A classic one-day hike over the Albanian Alps (the Accursed Mountains), between the remote villages of Valbona and Theth, crossing the Valbona Pass at 1,800 m. It's about 17 km and 6 to 8 hours. Stay in family guesthouses in both villages.
In Theth, see the lock-in tower, where men took refuge from blood feuds, and the Blue Eye of Theth pool. The season is June to September. Reach Valbona by the scenic ferry across Lake Komani.
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.
The 'town of a thousand windows', with white Ottoman houses stacked up a hillside above the Osum River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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…
A stretch of coast in southern Albania with turquoise water, white pebble beaches and villages backed by mountains.
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.
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