A Crazy Balkan Road Trip I – Albania & Kosovo & Montenegro (2017)
A Crazy Balkan Road Trip I – Albania & Kosovo & Montenegro
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A crazy Balkan road trip I – Albania & Montenegro (2017)
Albania?!? What do you want there? Isn’t there only mafia and terrorists !? And they still have blood revenge, right ?!
– People
The reactions of many friends and colleagues to this year’s travel destination for Chris, Uwe and me looked like this or something similar after we had toured…
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🇦🇱 The Road Trip begins – The fortress of Pelenë
The next day we leave for the airport to pick up our car – not a Mercedes, but a Dacia Stepway.…
🇦🇱 Berat – The city of 1000 windows
From Pelenë (the ë is found in many words here and is sometimes an ö or an a) it turns into a desolate…
🇦🇱 A Day of Surprise – At the Bogovë waterfall
You’re having an Albanian breakfast – they do that for us VIPs – slurping your rice, goulash soup and…
🇦🇱 Refuge from the heat in the incredible Osum Gorge
It’s my birthday and we just took a shower in an ice cold waterfall. We feel highly motivated. We’re…
🇦🇱 Visiting the Albanian family in Gjerbës
Rovena, where are we going today?” – is a question that’s becoming common among us. Often the answer…
🇦🇱 With a terribly Underpowered Car Through The Albanian Mountains
After a princely breakfast, lots of warm hugs and well-intentioned gifts, such as homemade bread and…
🇦🇱 The enchanting Bridges and Gorges of Përmet
Finally we leave the mountains and get onto a real road with real, modern asphalt. It’s like another…
🇦🇱 City of Legends – Picturesque Gjirokastër
It is getting morning in Përmet. I feel rested, but my companions don’t. They have a mighty hangover…
🇦🇱 A spontanous Invitation to an Albanian wedding
We continue strolling through Tepelenë in the sweltering heat, as we hear traditional music. Rovena is…
🇦🇱 In the footsteps of vanished Cultures in Butrint and Antigonea
Between Tepelenëand Gjirokastër we pass a place just off the road where all hell breaks loose. You can…
🇦🇱 The Country of the Bektashi – heights and relief
Wir wollen wieder nach Norden. Ganz nach Norden, was bedeutet, dass wir eine ganze Menge…
🇦🇱 Trouble on the Albanian blue Adriatic
The trip to this village was worth it. It is beautiful on top of a mountain with great views, cooling…
🇦🇱 Searching for Solitude at The Coast of Albania
The hotel that we found in the middle of the night is preparing for a wedding and we have breakfast in…
🇦🇱 Skanderbeg’s mighty Fortress of Kruja
We head north the next day; we men are among ourselves again. Saying goodbye is still difficult and…
🇦🇱 The Crazy Koman Ferry
We fight our way through Albanian traffic again and take the only northbound highway Albania has to…
🇦🇱 The Valbona Fairy Tale Valley
On the way, an oncoming car with headlight flasher stops us. Again a driver draws our attention to our…
🇽🇰 Our Visit to Kosovo that looks like little Germany
As always, our thinking is determined by prejudices. So also about Kosovo. Entry into the country is…
🇲🇪 Montenegro’s Wonderfull Alpine Villages near Lake Plav
After we had officially left Kosovo with a few obstacles, we drive ten kilometers through the most…
🇦🇱 Vermosh takes your breath away
Crossing the border back to Albania is a joke this time. We quickly leave Montenegro at a small log…
🇲🇪 Between the Mediterranean Sea and Skadar Lake
Originally there was the idea to go to the beautiful Bay of Kotor and visit the town of the same name.…
🇦🇱 Shkodra and Albania’s Virtues
In the most beautiful evening light we drive back to Albania. This time, the border is quickly behind…
