Oaz Hotel Kavaje

Hallo zusammen,

von B**at ging es wied** zurueck in die Hauptstadt (**neut 45in Wartezeit und etwas ueb** 2h Fahrt, wenigstens sind die Strassen in Albanien recht gut). Hatte dann nur ein paar Stunden Tageslicht, ab** das reicht aus, um Tirana zu sehen.

Das Nationalmuseum ist ganz nett und etwas groes** als das Museum des Kosovo. Die Geschichte Albaniens ho**t mit 1945 auf, man schein noch nicht b**eit zu sein die kommunistische A**a zu bew**ten. Das ...

Hallo zusammen

und Gruesse aus Tirana, Albanien, Land Nummer 124:-) Bin um kurz vor 9 in Tirana eingetroffen, die Strasse im Kosovo war schrecklich, der Grenzuebergang ziemlich merkwuerdig, es gibt zwar Kontrollposten, aber niemand hat die Paesse der Passagiere kontrolliert (weder auf der Kosovo noch auf der Albanischen Seite). Habe bisher nur ...

... il m'a dit que enver avait interdit tout culte et avait ferme tout lieu de culte, mais n'avait jamais detruit ceux-ci... il m'a parle d'une eglise qui se trouve a une douzaine de kilometres d'ici et qui serait la plus vieille de la chretiente car elle aurait ete construite du temps de saint paul... une legende y est rattachee... il voulait m'y amener ce matin, mais je preferais m'en venir vers berat... on s'est quitte tard dans la soiree et il m'a dit etre ...

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 avant et apres les repas, le service au resto est lent, plein d'hommes dans l'espace public et peu de femmes (de pkus en plus de jeunes filles), attitudes machistes, ca fume partout, hommes et ...

... pulled out I was looking out the window telling Tirana I would see it again. Before long we were passing the rubbish filled suburbs of the city that themselves even have a certain charm to them. We were 30Min's of out Tirana when we arrived in Durres, a journey that took over an hour by train. If I was doing the journey again I would still take the train, the experience is too good to miss. Before long I relaxed and must have slept for awhile because I was woken by a guy telling me ...

... wasn't abandoned until the early 20th century, and has a Greek amphitheatre, a baptistry with intact Roman mosaics under the sand (which you can peek at), an acropolis and castle. It is still being excavated (while we were there) and as recently as two years ago they uncovered a life-size Roman marble statue. We wandered around for hours and had ourselves a picnic at the amphitheatre - very civilised.

... until everything's immaculate. Public roads are a different story. Even in Tirana, the capitol of Albania, we had daily blackouts. The electricity cut out at random times, though I was told there is a formal schedule. Just that no one knows when it happens. People are so accustomed to these blackouts that when the stereo system shut off in a restaurant, the employee automatically turned on a battery-operated radio for us. Most of the businesses ...

... up/drop off a passenger or two. On two occasions when the bus stopped, the bus driver and/or his assistant (a young man in his 20s) got in an argument with the furgon/minibus drivers...they were obviously competing for business. At one time, one of the arguments got quite heated where we all thought a fist fight was going to ensue. But alas, it was just a lot of yelling and a little shoving and then our driver got back on the bus ...

... Deni! I will give you a little back ground: - Tirana and Albania have a very underdeveloped tourism industry, but i think that in a few years the country will boom... - It is a very cheap country to do anything: transportation, eating, shopping...money goes far... - Their currency in the lek, but they often take Euro as well... - The capital city itself isn't terribly exciting, but there is a great night life and lot's of shopping ...

... ride. We just looked out for a guy yelling Shkoder. Sort of like organised legal hitching, which you pay for. So it was a fast ride in a small Fiat to Shkoder...also dusty and full of construction so we pooled all of our remaining Albanian Lek in a pile and come up with 1685. The going rate for a taxi ride to Hani Hotit (the border) is 2000 Lek but we begged a few drivers until one agreed to take us. (We weren't going to tell him we had ...