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the trip to Tropoja

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One of the most beautiful areas of Albania is Tropoja, in the north-east. However, it was also the wildest area, an area where you want to be with a local.
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the Lake Ohrid area

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The east of Albania offers beautiful, and deep, Lake Ohrid at the Macedonian border, the lovely Lin village and the town of Korca
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Byllis

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The ruins of another Roman town, with the remains of several early churches, could be found high up the hills near the town of Ballshi, along the Vjose River.
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Gjirokaster

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City of a Thousand Steps may well be an understatement for Gjirokaster: in between the Ottoman houses against the slope are many stairs
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Berat

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Not only City of a Thousand Windows, but an almost equal amount of satellite dishes marked the old town of Berat in the 1990s
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the Countryside

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Albania is a small country. It is also sparsely populated, with few urban centres, and most people living in the countryside. And a countryside it was!
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the Corfu excursion

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From the tourist perspective, Curfu was actually an incredible contrast to Albania, so nearby. From Sarande at night, a pretty dark place even without a power cut, one saw the bright lights of Corfu a short distance away. Arriving in Kerkira
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Butrint

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All the way to the south of Albania, near the Greek border, is Butrint, an Illyrian, then Greek and then Roman town with origins in the 7th Century BC. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, is was long on the organisation’s endangered sites list, because in the Albania of the 1990s not much was protected.
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the Albanian Riviera

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Being positioned along the Mediterranean, or more precisely, the Adriatic Sea, Albania has a beautiful coastline, which, however, is far less developed than most other Mediterranean countries.
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Apollonia

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South of the Divjake are the ruins of the Greek and Roman city of Apollonia, or what is left of it in the free-for-all atmosphere of post-communist Albania. Every time we visited the local museum, more of the collection had disappeared and there was less to admire.
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