{"id":2544,"date":"2015-11-01T17:09:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T16:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2015-11-01T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T16:38:43","slug":"10-days-in-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/2015\/11\/10-days-in-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"10 days in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"

i’ve spent nearly two weeks traveling around Albania. i’ve started and ended the journey on a Greek island – Corfu [ i could not find any reasonably-priced flight from Berlin to Tirana ] and from there travelled with a ferry to Sarand\u00eb.
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\nthere are few ferry connections between the Corfu Port<\/a> and Sarande pier<\/a> run by ionian-cruises.com<\/a> and finikas-lines.com<\/a> [ note that the tickets have to be bought ~1km away from the ferry terminal in Corfu – near this place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

the ferry ride was smooth and fast – nearly 50km\/h. 30 min after the departure we’ve been already walking towards the Albanian border control. first impression of Albania: Sarand\u00eb looked pretty well, better than i expected: plenty of new buildings, quite touristy, full of visitors.<\/p>\n

from Sarand\u00eb we’ve taken a mini-bus [ called by soe a furgon ] from city’s main bus stop<\/a> towards Vlore and took a ride to our next stop – Orikum. the road was full of sharp turns and climbing up to 1km above the sea level. views – stunning and scary at the same time. <\/p>\n

Orikum turned out to be a smallish town with bunch of recently finished flat blocks ~800m away from pretty nice beaches. there was also a naval base that – sadly – limited options of taking a longer walk along the seashore, but we’ve found something interesting [ruins of an ancient Marmiroi church<\/a> ] anyway:<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t

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