Half Day tours are great options for visitors who are visiting Prishtina shortly. Since there are abudant attractions in the town and all round it, all of them very special and unique which fits to you interests, motives and requests, we are offering three options for Half Day Tours:
PRISHTINA WALKING TOUR
City Walking Tour provides you with a best way to get to know Prishtina. It delivers an insightful, interesting, funny and learning tour to explore the best of the town. It’s a general and comprehensive tour which takes you, not only to the most of tourist attractions, historic, cultural, religious and architectural heritage but we go through hidden local alleys.
This tour is organized to reward the interest of many visitors, groups of scholars, tourists, friends, familiars and similar organized groups. It is delivered by experienced local city guides which will make your visit in Prishtina awesome and completed with their interesting introduction to the city, information, inputs of historic, cultural heritage and social life as local hints about lovely spots to relax, eat, entertain in order to try being local for a while.
The youngest capital in Europe, even though a small town, has a lot to see, offer, learn and do! It hides a history of around 6000 years, various rules, lots of intrigues, myths, religious transformations cultural heritage and ethnological background which leads to an interesting diversity of historic, cultural, religious and social values. That’s why you probably need proper local passionate guides to point it out to, and make you reach the best of the town.
Tour Price:
1 Up to 5 guests – 50 €,
for 6 – 9 guest 70€,
and 10 – 20 guests group – 100€
Availability: It should be booked at least 24 hour before.
Duration: Around 2 hrs.
Walking Distance: around 4 KM
Route of the Tour (stops):
- Statue of Skenderbeg
- Bazaar mosque (the oldest mosque in the country),
- Clock tower,
- Sulltan Mehmet Fatih Mosque,
- Grand Hamam of the town,
- Ethnographic Museum,
- We walk through the bazzaar of the town,
- Yugoslavian obelisk of the Brotherhood and unity,
- City center – St. Teresa boulevard,
- New Born monument,
- Youth sport Center,
- Heroinat monument,
- Famous Library of the town, and
- St Teresa Cathedral.
- Bill Clinton Statue
Our local guides are professional, experienced, acknowledged , friendly and passionate to share local hidden gems with you, to tell you the story of the town, the vibe which makes it really lovely to live in and to hang around.
Short organized walking tour around the town with enthusiastic guides are exactly what you need to see, listen, learn and explore PRISHTINA. It takes around 2.5 hour to walk around and get to understand the best sense of the city. Welcome and enjoy the best sightseeing in Prishtina by a short and friendly guided tour!
Monastery & Bear Tour
After your are done with touring Prishtina, The Orthodox Monastery of Gracanica as well as 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)
Tour Price:
59€ (1 – 4 guests)
Included:
Transportation,
Companion & Guide
Fun and knowledge
Not Included
Entry Tickets. Three entries require an entry ticket of 2E each. So bear in mind of three tickets to be paid.
Tip & gratuities
Personal Expenses
Available Time: It is available for every day. We 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.
Monastery of Gracanica
It is an Orthodox monastery and UNESCO’S World Heritage site of Gračanica, in Serbian Municipality 7 km driving from the city center, on the way to Bear Sanctuary. The church was reconstructed in the 14th century atop the ruins of a 6th century basilica dedicated to the Virgin Maria.
The characteristic of the church is having five meaningful cupolas. 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.
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 area and provide a kind of natural habitat to many local brown bears formerly kept as restaurant bears in Kosovo and Albania, aiming at attracting more guests. 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.
PRISHTINA SOUTH EAST TOUR
Prishtina EAST Tour takes you to Explore the unique gems around Prishtina: It has a mixed and combined relevance of Four spots representing religious, cultural/historic, natural, and archaeological heritage.
SPOTS included in the tour:
- Impressive Monastery of Gracanica
- Mysterious marble cave of Gadime,
- Archeological Roman town of Ulpiana
- Amazing Bear Sanctuary.
“Four Spots you shouldn’t miss around Prishtina”.
Tour Price: 75 €
1 up to 4 people;
Transport & Guide & Companion
Availability: It should be booked at least 24 hour before.
Duration: Around 3.5 – 4 hrs.
Tour Distance: around 70 KM
Not Included
Entry Tickets. Three entries require an entry ticket of 2E each. So, bear in mind of three tickets to be paid.
Tip & gratitues
Personal Expenses
Itinerary
Once you meet the guide in the suggested place, you are introduced with the content of the tour then we move forward to the Eastern Part of Prishtina. Our first stop in the way, it’s the famous Gracanica Monastery (UNESCO Heritage List), where you’ll be fascinated with the extra-ordinary interior of full of magnificent frescoes. The guide of Monastery would be happy to explain you the interesting story of the monastery which dates from 1321 and it’s been always in service till nowadays.
Impressed with the Monastery, we’ll continue around one more KM further to explore the archaeological park of Ulpiana. It is the most important archaeological site in Kosovo, representing an old civilization of Dardanian Kingdom from the bronze age.
Historically, during the 3nd and 4th Century AC it became one of the five most important Roman Towns in Balkan Peninsula. We will explore a lot of interesting ruined of the ancient town which still is under excavation.
Afterwards we move towards Marble cave of Gadime which is as 10 more KM away. It’s an wonderful cave with lots of interesting galleries with full of mysteries. The tour into the cave takes an half an hour and is guided by the respective guide of the cave.
Bear Sanctuary: Right after the cave we depart to Bear Sanctuary. It is a lovely natural park with hilarious brown bears all around. It is awesome to see the Bears playing up and down all the day long. It is a story of survival, love and dedication for bears.
Available Time: It is available for every day, usually meet by 12 PM. But the tour can be rescheduled as specially required.
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