Tirana, Albania Travel Blogs

how to make 3 countries in 1 day
Jul 24, 2008 (16 photos)

... was truly excited about the fact that he passed the "third world" curtain and actually only because of this fact he found himself in Albania. He turned towards the nearest pub though; the guy was supposed to be back in Ohrid on the same day, in ...

Albania
Sep 8, 2007

... them our experiences may not have been the same, but even so we would like to suggest people seriously consider Albania as a summer holiday destination. The people are friendly, genuine, and love the English. The capital is a fascinating place, ...

Scarecrows and Teddy Bears
Aug 18, 2007

... , not to mention knowing where your bus will leave from. Jane befriends four fellow Slovaks who have a guidebook to Albania, something we are lacking. They confidently stride off in the direction of the recommended hotel and we follow. Somewhere along ...

albania
Jul 13, 2008 (11 photos)

... one building to pink and purple circles on another. Their origins stem from a guy who was either elected president of Albania or mayor of Tirana, I'm not sure which, when there was no money in the country and everybody was struggling. He was an artist and ...

Albania
Sep 25, 2009 (1 photos)

Hallo zusammen und Gruesse aus Tirana, Albanien, Land Nummer 124:-) Bin um kurz vor 9 in Tirana eingetroffen, die Strasse im Kosovo war schrecklich, der Grenzuebergang ziemlich merkwuerdig, es gibt zwar Kontrollposten, aber niemand hat die Paesse der ...

The capital of chaos (sounds rather dramatic eh)
Mar 28, 2007 (10 photos)

... did everything he could to ensure that we had a great time! Thanks Deni! I will give you a little back ground: - Tirana and Albania have a very underdeveloped tourism industry, but i think that in a few years the country will boom... - It is a very ...

Tirana capital of Albania
Aug 20, 2006

31st day of travelling. Now are 3450km gone. Confusion on the border to Albania. No signs what to do, and what they want. Finally I managed to get a visa and enterd. Tirana is quite boring. Nothing realy to see. Countinue to Lake Ohrid on the border to ...

Journey throught the poorest European country
Jul 23, 2006 (6 photos)

... or worse. They told us to take a ferry around Albania, stopping in Italy, to get to Dubrovnik, Croatia... We had researched Albania on-line, spoke with family that lived there, and asked people about how it was traveling though. We heard really no ...

Tough Tirane
Apr 23, 2008

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Long way through Albania
Sep 12, 2006 (27 photos)

... aussies or pomies, just people with beards. There was an outdoor kitchen. But it was cheaper to buy food. Everyone in Albania has a Mercedes. Apparently most have been stolen from the rest of europe. For such a poor country with broken pavement, no bus ...

Shqiperia
Aug 10, 2008 (3 photos)

... and avoiding any nasty collisions with the other Mercedes........... because you see the Republic of Shqiperia - a.k.a. Albania - went throught the nineties in a lawless ride..... and part of the fun in those days was to go ...

Concrete hodge-podge in technicolor
Jun 26, 2007 (1 photos)

... we got a swift hour and a half ride down a beautifully resurfaced road to the capital. Not at all what I expected! Albania's getting its act together, apparently. The same couple also happened to have reservations at the same hostel I had booked into, ...

Tough Tirane
Apr 23, 2008 (27 photos)

... souls, looking for an escape from the mundane week-long all-inclusive. He is currently researching for a motorcycle tour across Albania.   From Vlore north to Tirane, the terrain has been much easier on us although not nearly as beautiful. ...

Albania: borders opened to the world 1992
Aug 30, 2005 (6 photos)

Finally made it to Albania after 3 days traveling via bus, taxi and furgon (a mini van with random people getting on and off along the way, very confusing) and its capital Tirana was a full on culture shock after the lovely seaside Croatia. The centre is ...

Arriving in Albania
Sep 9, 2008 (5 photos)

... . There were many beaches along the coast, all seemed to be packed with people. Then it was on through the border with Albania. What a difference in scenery. We moved away from the coast and it was so evident that this was a very undeveloped part of the ...

