Unforgettable vacation in Albania, the city of Durres

06 august 2017 Travel time: with 20 July 2017 on 31 July 2017
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To get to Albania, you need to fly from Kiev (Zhulyany) by charter flight to Tirana at 11-00 (the only airport in Albania so far. Located near Tirana in the village of Rinas). Regular flights do not fly, only charters. Fly 2 hours 10 minutes Arrival at 12-10 local time, time difference 1 hour.

30 minutes drive from Durres airport. There are buses and taxis. Taxi - 20 euros.

Exchange rate of 1 euro - 130 lek or about 4.30 UAH

They lived in Durres at Villa Kulla E Vekut.

They paid 220 euros for 11 nights, the prices there are different. We have cheaper because the first floor. The room has a built-in kitchen and everything you need: refrigerator, TV, air conditioning… Friendly hosts Enver and Amide, very hospitable, but do not understand English, so the laptop prepared in advance translated into Albanian, and communicated or gestures.


I advise you to download a map of Durres and other cities you plan to visit, so much easier, and the navigator on the phone also helps a lot, because asking in vain, they will not understand. In each cafe the portions are huge, we then adapted to order one salad, one another and share, because if everyone has a portion - it is impossible to eat. Bread in the cafe is served for free - huge cakes. By the way, in supermarkets packages of different sizes are also free. And their coffee is very tasty in small cups and a glass of cold water is served to it, it should be drunk.

On this street there are cafe-confectioneries "Pelican", there are the most delicious sweets!

From the station you can take a bus to Tirana for a walk. Buses run to Tirana every 30 minutes, ticket 1 euro (130 lek) (by the way, here is the bus schedule to the airport: Durres-Rinas: 07:00.09:30.11:00.13:00.15:00.16:30. ¦ Rinas-Dur: 15.14 : 00.15:30.17:15.19:00)

In Tirana, be sure to visit the art bunker I and art II - a museum, and once there was a bunker for ministers and a bunker for their head Enver Hoxha, who for 40 years of rule was waiting for a nuclear strike from a country, and promised ordered all residents to build such shelters. They are still scattered all over Albania, they are not removed. The museum traces the entire history of Albania in the 20th century, the entrance is 500 lek.

We also went to see the pyramid - the former mausoleum of Enver Hoxha, who built his daughter, but in the early 90's Hodge was demolished, the mausoleum was removed, now it is empty, but you can look like, look, in Tirana, many parks.

I also advise you to go to the city of Kruja (translated as "spring"). The town of Kruja is located high in the Sark Saltik mountain, the beauty is unusual, there it breathes in a special way, at first my head was dizzy, as only people live there, only 20 thousand inhabitants, 560 m above sea level.


The national hero of Albania, Skanderberg, once lived here, where his castle was destroyed, and there are two stunning museums: the Skanderberg Museum (entrance 200 lek) and the Museum of Ethnography (entrance 300 lek). There are many souvenir shops, you just have to buy them here, everything is Albanian, and in Durres everything is Chinese. Here, buy home brandy "Skanderberg" 3 euros and brandy, all real. Go to any tavern and ask for the dish "Teve-goat" - lamb in yogurt, cooked in the oven (800 lek), very tasty. By the way, if you watch the program "The Eagle and the Tail in Albania", it is also described and shown in detail. How to get to Kruy. From Durres go to the village. Fash-Kruja (from the bus station 200 lek), and in Fash-Kruja you will be immediately transferred to the bus on Kruja (100 lek), you will be on the road for about 1.5 hours, but you will not regret it. We went back through Tirana, so it turned out to be even cheaper.

Albania is not yet a brazen country, such as Turkey or Egypt, not spoiled by tourists, it is much cheaper, and the sea and air are great, many mountains. Durres: a lot of contrasts - a lot of beggars, but many rich, all in Mercedes. For another 30 years, no one had a car, it was banned by their president, Enver Hoxha, and when he was overthrown, everyone rushed to buy a car, and since Hoxha had a Mercedes, they now buy it to show their status. Many beautiful hotels, restaurants, and right next door you can see a lot of garbage, a lot of construction, in 5 years there will be a great resort, while they do not know how to elevate themselves.

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