Albania will BLOW YOUR MIND! | Saranda 🇦🇱
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
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In this video I show you what to do in Sarandë, a beach town in souther Albania, called unofficial capital of Albania Riviera. I share my experience traveling across Albania as a solo female traveller (both the good and the bad). I talk about Albanian food, people, safety in Albania (is it safe to travel Albania alone?) and show you what a vacation by the beach in Albani is like!
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0:00 Is Albania a good place to go on holiday?
1:03 Sarandë (Saranda) capital of Albania Riviera
2:40 What is Sarande known for? What to do in Sarande
3:50 Who should travel to Sarande?
6:35 Food in Sarande
7:50 Beach in Sarande
8:50 My bad experience with a hotel in Albania
13:34 Why I think that EVERYBODY should travel to Albania!
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Where are you from ?
I have Albanian friends they are the kindest people! I love them!
Oh gosh, I love the view in Saranda, Albania already, and would love to visit there in the future.
It is just like a paradise.😍
it really is!
Miss Kaja,big thanks for your video, i love Albania too,i been there and is a special country, people are friendly, food is tasty, nature is beautiful, Albania is rich in history, if you visit in different seasons you see different nice things. I wish you all the best.thanks...
This place has it all. Great affordable prices , food, coastal views . I Put it on my bucket list. Thanks. 🌞
Bucket list? Sorry to hear that and hope you get better soon
@@kippsguitar6539 just a list the things I want to do. Big list..
im albanian and himara/qeparo is so much better. Even though to americans/other countries saranda might look cheap its overpriced and overpopulation also its very far away and totaly not worth it
I have an advice for all people,if you want to be respected then you respect also and be genuine and honest,then your life will be great,all the best and love to Albanian people.👍♥️
Thank you for supporting our country!(I am from Albania). I love living in Albania and you will love the animals here. The villages are so beautiful and I live in Tirana (the capital city of Albania).
The word is 'picturesque' 🙂 Great vlogs, you made me want to go to Albania!
haha thank you! ;D
You can do something if you want, tell us the name of the hotel where they are not well behaved because we as Albanian people respect the visitor, which in many European countries is missing I have seen, thank you for coming to Albania and reality as Albania is not as they describe it. Thank you and you are welcome whenever you want in Albania 🇦🇱
What a sweet comment! I will be in your beautiful country in September and can’t wait to visit it. 🥰
@@pennyh2993 Would you mind sharing your experiences, your highlights, your lowlights and what you would recommend or do differently the next time? We're planning on visiting. Thank you
Byłam w Czarnogórze w tym roku na wakacjach i zakochałam się w tym przepięknym państwie💓🇲🇪 Plaże, krystalicznie czysta woda, a dookoła góry i urocze miasteczka 💛 Jako, że Albania jest sąsiadem Montenegro to coraz częściej myślę o tej destynacji 🌼 Naoglądałam się vlogów z Ksamila i Sarandy and i'm obsessed😂 Też myślę że Albania i Czarnogóra jako kierunki stają się coraz bardziej popularne, bo są warte uwagi, a nadal pozostają w cieniu Chorwacji i Grecji.
Pozdrowienia, Kaja💛
taak ja zdecydowanie Albanie polecam! :) dzięki!
Albania a is so not underrated its the best place i actually live in Albanian its the best hope you visit and like it❤😊
Many more tourists 6,7 times are visiting Albania recently and i am happy you enjoy , always welcomed
Heading to Albania in a few days. I’ll be spending a some time in Saranda
You gonna love Corfu
Take a look at La Grotta lounge and Pub, Porto Timoni beach and 7th heaven cafe. What a green and beautiful island. You can also rent a small boat :)
this august saranda had a lot of tourists it was a lot of chaos .I am Albanian myself but I want to say that September is the best time to go to saranda.
It depends in wich time of the year you has been there , im from saranda and last year 2021 we had many tourists from spain french ukraine poland sweden norway etc june july and august are very popular !
Nice video welcome to Shqipëria🇦🇱❤️
Thanks a lot. Veryyyyyy useful. Have fun.
In off season the prices are far less. So 9 months of the year, while it is not all open, it's even a better value.
Love you content 💙💙
thank you!
Hey travel philosopher Kaja. I hope the Albanian tourism board will acknowledge your work in promoting tourism in their country. I am sure that there will be many tourists coming soon to explore this beautiful country and I hope to be among them. Cheers 🥂☺️
Albania have so many tourist all the seson. Its been 5 years now that tourists visits us. Its becouse the price, the food and god people.
@@tonielezi8458 great. Thank you for the information
Mediterranean, I'm glad you overcome that incident
Which neighborhood would you recommend to live/book a hotel??!?
Albania is beautiful
You should have visited butrinti,blue eye and lekursi castle too
Beautiful beach 😊👍
I know right!
How cold is the water?? I'm in pirovac croatia right now, planning to leave beginning of March, looking at here.
