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Hotel Bel Conti Durres

Shkambi Kavajes Durres, V0N 1T0, Albania

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Albania is an odd place

A travel blog entry by teamjames

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Our tour guide prepared us well for albania, letting us know about the corruption, poor transport systems, strange customs and suspect environmental activities. It was all pretty much as he said. Our bus was shaken down for some bribes at the border, many or the roads were unsealed, they have this weird custom of hanging soft toys out of windows execution style to ward of spirits, and we ...

Episode 22

A travel blog entry by overlandlyn2010

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... are just so incredibly pretty. We went back to the top end of Lake Skadar and saw the small old bridge. Well, compared to other things it’s not really that old, only 19th century. A stream comes out of a cave and flows into the lake a few k’s further down.

We set off to walk to the cave believing; from a sign we saw that it was 1.8k’s. After walking a bit further than that we then saw another sign saying it was a further ...

All work and no play

A travel blog entry by foodnut

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... of Lekė Dukagjini.

Women were absolutely forbidden from obtaining a divorce, and the wife's parents were obliged to return a runaway daughter to the husband or else suffer shame which could even result in a generations-long blood feud. During World War II, the Albanian Communists encouraged women to join the partisans and following the war, women were encouraged to take ...

The bumpiest ride EVER!

A travel blog entry by molz123

... we couldnt even tell if we were still on a road or not - it was amazing - they are slowly doing them now but its no small undertaking - the trainers said every time they go back it gets better.

We also drove through Durres on the way to Tirana and its bizarre - they have built up this city to be like a resort but didnt think it through in terms of infrastructure so these buildings are just shells with no ...

The hunt for Albanian lager

A travel blog entry by englishanddrunk

... I thanked him for his advise and got back on the bus. I promptly spent the best part of half an hour gazing out of the window in horror. The roads were little more than dirt tracks, with no markings or lighting, each corner was a ninty degree swerve inches away from a cliff edge- on more than one occasion I genuinely thought we were going over the edge. The RAC wouldn't approve of this. I drifted off to sleep for a few ...

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