Berat, Albania Travel Blogs

Albanian hospitality
Oct 30, 2007 (7 photos)

will update later.

Town of a Thousand Windows
Sep 26, 2009 (54 photos)

... ich zu einem Ausflug nach Berat genutzt, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Die Kommunisten haben zwei Staedte, Berat und Girokastrja, zu Museumsstaedten deklariert und diese nicht zerstoert. Beide stellen heute grossartige Ensembles ottomanischer Architektur ...

Where the cars have no horns
Oct 29, 2007 (1 photos)

Had to leave the capitol. The traffic in Tirana was insane and people used their car horns liberally at 4am. This was the city where I saw an 8 year-old boys smoking just outside their elementary school..

The Town of A Thousand Windows
Nov 18, 2007 (8 photos)

Today, I got my first real experience of Albania's roads, or what there is of them. It was a pretty bumpy, rainy, muddy ride, but once I arrived in Berati (ahead of schedule) the rain did agree to hold off long enough for me to find the Hotel Mangalemi, a ...

A pleasant surprise. If only I had more time!
Jul 23, 2006 (11 photos)

... into the schedule, I owuld certainly have stayed overnight. Berat is a beautiful little town, and certainly my favourite place in Albania. Upon arrival, I had another cup of coffee and once again dumped my bag in the cafe, then set out to explore. ...

June 21, 22: Nation of Bunkers
Jun 21, 2009

The day after Tirana, I went to Berat, where things are much better. This small city is surrounded by mountains, has a well-preserved old town which is divided into a Muslim section and a Christian section by a muddy river, but they look similar: the ...

'Working' In Berat
Jun 10, 2009 (36 photos)

Berat, Albania, is a small town in the center of the country. Albania is funny because it was shut off from the world for so long during communism, and they are slowly rebuilding themselves and exploring being part of the greater world. This sounds  ...

Like a Berat out of hell
Oct 15, 2005

... Iconic painter, but I don't want to go all Bill Bryson on you and give you the boring details....... Still, as Albania is such a secular society and that it is the only country that has successfully enforced Atheism, it was impressive that things like ...

Brittany Spears and Albanian conversations
Dec 15, 2007 (21 photos)

... /fortress and the old town area on a hill above town.  We also visited the Onufri museum.  Onufri, Albania's most famous artist, mostly painted icons and other religious paintings.  Many of his paintings were originally displayed in churches ...

pleasantly surprised by Berat
Aug 22, 2007 (24 photos)

... Malvina walked me to the center and put me on a furghon (mini-bus) headed towards Tirana. I had been nervous to travel in Albania, after reading that there aren't any bus or furghon schedules, and that it can be a bit crazy and confusing, but this trip ...

Albani-ee-yeah
Aug 22, 2009

... for free and I can see why they foam at the mouth when they see a gold old aussie beach. Yesterday I left Budva for Tirana, Albania. This took about 6 hours and three different buses but I met a nice Aussie who helped pass the time. We were both in the ...

Tirana to Berat
May 11, 2007

... late 19th century Albanian nationalist alliance. In November 1944, the communist-controlled Anti-Fascist National Liberation Council of Albania declared in Berat that it was the provisional government of the country, signalling the beginning of the long ...

Confusing transport in Albania and nice Berat
May 7, 2009 (25 photos)

... . The backpackers I am staying at is brand new and they are still doing it up. That is one thing about Macedonia and Albania all the backpackers are just starting up in the past year as there has hardly been any backpackers come this way before. In a ...

Lunch in a Castle
Sep 16, 2009 (7 photos)

... the window). This makes it difficult for tourists to figure out logistics. We end up waiting almost an hour before it takes off. Albania must be the place busses go to die. They are in terrible shape internally and sometimes struggle to start. The ride is ...