This is so nice to watch, but to go in Corfu it took only half an hour. Sometimes 1 hours an a half, it depends what boat are you taking.
Albania is underrated
Not Anymore! National Geographic just rated it #1 destination for 2024.
@@JayandSarah i am so happy they are finally getting their recognition!! Albanians are also great people and hard worker’s mashallah
How is it underrated it toom me 2 hours to drive from dhermi to saranda and at dhermi a 10 inch pizza with very little cheese cost me 10 euro in USA I can get ! 12 inch for $6.99 and overall food is very bad and overpriced and most beaches were private so it costs at least 10 euro to 50 euro for 1 umbrella and 2 seats and the water was very good but there there were so many rocks on the beach no sand at all next to our place there was a roveene that brings the trash down to the beach even known there was a government vacation mansion close by and there's no parking so yes it's a beautiful place but the infrastructure is awful and food is also awful and overpriced you're charging italy or Greece proces for garbage that's not worth even 30% so go fix that before you expect international tourists to come
That's your personal experience and opinion. However, many people have had wonderful experiences there. My friend recently visited and loved the food, the sea, and the hotel. Everything was modern, clean, and the customer service was friendly.
It's important to understand that Albania is a developing country. They are beginning to improve, so it's unrealistic to expect them to be on the same level as Greece or Italy, which have years of experience in tourism. It will take time, but I'm optimistic because Albanians are hard workers.
Regarding prices, have you been to Italy recently? A deck chair by the beach can cost at least €45 per day. Add overpriced food and drinks, and you can easily spend €100 just to go swimming. Despite European laws stating that the sea is public property, Italy has privatized most of its beaches.
I live in Switzerland, which has a large Albanian and Kosovo community. Many Kosovars immigrated here after the war in the 90s, and I grew up with many Albanians. Even as refugees, they were always generous, inviting us over and sharing food with smiles and positive attitudes.
I wish their country the best in its journey to prosperity because the people are strong and resilient and they really deserve it, even if their government is corrupt.
@HAIRHOLIC_1 it's the fact I just left and I was at several cities beaches are mostly private owned so ypu pay from 10 to 50 euro for a umbrella and 2 seats otherwise you can't go to 90% of the beaches food is awful and it took 2 hours to go 70 km from dhermi to saranda I thought saranda was way better and cleaner but dhermi was 100% trash would never go there again
Love this type of content. How long have you been making videos for???
thank you! looong time, probably about 5 years :)
What was the sea food pasta restaurant please 🙏 looks amazing I’m going for the first time soon I’m so excited 😆
love albania wounderful video
Nice!!
Its nice for foreigners who want to vacation, but us who have to live with the local animals, it is not so nice.
Thank you for all these beautiful vlogs through Albania and I want to mention something about the thing with the "hotel", places like that are always a problem, not only in Albania and I understand that you just wanted to spend less for the stay but with the prices comes the level of service right?
And as you mentioned it was a family business, it's their only way of living and people get upset when "you take their incomes" (this is how they see it)
Next time do some more researching about the hotels because it's really important, especially in countries like Albania. Thank you again and keep up the great work!
Glad you to hear you enjoyed Albania overall. I’m very sorry to hear about that weird experience with that hotel. Indeed that sounds very weird for Albania since most people are very friendly. It must have been just them. If any Airbnb is being weird that should be a red flags because it’s not normal behaviour for Albania so it means it must be that individual owner. So leave that place immediately. The normal behaviour in Albania is that you should go an extra mile to satisfy your guest and this is the norm. So if someone in Albania is not going an extra mile to satisfy you as a guest then that should raise red flags that the person/ hotel etc is not acting normal for Albania
I had great experience in Albania! and yes I do agree, everyone was super nice and friendly, that hotel was the only bad experience I had :)
@Ian S Maybe it's you ,have you thought about that?!
@Ian S Ok,I am going to ask every,Italian,Serb,Croat about it ,I will tell you the results after I finish to ask millions of them,now calm down 😃
Sad that it's the last of Albania. Am waiting to see the update of entering Greece because I want to go over there later too, to Athens riviera area. I heard in another year Greece changes some visa regulations. I guess it's sad no more Albania but if it's Corfu then we viewers can probably still see you going in water 🤣
Can you tell as what hotel is that so we dont go there
Hi. Is it possible to het from Tirana to this beach. We will need to rely on the buses . Are rhey reliable. And frequent.
YEs you can get there, they run daily a few times a day from the bus station. It is about 5 hours, is affordable. It is not like a modern country, you will need to be patient and accept stuff is not the same.
Wonderful videos! I will be in Saranda in September may I please ask you to share the name of the hotel (the second one 😂) that stayed at please. Thank you so much in advance
glad to hear! and have fun!
