Highlights of the TOUR
After your are done with touring Prishtina, Bear Sanctuary it’s a place not to miss.
It is just around 20 km out of Prishtina. Driving alongside the lake of Badovc, walking and hiking at hilly Sanctuary park and watching lovely brown bears all around it’s a wonderful experience.
On the way to the bears, we also stop and visit the famous Monastery of Gracanica.
Spots in this tour:
– AMAZING BEAR SANCTUARY
– IMPRESSIVE MONASTERY OF GRACANICA (UNESCO HERITAGE LIST)
Price: 59€
up to 6 people
Transport & Companion
Available Time: It is available for every day, usually meet by 13 PM. But the time can be rescheduled as requested at a required time.
Meeting place. We usually meet near Center center (our office), respectively at Prishtina Grand Hotel, but we can pick you up at a certain place.
Duration: Tour takes around 3.5 – 4 hours
Walk * Hike * Discover * Sight-see
REMARK: Visiting the Bear Sanctuary it’s an exciting experience where you will see a lot of brown bears closely, but it also implies a considerable hilly hiking. That’s why, you should be wearing a proper shoes and a bottle of water it’s desired. But you can by fresh water and drinks at the restaurant of the Sanctuary.
Highlight of the Sights
The BEAR SANCTUARY in Kosovo
BEAR SANCTUARY Prishtina is located near the village of Mramor. about 20 KM from Prishtina. It covers around 10 hectares of developed are and provide a kind of natural habitat and lifelong home to many local brown bears formerly kept as restaurant bears in Kosovo and Albania, aiming at attracting more guests or even other ones kept illegally as pets by Kosovar families. Here, the bears have the chance to live under professional supervision and in an environment suited to their species. Now we have 20 bears in our sanctuary.
Thanks to the work of FOUR PAWS and BEAR SANCTUARY Prishtina, no bears have been kept in captivity by private owners since 2014.
Monastery of Gracanica
An Orthodox monastery and UNESCO’S World Heritage site of Gračanica, is in Serbian Municipality 7 km driving from the city center, on the way to Bear Sanctuary. The church was reconstructed in the in 14th century atop the ruins of a 6th century basilica dedicated to the Virgin Maria.
The characteristic of the church is having five cupolas, the central one dedicated to the Lord Christ and four others domes in four corners for Apostles (Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John) as a difference from other Orthodox churches. The gradual raises of domes upwards, distinguishing altar space culminating with thousands of frescoes depicting Saint faces, events from Bibles, the Christ life, old testament and similar images crown this religious and architectural complex.
