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Eat domestic food and join local communities
Explore nature of Western Balkans with us
Welcome to our paradise known for extraordinary nature treasures and tremendous history! Let us take you on a journey exploring the Western Balkans, with a focus on eco and rural values of local communities and spiced up with some adrenaline nature adventures and delicious food! Pick one or more of our 8 carefully curated tours and immerse in exploring crystal clear lakes and rivers, mountaintop villages, hiking breath-taking areas, ski-shoeing and much more!
Explore-Balkans brought stakeholders together to develop joint products/tours that combine unique ecotourism, rural tourism, and adventure tourism with gastronomic experiences.
Let’s start exploring together!
Explore Balkans
Explore-Balkans brought travel professionals together to develop joint products/packages that combine unique ecotourism, rural tourism, adventure tourism with gastronomic experiences. What you can see on this website is the best selection of Western Balkans travels brought to you by professionals teams from Western Balkans countries.
Goal
To show the real beauty of Western Balkans to the world.
Mission
To increase the interest in the Western Balkans travels.
Vision
To contribute to the sustainable tourism development in the Western Balkans through a rural and eco approach.
Join us in Exploring Balkans!
We take you to unforgettable journies around the Western Balkans, with the focus on eco, rural, and adventure approach! Join our community, to always get our best offers first!
Travel Blog
Top 11 Sights to Visit in Kosovo
Let us bring you the top places to visit in a country of tremendous cultural and historical heritage - Kosovo. Located in the centre of the Balkan peninsula, this natural paradise should be on your bucket list! We share with you our top 11 picks! Patriarchate of Pec...
Cultural Heritage of the Balkans – Bridge Over Drina
There are many great stories and places in the Western Balkans, and today we are bringing you the one about the bridge that got the Nobel prize! No, not the bridge itself but the story around it, written by a great writer Ivo Andric. The Bridge on the Drina holds the...
Who is behind the brand Explore Balkans?
Standing Working Group for Regional Rural Development (SWG) in SEE is an intergovernmental organization, operating on national and regional level, responsible for initiation and preparation of regional development projects in South Eastern Europe. It acts as independent regional agency for promoting sustainable agriculture and rural development in SEE region. SWG is working to empower and promote sustainable principles on rural development, through networking and permanent cooperation between all stakeholders of rural development in SEE region.
