Cyprus, officially called the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean. Today Cyprus is a popular tourist destination for visitors from Europe, favoured by honeymooners, bird-watchers drawn by the island’s diversity of migratory species, and other vacationers.

Slovakia is roughly coextensive with the historic region of Slovakia, the easternmost of the two territories that from 1918 to 1992 constituted Czechoslovakia.

Slovenia, a country in Central Europe, is known for its mountains, ski resorts and lakes. On Lake Bled, a glacial lake fed by hot springs, the town of Bled contains a church-topped islet and a cliffside medieval castle.

Albania, on Southeastern Europe’s Balkan Peninsula, is a small country with Adriatic and Ionian coastlines and an interior crossed by the Albanian Alps. The country has many castles and archaeological sites.

Malta is an archipelago in the central Mediterranean between Sicily and the North African coast. It's a nation known for historic sites.

Bulgaria is a Balkan nation with diverse terrain encompassing Black Sea coastline, a mountainous interior and rivers, including the Danube.