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8 days · Cycling

Road cycling adventure - Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Albania

Join this super diverse cycling tour and experience the diversity of the three countries, but also the very many elements they have in common. At first you will enjoy warm hospitality, discover unique and iconic landscapes and places and last but not least you will reward yourself with delicious local dishes and drinks.

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Road cycling adventure - Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Albania

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Length: 8 days
Pace: Moderate
Activity: Cycling
Style: Guided
Where: Balcony of Enver Hoxer

About this trip

A trip we'd happily do again next month

This is one of our signature cycling journeys in Albania · Croatia · Montenegro · Bosnia and Herzegovina. We've ridden it ourselves, in more than one season, and shaped it into something we're genuinely proud of.

You'll be in a small group, led by a local guide who knows the trails, the families along the way, and the best place to stop for lunch. Nothing rushed, nothing scripted.

Your trip

Day by day

Open any day to read it in full, with a photograph from each one. This is how the trip usually flows, not a fixed schedule — distances, climbs and overnight stops are tuned to your group before anything is booked.

Day 1
Arrival to Trebinje in Bosnia & Hercegovina
Individual arrival at Dubrovnik/Podgorica/Tivat airport. Optional transfer to Trebinje in Bosnia & Hercegovina. Orientation meeting and bike fitting.Have stroll in the old town. The architecture of two different quarters reflect the historical meeting point of Orient and Occident. Overnight in Trebinje.Read the full day →
Individual arrival at Dubrovnik/Podgorica/Tivat airport. Optional transfer to Trebinje in Bosnia & Hercegovina. Orientation meeting and bike fitting.Have stroll in the old town. The architecture of two different quarters reflect the historical meeting point of Orient and Occident. Overnight in Trebinje.
Day 2
From Trebine to Ston in Croatia (up to 81km/+1000m/-1300m)
Start your epic bike journey above the Adriatic coastline. You enter into Croatia just above of Dubrovnik. You pass the town and marvel its beauty from above and continue to follow a side road with beautiful views above the Adriatic shoreline. Your todays final destination is the UNESCO site the wall of Ston. Treat yourself with mussels right from the sea and locally produced wine from Pjelesac peninsula.Read the full day →
Start your epic bike journey above the Adriatic coastline. You enter into Croatia just above of Dubrovnik. You pass the town and marvel its beauty from above and continue to follow a side road with beautiful views above the Adriatic shoreline. Your todays final destination is the UNESCO site the wall of Ston. Treat yourself with mussels right from the sea and locally produced wine from Pjelesac peninsula.
Day 3
from Ston Croatia to Trebinje Bosnia & Hercegovina (up to 85 km/+900m/-700m)
Your return to Bosnia starts with a gentle ascent to the mountains. The boarder crossing is in the middle of nowhere. Back in Bosnia, at former railway station you can have lunch break. From there again you are following the former railway line Ciro until Trebinje. Meet your driver and transfer (2,5hrs) to Durmitor Nationalpark in Montenegro. Overnight in Durmitor.Read the full day →
Your return to Bosnia starts with a gentle ascent to the mountains. The boarder crossing is in the middle of nowhere. Back in Bosnia, at former railway station you can have lunch break. From there again you are following the former railway line Ciro until Trebinje. Meet your driver and transfer (2,5hrs) to Durmitor Nationalpark in Montenegro. Overnight in Durmitor.
Day 4
Durmitor National park – Tara Canyon (max. 82km/+1100/-1750m)
Your today’s cycling adventure starts with a beautiful panorama tour. All the time the mountains of Durmitor offer you a great and dramatic panorama, before you downhill to the famous Tara bridge, which spans over the deepest canyon of Europe, the Tara Canyon. You follow the road right above the emerald green waters of Tara river, to Mojkovac. From here you are shuttled (2h) to Prokletije National Park in the far east of Montenegro at the boarder with Albania.Read the full day →
Your today’s cycling adventure starts with a beautiful panorama tour. All the time the mountains of Durmitor offer you a great and dramatic panorama, before you downhill to the famous Tara bridge, which spans over the deepest canyon of Europe, the Tara Canyon. You follow the road right above the emerald green waters of Tara river, to Mojkovac. From here you are shuttled (2h) to Prokletije National Park in the far east of Montenegro at the boarder with Albania.
Day 5
Into Albania (max. 105km/+1600m/-2600m)
A fantastic cycling adventure takes you today to the sleepy Albanian mountain villages and to the “ Balcony of Enver Hoxer” (picture). You cycle a road which was only very recently rebuilt and got a tarmarc surface and therefore now conveniently connects this beautiful mountainous part of Albania with the city of Shkodra.Read the full day →
A fantastic cycling adventure takes you today to the sleepy Albanian mountain villages and to the “ Balcony of Enver Hoxer” (picture). You cycle a road which was only very recently rebuilt and got a tarmarc surface and therefore now conveniently connects this beautiful mountainous part of Albania with the city of Shkodra.
Day 6
Great panoramas above the shoreline of Lake Skadar (max. 96 km/+1640m/-1640m)
Today you return to Montenegro and cycle the southern shoreline of Lake Skadar. You explore a remote and very unique region – sleepy villages, ancient chestnut groves and monastery islands, a prison island, vineyards and all the time great panoramas. Your cycling concludes in Rijeka Crnojevica, a former market place at the lake in Montenegro. Shuttle (20min) and overnight in Cetinje, the old royal capital of Montenegro.Read the full day →
Today you return to Montenegro and cycle the southern shoreline of Lake Skadar. You explore a remote and very unique region – sleepy villages, ancient chestnut groves and monastery islands, a prison island, vineyards and all the time great panoramas. Your cycling concludes in Rijeka Crnojevica, a former market place at the lake in Montenegro. Shuttle (20min) and overnight in Cetinje, the old royal capital of Montenegro.
Day 7
From Cetinje via Lovcen National Park and Tivat to the Bay of Kotor. Downhill the “Ladder of Kotor” to the Bay of Kotor (max. 73km/+1200/-1800m)
You climb on the old road from Cetinje to Lovcen National Park, which peaks rise above the Bay of Kotor. In a next stage you will enjoy the most beautiful downhill Montenegro has to offer - the 25 serpentines full of panoramas above the bay. After these you arrive in Tivat. From there continue to follow the shoreline towards Kotor. Overnight in Kotor.Read the full day →
You climb on the old road from Cetinje to Lovcen National Park, which peaks rise above the Bay of Kotor. In a next stage you will enjoy the most beautiful downhill Montenegro has to offer - the 25 serpentines full of panoramas above the bay. After these you arrive in Tivat. From there continue to follow the shoreline towards Kotor. Overnight in Kotor.
Day 8
Return transfer or optional extension
Return airport transfer or extension.Read the full day →
Return airport transfer or extension.

