From Europe’s last big wild river to the Ionian coast — guided rafting, kayaking and SUP journeys across Albania and beyond, designed privately around your group.
Europe's first Wild River National Park — 270 km of free-flowing water, protected since 2023
From family float trips to canyon white water — routes chosen to fit your group, not the other way round
Guides, equipment, safety kit, transfers and riverside lunches — one enquiry, everything handled
Water is where the Balkans is still most itself — rivers that were never dammed, lakes older than Europe, a coast the crowds haven’t found.
We design private paddling journeys across it all: a single unforgettable day on the Vjosa, a spring descent of the Osumi canyons, a week of sea kayaking on the Riviera — or the full crossing of the peninsula, river by river. Tell us the water you dream about; we build the trip around it.
A few minutes on the water with us — press play.
Rafting and kayaking on the continent's last big free-flowing river, now protected end-to-end as Europe's first Wild River National Park. Turquoise braids, thermal springs at Bënja, lively but friendly white water — and the knowledge that nothing upstream was ever dammed.
For a few weeks each spring, snowmelt turns the Osumi into the Balkans' most theatrical rafting: 20 kilometres of sculpted canyon, waterfalls pouring off the rims, walls closing to a corridor of light. Short season, long memory.
Sea kayaking and SUP along the Riviera — limestone capes, hidden coves reachable only by water, beach lunches in villages the road forgot. Paddle past Porto Palermo's fortress or out to caves the boats can't enter.
Dawn paddles on waters older than the continent's memory — Ohrid, a UNESCO lake a million years deep in stories; wild, bird-loud Prespa; the reed labyrinths of Shkodra. Perfect stand-alone days, and the easiest way to add water to any Albania itinerary.
Our signature water expedition crosses the peninsula from the deep river country of Bosnia, through Montenegro’s great gorges, down to the wild rivers of Albania — a paddling journey through three countries’ best water, with everything in between arranged: transfers, borders, beds, tables.
The full route isn’t published — journeys like this are designed for the people who take them. Write to us and we’ll draw yours.
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Every trip runs with experienced, licensed water guides — full safety briefing before launch, helmets and buoyancy aids on white water, routes chosen daily by water level and your group's ability.
Rafts, kayaks, SUPs, paddles, wetsuits where the water asks for them, dry bags for your things. You bring swimwear, sunscreen and the appetite for a riverside lunch.
Transfers to put-in and from take-out, accommodation on multi-day trips, meals, and a plan B when the river has other ideas — the full DMC behind every paddling day.
No paddling experience is needed for most of our waters — guides handle the technique, you handle the grinning. Families do beautifully on the Vjosa’s gentler stretches and the lakes; the Osumi in high spring and open-sea days ask for a bit more nerve and fitness. Tell us honestly who’s coming, and we’ll match the water to the group — never the group to the water.
Dates, group, swimming comfort — and the water you're dreaming about, if you know it.
The right river, lake or coast for your season and level, with a clear day-by-day and price.
More adrenaline? More picnic? A rest day in Gjirokastra? We adjust until it fits.
Guides, kit, transfers, beds and meals — all managed on the ground by our own team.
We’ll tell you where the water will be best that week — and we’ll say so if the season is wrong for what you had in mind.
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