An interesting and rewarding country
Jul 23, 2006 (1 photos)

... and rewarding" part. Despite all the discomfort and uncertainty of the journey that day especially, and throughout my time in Albania, getting from place to place has always been a bit more of an adventure than elsewhere in Europe. Yet every time, it has ...

Poverty drives a mercedes
Jul 17, 2006 (3 photos)

... . I think the only reason it took the better part of half a day was because of the state of Albania's roads. That's an experience in itself! Tirana is different. The second poorest country in Europe, and it's very obvious in the capital. Not so much for ...

Albania (the destination we are most proud of)
May 16, 2005 (4 photos)

We intended on getting a bus to the capital of Albania, Tirana but were convinced by a taxi driver (who would naturally be making a few Euro's out of us) that the easiest way to get to the capital was to take his taxi to the Macedonian/Albanian border and ...

Bunker spotting
Jun 30, 2007

... . Given the amount of horror stories (read: hogwash) running rampant about the place in neighboring countries, it's good to get here and see what's really happening. No two ways about it: Albania's a severely underrated and seriously interesting place.

Capital of Albania
Sep 26, 2009 (39 photos)

... wenigstens sind die Strassen in Albanien recht gut). Hatte dann nur ein paar Stunden Tageslicht, aber das reicht aus, um Tirana zu sehen. Das Nationalmuseum ist ganz nett und etwas groeser als das Museum des Kosovo. Die Geschichte Albaniens hoert mit 1945 ...

In Albania - Part Deux
Jul 10, 2005

Hello again from Tirana, Albania. Although the phones are unreliable, well so is the power, in the compound we are staying we have found a way to get into town this Sunday morning after church and find an Internet cafe. So, we will now both share some ...

Mireidita (hello) from Albania
Jul 9, 2005

... USA vs Albania, East vs West!! The short story is that he demolished me at chess (found out later he is ranked 3rd in Albania), but I made a huge comeback in ping-pong to put him in his place. During the visit I realized that this was more than just a ...

Back to Tirana for goodbyes
Jul 29, 2007

... I can't believe how attached I've become to the people in Pascaqan after only knowing them a week. Clara (as they call her in Albania) was particularly distraught about having to leave again- she loves it here! I think we might be back next year though...

Introduction to Albanians
Oct 27, 2007 (9 photos)

... who are one in a million. I had lost count how many times I encountered amazing generosity during the last 9 days in Albania.  I can only create a list of the most memorable.   Albanians' random acts of kindness: -    & ...

Introduction to Albania
Nov 16, 2007 (4 photos)

... country from western Europe, and even today, I noticed a surprisingly high percentage (20-30%) of Mercs on Tirana's roads. Odd for Albania's population, 30% of whom live in poverty, no? Additionally, a decent number of collective farms became marijuana ...

A Further Less Mysterious Country
Jul 3, 2007

More to come...

Albania at last
Mar 14, 2007 (6 photos)

After 17 years, I finally made it in. 

Albania
Jul 24, 2007

... it's getting to about 40 degrees during the day. Oh, that's in the shade too. So at the moment am in an internet cafe in Tirana centre, which has AC, but am not looking forward to going back out into the midday sun! Also have a feeling I wont be able to ...

June 20: In Albania, Muslims eat pork
Jun 20, 2009 (2 photos)

Albania is a strange place where strange things happen. For example, under the former dictator, Hoxha, for many years it was the most closed and isolated country in the world, with only one ally: Mao's China (N. Korea has at least 2: China and Russia); and ...

Trying Times in Tirana
Sep 17, 2007 (10 photos)

... book our tickets to Shkodra, a town near the border with Montenegro, for the next day. It's been a colourful, crazy, occasionally frustrating time in Albania, but we definitely haven't had a dull moment! All our best from Albania, Dan and Gabrielle