Dr. Jack Wheeler, called the Real Life Indiana Jones by the Wall Street Journal after visiting every country in the world, has recently visited Albania with friends and family from the United States of America. Wheeler booked a grand trip of Albania through the Albanian Rafting Group, which took him and his friends from the top to the bottom of our beautiful country!
The group started in Tirana and then travelled to Berat, visiting the Osumi Canyons and the COBO winery. They then moved on to rafting in the Vjosa River, hiking in the Sopoti waterfalls, and enjoying the thermal baths of Permet. Next, the group visited the UNESCO-heritage listed town of Gjirokaster, and the Syri Kalter Blue Eye Spring, before travelling further south to experience the natural beauty of the beaches of Saranda and the Ksamil Islands. Finally, Dr. Wheeler and his group visited the 7th Century BC Butrint archaeological national park, and then Porto Palermo Castle on their way back to Tirana.
Click here to watch Dr. Jack Wheeler's review of rafting in the Osumi Canyons!
Dr. Wheeler has his own adventure travel company, Wheeler Expeditions, founded in 1976. For over 40 years, he has been leading tours to remote place all over the world. He has traveled to every country in the world, wrote The Adventurer’s Guide (New York: Mackay, 1975), and has appeared on tv and radio many times to talk about the incredible adventures of his life.
Dr. Wheeler has experienced the three “first contacts” with tribes never before contacted by the outside world. He retraced Hannibal’s route over the Alps with elephants; led expeditions in Central Asia, China, Tibet, Africa and the Amazon. He's been on 21 expeditions to the North Pole, and is in The Guinness Book of World Records for the first free fall sky-dive in history at the North Pole. He loves sharing best of class expeditions to unusual and exciting parts of the planet, and we're so thrilled that he has chosen Albanian Rafting Group to show his and his friends the best of Albania - thank you for visiting us Dr. Wheeler!
