Albania Transportation

One of the easiest ways for...

by nmercury64

One of the easiest ways for tourists to enter Albania is by ferry from Corfu Town, Greece to Sarande: There are two types of ferry service available. 1) The first one is the Flying Dolphin, which takes about 25 minutes, and operates during the regular tourist season a few days a week ferrying mostly tourists on day package tours to Butrint, Albania. Tickets for this can be bought on Corfu at Petrakis, across the street from the main port.2) In addition, two Albanian companies provide daily ferry service from Corfu to Sarande (and back) taking about 1.5 hours and ferry mostly Albanian workers. Not recommended for those who get seasick easily... the boats are old and rock a great deal. The tickets issued by these two companies are NOT interchangeable, so if you buy a ticket with one service you cannot use it for the return portion on the other service so ensure that you have the correct...

TRANSPORTATIONRailways:...

by Angjel

TRANSPORTATIONRailways: total:447 km (none electrified)standard gauge:447 km 1.435-m gauge (1995) Highways: total:18,000 kmpaved:5,400 kmunpaved:12,600 km (1996 est.) Waterways: 43 km plus Albanian sections of Lake Scutari, Lake Ohrid, and Lake Prespa (1990) Pipelines: crude oil 145 km; petroleum products 55 km; natural gas 64 km (1991) Ports and harbors: Durres, Sarande, Shengjin, Vlore Merchant marine: total:8 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 28,394 GRT/41,429 DWT (1998 est.) Airports: 9 (1998 est.) Airports: with paved runways: total:32,438 to 3,047 m:3 (1998 est.) Airports: with unpaved runways: total:6over 3,047 m:11,524 to 2,437 m:1914 to 1,523 m:2under 914 m:2 (1998 est.) Heliports: 1 (1998 est.)

Italy is not a good flight...

by vicky_cannae

Italy is not a good flight gateway as Alitalia charges business class fares for one-way tickets. Malév Hungarian Airlines offers a cheap service from Budapest to Tirana. You can fly from many European capitals, and Athens is among those offering the best value. The simplest bus route is from Ioannina, Greece to Kakavija on the Albanian border, and there are regular services between Tirana and Sofia in Bulgaria. Land crossings were possible from Yugoslavia before the current round of hostilities in Kosovo, but you can still cross by land from Macedonia. The ferry takes from nine to 25 hours, depending on where you leave from Italy, and there is another ferry between Koper, Slovenia and Durës. Departure tax from Albania is US$10.Most Albanians travel the country in private minibuses or state-owned buses, and they are frequent, cheap and comfortable. The roads are generally poor and badly...

Fly if you can afford it, the...

by robogin

Fly if you can afford it, the bus from Athens can take up to 20 hours, I think the best is to take the ferry from Corfu.Buses takes you almost everywhere, if you are in a group renting a car with a driver is a good choice

Ferry

by alectrevor

I went on a day trip from Corfu Greece by ferry, but now you enter Albania by bus from neighbouring countries. There is a ferry from Italy.

Border Crossing from Kosova

by budapest8

HERE ARE THE 2 INTERNATIONAL ROAD BORDER CROSSONGSSEE THE PICTURE

Bus Tirana to Thessaloniki

by lotharscheer

From Tirana (Rruga Kavajes, near Skenderbeg Square) overnight buses to Thessaloniki busterminal.

more pics

by rogert1978

Ferry to Italy

by Tobias_Plieninger

There is a ferry service between Durres and Bari in Italy.You can also take your car with on this ferry.The cruise will take 8 hours.

WWII (or was it I?) trucks

by SirRichard

You can still find in the streets and roads old trucks like this running. If I ever do hitchhiking in Albania, I'd love to be picked up by one of these trucks :-)))