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A fast paced tour, with plenty of walking. Our leader Andreas was excellent, always going out of his way to book extra activities for group if needed during free time and giving suggestions. He was passionate about Portugal, enthusiastic, extremely well organised and looked after all needs in the group brilliantly.

The itinerary was excellent starting and ending on the "big name" places of Kotor and Dubrovnik that everyone knows about, but in between we saw many facets of the Balkans and experienced wonderful scenery at almost every turn and learned a bit about the history of the area too. Most of us were however unaware that we spent over half the trip at 1000m+ in the mountains of Montenegro and Serbia and weren't quite as prepared as we might have been so a little more advice on that (especially for shoulder season itineraries) would have been of benefit. I'd also definitely recommend you spend a couple more days in Dubrovnik if you have the time as the walking tour was great but more time to properly explore is needed. Danielija our tour leader was excellent, thoughtul, helpful and great company. Her suggestions for dinner restaurants were always spot on and the guides she found for us were all first rate.

Madeira is a hiking paradise, trails were good, great vistas, nice food, friendly people and our trip-leader Benny was superb! We were very pleased with everything, this trip was one of our best so far among two others we had with Explore.

It covers all the major cities and towns and gives a great overall picture of the 4 countries as well as travelling through the countryside to cover a great distance in the allotted time. We visited Santa, met his reindeers, viewed huskies being trained, went as far north as possible on the mainland and saw amazing scenery. We can thoroughly recommend this trip.

This was one of the first trips of the season so some museums etc ere not open but Dziugas, our excellent guide navigated round these situations well.. plenty of variety in the programme; the 3 countries all have their own individuality with histories sometimes different and sometimes divergent. Plenty of walking both in the countryside and in the cities. Interesting restaurants with good food although the service could be slow. A very good driver, always on time with a comfortable minibus.

Fast pace itinerary but well worth it. Terri our Tour Director made the trip, great knowledge, knew where to shop and made it fun! A few hotels could do with some upgrades and options to self wash is helpful to those travelling for weeks on end from Australia.