A stretch of coast in southern Albania with turquoise water, white pebble beaches and villages backed by mountains. Ksamil has small islands you can swim or paddle out to. Further north, Dhërmi, Himarë and Jale have beautiful beaches.
The drive over the Llogara Pass from Vlorë gives stunning views. The Blue Eye (Syri i Kaltër), a deep blue spring in the hills inland of Sarandë, is a short detour. Beaches get busy in July and August.
An ancient city inhabited for 2,500 years, by Greeks, Romans, Byzantines and Venetians, set among woods and water on a peninsula near the Greek border.
A UNESCO-listed hill town of grey stone tower houses with slate roofs, built by Ottoman-era merchants, below a huge castle that holds a museum of wea…
The 'town of a thousand windows', with white Ottoman houses stacked up a hillside above the Osum River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A huge Cold War nuclear bunker built for the dictator Enver Hoxha, with 106 rooms on five floors, now a museum of Albania's communist history and art.
A classic one-day hike over the Albanian Alps (the Accursed Mountains), between the remote villages of Valbona and Theth, crossing the Valbona Pass a…
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