You Need To Know About Traveling To Albania

advantages as it is more peaceful and less crowded place.

Albania is blessed with natural beauty like Lake Komani. Smooth and peaceful boating in clear water is an attraction for tourists. Mount Dajt is a mountain located in central Albania. A great place for adventures like hiking, trekking and climbing. With the height of 1613 m, it is covered with snow in winters. Lake Skadar adds the beauty of Albania. It is also known as Lake Shkodër, named after the city of Shkoder in Albania.

Sarande is the most important municipality as it attracts most of the tourists due to its Pulebardha beach, the best beach of the surrounding areas. Adventurous tourists are keen to visit glacial mountain range Prokletije also known as Albanian Alps. It is considered as one of the wildest mountain range. It is still not discovered completely but is undoubtedly amazingly beautiful. Another great place of sightseeing, swimming and sun bathing is Albanian Riviera. Various hotels and other activities makes this place a fun place to visit.

Berat positioned at the River Osum is a great place to visit for history and culture. It was built as a castle on the hill. A castle named as Kalaja is still located there having many churches and mosques depicting religious and cultural heritage. Berat was once named as “City of Thousands Windows” due to houses having large window frontages.

One of the biggest city of ancient times, Apollon – named after God Apollon, can be found in the middle of Albania. It is of great importance due to impressive ancient ruins, temples, libraries and rotted mansions.

Moscople is still maintaining the old fashioned ways of agriculture attracting tourists from different countries. People visit Moscople for agri-tourism and they are invited to taste the local food made traditionally. Food, hand crafting and agriculture is the specialty of Moscople situated at the southeast Albania.

City of 20km only, Krujë is located in North Central Albania and has a great historical background. It is known for Kruja Castle, an important historical place and has a value of national sanctum. Near to this town other places to visit are Sari Saltiks Tomb and Qafe Shtama, a brilliant national park.

Tirana being the capital and largest city of Albania, is the heart of Albanians. Tirana is rich of places to visit. National History Museum is the largest museum of Albania enriched with archeological treasures of the country. National Art Gallery is holding all the history and culture of Albania portraying it through paintings and is worthy of viewing. One of the oldest building,  Et’hem Bey Mosque, is hard to miss because of its beauty and elegance. Alluring dome is beautifully painted and is worth appreciation.

Albanian cuisine includes touches of Turkish and Italian food. Salads and dairy products are basic part of their food. As the cuisine is mainly Mediterranean, their specialty is sea food. Apart from the local dishes, Albanian fast food is inexpensive and good in quality. Their main meal is lunch including stew, salads and different vegetables.

Take your shoes off, have a vacation in Albania to discover their history and enjoy beautiful weather and natural scenes.

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