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Albania to Kosovo - In Detail
September 4, 2015
The timeline to yesterday’s photo-story.
5:10 The alarm goes off. Not feeling fully rested but not totally destroyed either
6:10 A minibus (I’m starting to dread these) picks me and a fellow traveller up at the hostel. For the next fifteen minutes the driver makes his route through the city, picking up two or three more passengers.
The city reminds me of Southeast Asia. It’s the way the buildings look, the small shops, the businesses using half the the sidewalk to display their merchandise or perform their trade.
Shkodër / Skadar to Pristina
September 4, 2015
Left at 6:00, arrived at 19:00 - quite a trip. More details once I have a little more time.
[caption id=“attachment_3379” align=“aligncenter” width=“450”] Early Morning Minibus to Koman[/caption]
[caption id=“attachment_3383” align=“aligncenter” width=“450”] At the Koman “Port”[/caption]
[caption id=“attachment_3380” align=“aligncenter” width=“450”] On the Koman Lake Ferry[/caption]
[caption id=“attachment_3381” align=“aligncenter” width=“450”] Arrival in “NoIdeaWhatItsCalled”[/caption]
[caption id=“attachment_3382” align=“aligncenter” width=“450”] 25 People in a Minibus from Barjam Curri[/caption]
[caption id=“attachment_3386” align=“aligncenter” width=“450”] Pristina Cafe the Morning after[/caption]
Albania
September 2, 2015
Having spent a little more time in Montenegro than initially anticipated, I had to check for alternative ways to get to Thessaloniki (flying out on the 7th). One option would have been a flight from Podgorica but that would have taken 5-6 hours with a stopover in Belgrade. Not too tempting.
In Ulcinj I learned that a lot of people from Kosovo come to the city on vacation and because of that, regular bus connections are available.
Lake Skadar
August 23, 2015
Biggest lake in the Balkans, half an hour from Podgorica and apparently a must-see. How does one get there? “Take the train!” said the hostel staff. I enquired about buses but was told that they’re more expensive and less reliable. Oh well… train it is.
And what a train it was! Clean, modern, could have cruised the rails of Germany. My opinion on train travel in the Balkans got a bit better.
At the lake it was a 10-15 minute walk from the station to the village centre (across the train tracks, through the shrubs and there you are).
The recommendation I got for experiencing the lake was to go kayaking. It’s reasonably cheap with just 3 Euros per hour and I was in need for some exercise.
Twenty minutes of paddling later and I’m still in some form of canal, on my way to the actual lake. It did look beautiful.
Once I had reached the open lake, it was a fair bit to the next landing point. Almost an hour into the journey