Want this written up for your dates — distances, daily climb and where you would sleep? Ask us for the full 8-day plan. We send it before you commit to anything.

What's included

Everything that's covered

✓7 nights accommodation in double/twin room
✓7 breakfasts
✓Luggage transfers between sections
✓Orientation meeting (self-guided)
✓GPX-Tracks, Navigation application
✓Maps and roadbook
✓Local mobile phone, service line 24/7
✓Transfers according to the itinerary

Not included

What you'll arrange yourself

—Single room supplement
—Solo traveller’s supplement
—Bike rental
—Airport arrival/departure transfer
—Riding gear
—Lunches and dinner
—Drinks
—Entrance fees to National Parks, sights

What it's like to travel with us

Even better than we expected! Beautiful countries with warm and welcoming people. Both Angelica and Drazen were absolutely fantastic to work with. They both covered ever fine detail of the trip and Drazen was there to take calls even into the evening. Bikes were great also. Got a flat and they fixed it for us. The accommodations were always wonderful with some stays in historical fortresses. A trip of a lifetime that we will always have fond memories of.

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Before you travel

What you can hold us to

We have walked and ridden every route we sell

Nobody at 3E sells a trip from a map. The routes come from the people who scouted them, and when we change a stage it is because one of us has been back out on it.

We are a Montenegrin team, not an agent abroad

The office is in Podgorica. When something shifts on the ground — a closed pass, a washed-out track, a guesthouse that changed hands — we hear it the same week, not the following season.

We grade honestly, even when it loses us the booking

If a trip is harder than you want, we will say so and offer you a different one. Being talked into the wrong grade is the fastest way to spoil a week in the mountains.

Self-guided here actually works

Self-guided is most of what we do, and it is built to be self-sufficient: routes you can follow, luggage moved between stays, and a local number that is answered while you are out walking or riding.

Nothing is booked until the plan is right

We write the day-by-day first and send it to you — distances, climbs, where you sleep. You change it as often as you like before any money moves.

Twenty years in, we still run our own trips

3E has been building active journeys in Montenegro since the mid-2000s, back when almost nobody was. The trips are still designed and run by the same small team.

Pace

Moderate

Full days with real climbing in them. Nothing technical and nothing exposed, but there will be sustained ascents, uneven paths or long descents, and you will feel the day in your legs by dinner. On the cycling trips an e-bike flattens most of this if you would rather it did.

Suits

People who walk or ride regularly at home and are happy to be out for most of the day.

Probably not for

Anyone who wants short days, or who is not currently walking or riding much — say so and we will grade you down rather than sell you this.

Not sure this is your pace? Tell us how far you like to walk or ride in a day and we will tell you honestly whether this trip fits — including when the answer is no, or when a different trip of ours suits you better. Ask us about the pace.

Plan this trip

Tell us a little, we'll send you a draft

Roughly when, who's travelling and what kind of pace you like — that's all we need. We'll reply within 1–2 days with a draft itinerary and a price. Nothing is booked until you're happy.

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