I came to know about the Balkans through EU Holidays Pte Ltd. My family joined them for their "11 days Europe Highlight" group tour at a very good price which includes 2 nights free stay in Dubai, as it was the transit point flying on Emirates to Europe and back. Airport tax was also waived.
Their "11D 8N Adverture to the Balkans" would have cost us close to S$3,000 per person and this does not include transport to Singapore to join the group. I discovered that they have agents in Malaysia promoting the same package at RM10,000.00 plus per person.
I did a search and found a 11 Days package to the Balkans which includes 10 nights stay with breakfast offered by Corporate Information Travel. Their itinerary indicated a discount of 20% if payment is received before 31 January 2017 for group travel, of up to 10 to 12 pax, in 2017. The agent offered us a 10% if we pay in 2016 to travel in 2017. My family of 4 decided to go for it.
The package tour covers 7 countries in the Balkans and these are the places we visited:
Skopje (capital) and Ohrib in Macedonia
Triana (capital) in Albania
Budva and Kotor in Montenegro
Dubrovnik in Croatia
Sarajevo (capital) in Bosnia/Herzegovina
Novi Sad and Belgrade (capital) in Serbia
Sofia (capital) in Bulgaria
I found this map of Central Europe posted on the website of the University of Texas Libraries, Austin.
I have amended it because Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003. They are now independent states. A better map with boundary of Montenegro can be seen at the following link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans#/media/File:Balkan_peninsula_line.jpg
The other countries that made up former Yugoslavian republics were Bosnia and Herzegovnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Kosovo.
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