I live in Saranda and I would say that Saranda has very beautifull beaches just a few cilometers away from the city and very interesting history too
It blow my mind
Now it's more expensive than Croatia
fuel 2.18 euro liter
pizza 10 euro
coffee 2.5-3 euro
olive oil 7.5 euro liter
Coca Cola 1.5 liter 1.18 euro
Fish at restaurant 10 euro minimum
beer 3 euro
drink 6 euro
Thanks for beeing with us with love from prishtina
Yep, Berat is "Osum", LOL - that's the river that passes through the city of Berat. I know you meant "awsome".
Is there a chance to enjoy the beach and the coast in April?
We hope so! We are going to live there for 3 months starting soon!
Come egypt you will really enjoy best experience
I live in Sarande. I never leave.
hello, which hotel do you recommend staying in saranda? :)
None. There are tons of private air bnb type rentals in the city, far more than there are any hotels. Most of the buildings are half empty in the off season, so travel then. It is good value. We are going in a couple weeks for 3 months. The price is so reasonable. $350 euro a month all included. (Utilities, wifi etc),right on the ocean.
It’s about 1/2 hour by ferry to Corfu, not 2 1/2 hours.
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What hotel is this one it looks so pretty i wanna go there
Hello.. what name of hotel
I've heard that Vlora has a better beach.
Hey how are you? im in Tirana now, its great, but this is even better, where are you now? nice to meet you.
Good video!
Would you live in Albania?
May I know how far from Poland to Albania? From India.
is around 3 to 4 hours flight
approximately 2 hours
Sawaddee krab🙏
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Albania blew
Saranda has 50,000 Population
I was thinking on going next summer vacation to Albania but I’ve been watching some videos and even though it looks beautiful I don’t like the fact that I have to pay with cash all the time. It inconvenient for tourists since we have to pay to the bank for withdrawals and then we don’t get points for using our credit cards, so I feel I’m making them a favor and hurting my pocket in the process and why would I do that, maybe that’s one of the reasons people just don’t go, they are not prepared for international tourists. Meanwhile I’ll keep going to Greece or Italy where I can pay with my credit card no problem at all.
That's too bad you would avoid a country for that reason. If you are going to Italy or Greece, you may be getting "points" and saving on some bank fees, but you are paying more in total for your stuff. It's a very shortsighted way of looking at the situation.
how hard is it to reach from tirana.
not hard but takes a while, about 5-6h of drive :)
Which hotel were y in the video?😍
I mean the other hotel not the one u had a bad experience with
Hotel Butrinti :)
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Hello
Corfu is only 30 minutes from saranda not two and an half hours!
yes I was wrong! the ferry I ended up taking was 1,5h tho
20 min ferry is the speed boat one. It's really expensive to take the 30 mins one
@@sm3675 ah ok I got you.
Well have a great time in Corfu
I just swim to Corfu, I’ll just go mor south.
Take me there
take me back! :p
It's a beautiful place however the infrastructure is not good and they're all out ripoff somehow beaches are mostly owned by private sector so they charge 10 to 50 euro for a umbrella and 2 seats or you can't go there and food is awful and expensive so I definitely won't be back
"picturesque"
Unpolite? Picturistic? She said the people there don't speak Spanish well!
well mistakes happen :)
Please show more of the locations you are at and talking about and less you talking into the camera. It feels like we're watching a personal diary of yours as opposed to a touristic one. Thanks
it is a personal diary of mine ;)
It's called a vlog.
@@JayandSarah Yes, not a video showing people about Albania so that they can make informed choices.
Albania is just waiting on European Union membership and then you know the tourists will flock to Albania's beaches.
It's already jammed with European tourists. It doesn't need the EU for that.
I can tell you had a intense confrontation with hotel owner. Albania is probably not so popular because a lot off childrens families hesitate going there, maybe because not in EU, insurance problems with illness, to little marketing of the country, crime?, language barriers, ect...
Screw the EU,.
There is less crime than in the big EU cities
Most yung people in Albania speak English, Italian and other language. Your description doesn't match! You've been a little bit dramatic 🙄
Next journey call me we go together
This will be my next destination after North Macedonia. Please please stop saying the word "Fricking" so annoying my dear. Thanks for good video !
You pay 7 euro for pasta, for me who have lived there its insane. You are being robbed. Living there i never paid more than 2 euro for lunch
Unfortunately you have so oversold Saranda that you have little credibility now. Apart from the sea promenade and some private hotel beaches, the place is more like a third world country and the myriad of half finished now abandoned building makes it more like a war zone. The restaurants mainly serve spaghetti and pizza and the supermarkets range is very limited. After two weeks here the thing we are looking forward to most is the ferry out of here!
Would you mind sharing your experiences, your highlights, your lowlights and what you would recommend or do differently the next time? We're planning on visiting. Thank you
If all you found was spaghetti and pizza, you didn't look very far.
You really dont nothing about Saranda sorry.
what the fuck ur cying?:D