Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelHotel Mangalemi Berat
Albanian Transport
An entry probably mostly of interest to people actually wanting to get around Albania:
We ventured from Gjirokaster to Berat today, a trip of about 4 hours by bus. It was a surprisingly pleasant journey.
I was a bit wary of the logistics of getting around Albania, with its slow roads and network of cheap buses and minivans. 'Cheap …
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 the place based on casual observation:
Millinea ago, around 400 BC, people …
Out & About the Ruins, The Bunkers & The Turkeys
Out and About the ruins and bunkers
Day 3 Thursday Dec 29, 2012
Today we are moving to a new hotel tonight but we are starting to Durres which is a port city very close to Tirana. Many people in Tirana have summer homes down here or weekend homes. We saw that there was a train that goes between Durres and Tirana but our guide …
Berat
Die Fahrt auf den Dajt-Berg lassen wir aus und wir fahren lieber gleich weiter - mit dem Ziel Berat, eine der must-see Sehenswürdigkeiten. Es wird spannend - wie kommt man in Albanien wirklich weiter? Es sind 140 km und unsere Schätzungen schwanken zwischen 2h und 5h. Es geht die ersten 100 km fast durchgehend auf Autobahn dahin und damit recht …
The Town of A Thousand Windows
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 wonderful B&B, complete with affable host, beautiful terrace, and traditionally decorated …


