Day Four: Albania (Gjirokastra – Permet – Korcha – Voskopoja) Early next morning, I was raring to finally climb to Gjirokastra’s famed hilltop castle – one of the largest on the Balkans, but as it did not open until 10…
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Day Three: Albania (Vlora – Butrint – Gjirokastra) After an early-morning start (forget about sleeping-in, this was a research trip, not a vacation), we headed south along the Vlora Bay (the largest in the country). With the Karaburun Peninsula looming…
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Day Two: Albania (Elbasan – Shelcan – Berat – Apollonia – Vlora) Early next morning after breakfast (which I have to say was quite unimpressive and this proved to be rather the norm at many of the hotels in Albania), we transferred…
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Day One: Albania (Tirana & Elbasan) I was so happy to be flying from Tampa to Tirana with only one connection (in Frankfurt) on one of the recently inaugurated Lufthansa flights but, as luck would have it, got delayed arriving…
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For many, the name of Khiva – one of the most historic cities in Uzbekistan, evokes images of exhausting caravan journeys across the desert and exotic markets where merchants from faraway places once congregated to sell their wares – from…
