Country Info
- Tirana
- Capital
- Lek (ALL)
- Currency
- 3,510,484
- Population
- AL
- Country Code
Albania Slideshow
Albania
Travel Blogs from Albania
Butrint
... place. Some of the best ruins I've seen. We found a much less crowded bus for a more comfortable ride back to Saranda, where we stumbled into an Internet cafe and I now write this. Tomorrow we head deeper into Albania, to Gjirokaster. More from there! ...
Tirana - city of cafes and dust
... the progress. Modern petrol stations (oddly, all with english-only signs reading 'unleaded' etc), ATMs that accept foreign bank cards (Albania's the last country in Europe to get these) and many good new buildings that make you forget about the dreary, ...
Like a Berat out of hell
... century 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 ...
Albania
... , our planning led us to the new port on Corfu, and then on to a hydrofoil for the 25 minute journey to Sarande in Albania. Poor internet connections and not much time away from the boat in Corfu meant that we only managed to squeeze in an hour's ...
Saranda
... like vodka but tastes like apple schnapps (Barry will know what I mean!) but its made from white grapes. No small tastings in Albania either! Gyros for dinner again - ah, those awesome doner kebab pita wraps! (And cheap!) To get to Tirana (via the ...
Welcome to the Balkan's
What a journey! What was supposed to take a car 3 hours from Monodendri (Greece) to Berat (Albania), took us 10 hours! Our day begun by trying our luck at hitch-hiking 40km's to the nearest large town to which we could get a bus to the border. We were ...
Tirana
Tirana was hot and dusty with heaps and heaps of construction/demolition work (you just can't tell)! We found a room that turned out to be a bit dodgy but quite cheap...all of this secured our decision to move on right away towards Montenegro. After ...
Entering Albania, the land of car washes
As the bus pulled up to the main square of Shkodra, a small city in northern Albania, the bus driver pointed to a bus on the other side of the square and said "Tirana". We boarded that bus and waited. And waited. And waited. About ...
Ksamili Beach - Albania
... ½ very, very tiring hrs and we were shattered (but at least we and the van were still in one piece). Another thing about Albania - do they own the Mercedes company or what? At least 60-70% of the cars were straight off their showroom ...
orikum
We crossed the border into Albania with very little paperwork, just €10 per person in tax, nothing for insurance (we're assuming that meant we weren't covered!) and a new stamp in the passport. The road was absolute crap (narrow and patched so many ...
Shqiperi Doo Dah
... to throw things at us, they realised we were English so let us oue to enjoy a few Tirana beers on King Zog I Bulevardi. Albania has a really nice feel to it - immediately we liked it, despite Tirana being Europe's most polluted capital in 2004 and a ...
Gjirokaster - Albania
... dark looking slate grey village perched on a hill (not unlike a set from a vampire movie). On to the survey : Albania loves a : New service station (thousands being built), mobile carwashes (man with jetwasher every ten paces), stolen high end ...
Berat takes us by storm
The best days of travel or those including small chance encounters with the sublime and unfamiliar; by that metric, our day in Berat has surpassed most. Berat is a city of quarters. I will now provide a brief and probably largely inaccurate history of ...
Albania-Aiui!
... euros ao xulo do taxista pa me levar a 1a cidade...bem, qd la xeguei...como ja tive em paises arabes, n estranhei mt...Albania e a passagem entre a Europa e o medio oriente...tipo turkia(imagino...nunca la fui)Mas ha q admitir q o melhor q a albania tem, ...
lake running trail and Block district
The trail next to the lake right behind the sheraton was a great place to run. Its about 2KM out and back and there's plenty of others running around the lake during the day as well. Goto the "Block" or Biloku area in the evening for ...
tirana, capitale d'albanie...
encore une fois, bonjour de tirana...je suis devant un ordinateur qui aiguise ma patience... je comprends pourquoi ilcoute moins cher qu'ailleurs... finalement pas tant que ca, puisqu'il faut plus de temps pour lire et ecrire les messages...minute de ...
Crossing into Albania
I slept so well the night before, Al has the most comfortable beds, and so much space, including a guest bedroom and guest bathroom! In the morning I had time for a coffee with Al at home, then we went and had fish chowder for breakfast. Instead of the ...
Gjirokaster, Fortress City
While Gjirokaster got the brunt of the damage during countrywide rioting in 1997, it remains a museum quality town. Deemed the town of a thousand stairs, Gjirokaster climbs up the Gjere mountain and offers beautiful views of the Drino river valley. ...
Sweat, Liquid Dreams, UHT and other liquids
... 8217;. I remember dancing to this song on my desk on the last day of 4th class (that puts me at around 10 years old). Oh Albania, its time to move on. In the evening I met up with a guy from the internet who looked absolutely nothing like his pictures. I ...
flaner a gjirokaster
bonjour tout le monde... mon sejour ici est rafraichissant, pas tant par la pluie qui s'en ve et revient mais a cause des conversations interessantes et du festival culturel... hier soir je suis alle ecouter des chansons polyphoniques- genre musique ...
Igominista to some small town near Konispol
... . That's when I had my second laugh. As I began riding away from the border I started sizing up the situation. I was in Albania now and there were no Asphalt roads to be seen, just muddy gravel routs going up and down through the hilly terrain. As I ...
Cold weather, power outages, and litter
... slightly to the side or directly in front of where they happen to be standing. Rolling power outages are a regular occurrence across Albania and Tirana is no exception. In Tirana they seemed to occur twice a day - once in the early ...
encore a tirana...
bon dimanche tout le monde... ici il fait beau, pas beau, beau, pas beau... en d'autres mots, il y a du soleil puis des orages, pyuis encore du soleil... c'est remarquable combien il fait froid quand le soleil est cache... hier soir j'ai regarde sur tv5 ...
berat, une presence intriguante sur la route
et oui, le sejour a gjirokaster (qui veut dire "la ville de gjiro", celui-ci etant un personnage historique) est termine... mais il s'est termine en beaute... hier en terminant sur l'internet, un homme dans la soixantaine m'a interpele en allemand ...
un qui-pro-quo embarrassant
encore une fois bonjour... il pleut encore mais il fait moins froid... hier soir je suis retourne au festival des musiques populaires... c'etait meilleur que la veille, moins amateur et une audience plus adulte...j'etais en jeans, t-shirt et ...