Hotel Victoria Tirana

Rr. E Dibres 445 Tirana, Albania

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Amazing Albania

A travel blog entry by gobur12

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... obvious in the towns, large concrete buildings very basic and unattractive .It reminds me of the eastern bloc countries of 30years ago.
The sea side towns are really developing with resorts being built everywhere to cater for the increasing numbers of tourists .
Last night we stayed in Berat, a medieval town. It was beautiful we had a great view from the balcony of our hotel room.We joined the locals and walked along the promenade before ...

Eliza Dushku and the Mayor of Tirana!

A travel blog entry by eastin80

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... about a documentary or something like that. It was hard to understand as it was being translated so I could barely hear what Eliza was saying. I thought it was pretty random that someone from Buffy was on the news in Albania, but didn't give it all that much thought as we trudged outside nursing our hangovers in the 36 degree heat to catch our first Tirana sights.

We got to the first beautiful mosque and took some photos and then ...

ALBANIA-first part

A travel blog entry by vinkor

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... of the center.
After Tirana I took the motorway to DURRES-DURAZZO where I arrived in a couple of hours under a boring rain. Durres was a very import greek and then roman colony but today is the biggest port of the country. There is a roman anphitheater among modern buildings, a venetian tower and some Byzantine walls and particularly interesting is the rich Archeological Museum along the marine street.
There is a second Durres that is the new city ...

In Albania

A travel blog entry by muxlow

... ship yesterday and went for a tour around Athens and headed to Perveza in Northern Greece.

Today we drove into Albania, which is very interesting, the toilets are just a hole in the ground and its still a developing country so its not very nice, but its kinda cool.

Well we have another driving day tomorrow to Croatia, where we will be able to drink the water again hopefully and have regular toilets again.


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Nothing to Balk(an) At!

A travel blog entry by ware_daniel

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... GoogleMaps to see where the Monastery was. Of course, it was off the highway down a small, windy, curvy road. The only thing on the road was a small town that we promptly entered into the GPS Chris had. Upon arriving at said small town (I just call it Smachov even though that's not quite it), we realized that the road came to a startling end unless you happen to be driving a tank or maybe a hummer. We decided to ask for directions. Fortunately for us, ...