Gjirokaster

About the stingy family’s traditional house

We arrived at Gjirokaster, our destination for the day on our Albania tour. Gjirokaster is a World Heritage Site and is known as the “Stone Town.” That is because its rows of traditional…

Byllis

Pleasant ruins

I continue talking about the Italian tour in Albania. The next day we left Berat and headed for Gjirokaster. Our first destination was the ruins of Byllis. My husband and I are not…

Berat

Thinking about species preservation at the mosque

Berat, Albania, which is included in the World Heritage Site, is divided into two levels, and the famous “1000 Windows” can be seen in Mangalem on the lower level. After dropping off our…

Berat

The strain of a sudden rise in popularity

We stayed at the Grand White City Hotel in Berat, Albania. The name Berat apparently comes from the word meaning “white town”. I’m sure it was the same in Belgrade, Serbia, too. The…

Berat

Albanian food and the view

On this day, I ate Albanian food for the first time. We had lunch after visiting churches in Berat, a town that is a World Heritage Site. Since almost all of meals are…

Berat

The secret vermilion colour that never fades

We arrived at Berat, our destination for the day on the Albania tour. The town is a World Heritage Site because it retains the streetscape from the Ottoman Turkish era. There is a…

Belsh

While listening to history of the country

On our second day in Albania, we left Tirana for Berat in the south. Before that, we didn’t have any Albanian money, leks, so we asked where the money exchange was and went…