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[email protected]We are a group of nature enthusiasts, who love to visit natural beauties of their country and archeological places.
Albania has many known and unknown attractions. We thought would be a good thing to visit all of them, but that did not happen, because there are so many. So the best we thought is to open this site in order to get to know Albania better and why not get other people to know it with us and of course get to know other people with different cultural backgrounds.
It is said that visiting different places gives you a better perspective of live. We try to embrace this by seeing this as a form of living. Our focus is to bring as many people to travel and enjoy as much as we did the places we visited, so this way we spread our happiness to others and they can spread their happiness to their family and friends.
With a surface of 28.748 square kilometres (11.100 sq mi), Albania is placed along the eastern part of the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea inside the Mediterranean Sea. It has a length of borders about 1,094 kilometres (680 mi), 657 kilometres (408 mi) of which are terrestrial, 316 kilometres (196 mi) of shore border, 48 kilometres (30 mi) river borders and 73 kilometres (45 mi) of lake borders.[22]
Inland water surface is 1,350 square kilometres (520 sq mi), composed by natural lakes 325 square kilometres (125 sq mi), coastal lagoons 130 square kilometres (50 sq mi), artificial lakes 174 square kilometres (67 sq mi) and rivers 721 kilometres (448 mi).[23] Except the coastline, all Albanian borders are artificial. They were established at the 1912-1913 Conference London.
The country was occupied by several forces during first World War, but the 1913 boundaries were essentially reaffirmed by the victorious states in 1921. Division of the lake district among three states required that each of them have a share of the lowlands in the vicinity. Such an artificial distribution, once made, necessarily affected the borderlines to the north and south.
The population of Albania is 2.8 million but because it is hard to find work, there are more Albanians living outside of Albania. After the fall of communism and the collapse of the economy, it was the largest emigration movement in Europe since World War 2. Many Albanians settled in Greece, Italy along with Switzerland, Germany and Turkey.
During the communist era (1941 to 1992) religion was outright banned making Albania the first atheist country in the world. Many mosques and churches were burned down during the Enver Hoxha ruling. Nowadays Albania is predominately of Islam religion, but you will find people eating pork, drinking alcohol and not wearing headscarves.
Just about everyone here drives a Mercedes. The reason? After the mass emigration of Albanians leaving everyone started bringing back Mercedes Benz. They are reliable cars and perfect for the roads that are here. Now having a Mercedes is a must-have for many. Most of them come from Germany and are perfectly legal. The Albanians have a sort of entrepreneurial sense as every time they would go back home to Albania after working in another country, they would bring a Mercedes to sell. This is how the whole country is now full of old Mercedes Benz!
One of Albania’s tradition is called Xhiro. Early in the evening Albanians will leave their homes and go for a walk down the main road of wherever they live. This is a good chance to catch up with everyone. Sometimes the farmers will come and sell their produce or people will start little BBQs on the side of the street.
Safety in Albania ? -There is nothing to worry about here. In fact, in Albania, there is something called a code of Besa, which roughly translates to ‘to keep the promise’. Albanians have a code of honor to look after those who need help.
Albanian or ‘shqip’ has no close languages at all. If you look at the science behind the language it is an Indo-European language. There are two dialects, one being Tosk (the southern dialect) and the other Geg (the northern dialect). It’s a hard language to learn, the words are long and the sounds are difficult for most.
Albania boasts more than 3,250 species of plants, which accounts for 30 per cent of all flora in Europe
