Country Info
- Tirana
- Capital
- Lek (ALL)
- Currency
- 3,510,484
- Population
- AL
- Country Code
Albania Slideshow
Albania
Travel Blogs from Albania
Near Konispol to Saranda
... but I was compelled to stay hoping that I would be able to find some spare tubes for my tires, in light of road situation in Albania and since I was down to my last tube. That evening I received a free "bike wash" in one of the city's many car washing ...
Saranda to Gjirokastar
... meet a tourist on the way and one of them explained to me how he made a living off smuggling Armani perfumes from Greece into Albania. As the rain died down, now smelling of Armani perfume (proud of his work the guy swore it was original) I continued ...
heading south
... respective programs. We got a cheap dinner nearby. I had a delecious suvlach (we call it a gyro in America.) I often ate suvlach in Albania and I was very impressed. You find it all over the Balkans, and the only ones i've had to rival the Albanian ones I ...
pleasantly surprised by Berat
... 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 ...
Blizzards, snow ploughs and potholes
... crossing. Once we finally arrived at a paved road we soon saw for ourselves the other difficulty when driving in Albania. The drivers appear to have no fear of death whatsoever. We were constantly overtaken directly in front of oncoming ...
NEXT TO EUROPE'S LEFTOUT
... misinterpreting the culture. After all, most guys I spoke to were well-meaning. Regardless, after 137 hours, Albania was leaving a negative impression. Friendly Alessandro and his firefly-catching children and freshfish-cooking wife were my ...
Shit everywhere!!!!
... ' over here as shit, unfortunately, seems to be the word for 'sales' or 'free' and so appears on most shopfronts. Albania is a bizarre country that really does seem a bit alien in Europe. Its a mostly muslim country, with a very unusual and unique ...
to the beach
... abandoned building about a 40 minute walk south of the city near to a fun club. John, one of the PCVs, explained that Albania has weird property laws which give ownership rights to anyone who builds on a piece of land, instead of someone just buying the ...
More Tirana time and general Albanian observations
... ) and partially because of my lack of Albanian language skills and the general lack of English-speakers in the country. Albania was a very dirty country. All through the countryside and in the cities there is trash everywhere. Especially ...
Pogradec... still
... really smart and ambitious - both Malvina and Aluna will start university, Malvina studying to be a doctor, Aluna a lawyer. It seems like Albania is on the verge of a change, with girls in their twenties and younger the first to have the chance to study ...
korça, premier contact avec l'albanie...
enfin en albanie...je reve depuis longtemps d'etre ici'''mes 1 eres impressions: tout d'abord c'est un pays plus pauvre, avec moins d'infrastroctires... avwc lws autres pays des balkans, il a en commun le style de vie re;ax: les bar-cafe sont pleins ...
Finally reaching my destination, sort of
... compared to all the others) and head out of Sarande. The frustration had built up and I was ready to get out of Albania. I had originally planned to head to Gjirokaster and go through Korca to get into Macedonia, but when the bus I boarded to ...
24 bottles of sunflower oil
... with sellotape. We motioned to put on our seatbelts and the driver laughed – they don’t do seatbelts in Albania apparently. I had a feeling that even if we crashed, the car would instantly explode and seatbelts wouldn’t be much use ...
Brittany Spears and Albanian conversations
... /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 ...
gjirokastra, une recompense apres un voyage eprouv
bonjour tout le monde...apres une bien courte nuit car l'autobus partait a 6 heures, j'ai reussi a m'y rendre sans avoir de bleus nulle part... amelioration...le voyage se faisait dans les montagnes, dans des petites routes tournoyantes a l'extreme... ...
Furniture shop, furniture shop, petrol station....
... Scotland. We wandered around the ramparts which had amazing views of the surrounding valley. Its clear that tourism is new in Albania and that’s definitely one of the things that makes it appealing. Theres no security barriers or hordes of Japanese ...
A frustrating day
... nbsp; We passed by tree-lined rivers where there were still fall colors on some of the trees with mossy green hills nearby and snow-covered mountains in the distance. I actually started to think that Albania did have some beautiful places in ...
Day 107: Neo Tirana
tirana, une capitale qui se renouvelle
re-salut... j'ai quitte berat ce matin avec le sentiment que je ne lui avais pas rendu l'honneur qui lui est du... en effet, je pense que berat est la plus jolie ville que j'aie visite en albanie jusqu'ici: tout d'abord c'est aussi une ville patrimoniale ...
June 21, 22: Nation of Bunkers
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 ...
Day 106: Over the Mountains to Albania
Shared Taxi to Sturga, then bus over the mountains to Tirana (via a nice big loop around the country via Durres on the coast) Evening walking round the packed bars and restaurants of ...
un autre qui-pro-quo annonce
bonjour...ceci est vraisemblablement mon dernier envoi a partir de l'albanie... finalement je ne suis pas alle a kruja; ca semblait bien complique et je ne voulais pas reste pris en quelquepart a quelques heures de mon depart... j'ai donc decide d'eviter ...
On the Road to Gjirokaster
With road trips, the destination usually is not as memorable as the drive to get there. From sun-drenched mountains to bunker-covered valleys to hoards of wild turkey herders, this drive was both beautiful and ...
Skanderbeg Square
Tirana is a city of extreme contrasts. A donkey-drawn cart pulls up along side of a top-of-the-line Mercedes. A muslim cleric sings out the morning prayers as a spandex-clad woman enjoys her morning run. A cow looks up from grazing to notice a major ...
Korce, Albania
Walked across the border. Got my camera stolen in my first hour in Albania. Cops helped me track it down again, but had to spend a night in Pogradec. Introduced to American Peace Corp. Intresting, behind the times ...
June 20: In Albania, Muslims eat pork
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); ...