Every tour personally routed and run by the Sondor team in Tirana.
Popular adventures for 2026.
Albania Cycling Tour: 8 Days from Lake Ohrid to the Ionian Sea
Guided small-group cycling tour across Southern Albania — 8 days from UNESCO-listed Lake Ohrid to the Ionian Sea via Korça, the Qarri Pass, Përmet's thermal springs and Ottoman Gjirokastra, finishing with ancient Butrint. Quality bikes, support vehicle and local guide throughout; maximum 16 riders.
Albanian Alps Trek: 8 Days on the Quiet Side of the Accursed Mountains
Guided 8-day trek through the quiet side of the Albanian Alps — Valbona, Çerem, the Dobërdol and Sylbicë pastures — entering via Prizren's Ottoman old town and returning by the Koman ferry and Krujë. Family-run guesthouses, a high mountain hut, luggage transferred between stops. Far from the crowded Valbona–Theth trail.
Albania & Kosovo Discovery
One nation, one language, one mountain. This is Northern Albania and Kosovo as lived by the people who call it home — no divisions, just stories. You'll taste rakia in Shumbat, walk to Black Lake in Radomire, cross Lake Koman by ferry, and eat at a farm where the owner's grandmother grows the vegetables on your plate. You'll see how Prizren's Ottoman bazaars, Kosovo's monasteries, and Albanian stone houses all tell the same story — resilience, hospitality, craft. This is a journey through culture that has survived everything.
Born in the Albanian Alps. Building adventures since 1991.
Sondor was founded in 1991 by Sadik Malaj — former head of tourism in Tropojë during the Communist years — the month the country opened its borders. For 35 years we have designed and run small-group tours in places we know personally: the same mountains our father walked, the same coastal roads my sister and I have ridden since we were teenagers.
We remain a family business. Two generations of local knowledge, one mission: to show travellers an Albania and a Western Balkans that only locals can really show you.
Three reasons travellers keep choosing Albania.
The country is about a decade behind where Croatia was in 2010 — which is exactly when the cycling and walking were at their best, and the hotels hadn't been bought yet.
Untouched Alps
The Accursed Mountains remain one of Europe's last undiscovered ranges. Peaks Moser never skied, trails Strava never heard of, guesthouses where dinner is whatever the grandmother cooked.
Mediterranean coast
300 kilometres of Ionian riviera, crystal-clear waters from Vlorë to Butrint, and olive groves still owned by the families who planted them three generations ago.
Living history
UNESCO-listed Gjirokastra and Berat. Ottoman stone houses still lived in. Communist bunkers turned art galleries. The past isn't in a museum here — it's around the next bend.
Reviews from people who actually went.
An incredible week on the bike through Albania's backroads. The guide knew every village we passed through and every hotelier waiting for us — this is clearly a family operation in the best sense.
Professional, warm, and deeply knowledgeable. Sondor showed us an Albania we never knew existed — thermal springs, stone villages, people who insisted on pouring more wine.
Travel that leaves the place better than it found it.
Sondor was the first Albanian DMC to earn GSTC certification and remains the only one with the UNDP SDG Business Pioneers Award. We carbon-offset every tour through a reforestation partner in Tropojë — the same valley our father grew up in.
80% of meal ingredients on our tours come from producers within 20km. Every guesthouse we use is locally owned. A fixed percentage of every booking funds trail maintenance and community projects in the places we travel.
Tell us what you’re looking for.
Whether it’s one of our tours on different dates, a route built from scratch, or you just aren’t sure yet — write to us. You’ll get an answer from the family who runs the trips, not a booking desk.