Looking for a new destination to explore? Try the Balkans

Lake Skadar, not far from the Adriatic coast between Montenegro and Albania, is the largest lake on the Balkan Peninsula. — MARTIN LEWICKI/dpa

Travellers searching for a holiday destination they haven’t yet tried out yet are starting to look at a corner of Europe that promises breathtaking scenery, seclusion and relief for the travel budget: the Balkans.

That the region is still somewhat overlooked might be explained by the fact that in the period of 1991-2001, it was a place of bloody national and ethnic conflict following the breakup of Yugoslavia.