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It’s our last site in Albania 🇦🇱. Impressive castle 🏰 in Rozafa. Tomorrow we are going to Montenegro 🇲🇪 yay!!! . . . #rozafa #rozafacastle #shkodra #shkoder #shkoderalbania #exploringalbania
Kruja in Albania is a charming medieval village. It is small enough to get around on foot very easily. Beside castle and one street bazaar - kept in the old Ottoman style with beautiful architecture. It has ruin of the old castle and great ethnographic museum, which we all loved. It was a first time when we learn about history of Albania. definitely must see if you around. . . #kruje #krujë #krujealbania #albanianhistory #worldschooling #worldschoolingfamily
Durrës is not only the place with cool murals 😉 but it has a great amphitheater from 2nd century BC which was only discovered in 1966. What is even more exciting is fact that half of it is still underground and waiting to be discovered. For our girls the most exciting part was the stray dog 🐕... so much for worldschooling lesson this time 😂 . . . #durres #durresalbania #durresamphitheatre #exploringalbania
We moved more inland (and it’s a bit colder). We are exploring town of Berat, which is one of four UNESCO sites in Albania 🇦🇱 and its known as “town of thousand windows” - girls tried to count the windows but got bored after 357 - 😂 . . #exploringalbania #berat #beratalbania #unescosite #exploringeurope #camperlife
I didn’t really wanted to visit Tirana but as we were 30 minutes away we decided to check it out... and ... you can give it a miss, though people are friendly and food is yummy 😋 and we had a good time . . . #tiranaalbania #thetravellingtwins #exploringalbania
PLEASE READ ... Bunkart 2 is a museum showing the cruelty of of the Albanian police state from 1945 to 1991. The museum is located in a nuclear bunker in the centre of Albania’s capital, Tirana. The 1,000 sq metre Bunker, with walls 2.4 m thick, was built between 1981-86 as a hideout for elite police and the Albanian Ministry of the Interior. From 1967 until his death in 1985, paranoid dictator Enver Hoxha ordered the construction of something between 178,000 and almost 700 000 bunkers for fear of attacks from the United States or/and the Soviet Union. It was Enver Hoxha who isolated Albania from the rest of the world. The Museum of 24 rooms describes the history of Albania's secret police from 1912 to 1991. The first four rooms lead up to the Second World War, and the remainder show the career of the state security Police Sigurimi from 1945-1991 and their ways of control and power in line with the expectation of the dictator. In these rooms, we learnt the sad story of the 989 killed trying to leave Albania, the 6,027 executed with or without process as enemies of the state, and the 34,000 imprisoned or sent to camps. All this because of the paranoia of one man. All documented and illustrated. It was an uncomfortable time we spent in the museum, reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984. As we walked the underground corridors we saw photos, and movies and read the stories of people maimed and tortured by their own "brothers" or killed on the border by trained dogs. At times I hurried the girls through some of the rooms, not wanting them to learn too much. After reading about the tortures, I was physically sick. The kids did enjoy reading and learning about spying equipment, though it took some explaining why a neighbour would spy on a neighbour I was very upset by this museum, but I'm glad we visited it, as I think it helped me understand Albania and the Albanians, who are the most friendly and helpful people. The strange thing for me was that it was the most expensive museum we visited in Albania and the only one that charges an entry fee for children. This museum should be free to teach history, so it will never repeat.
Here we are exploring Berat Castle, which is the first really picturesque place we have found in Albania 🇦🇱 other than its beautiful beaches. I don’t want to be negative but it’s very hard to find interesting sites in Albania 🇦🇱 . . . #exploringalbania #albania🇦🇱 #beratcastle #worldschooling #balkans
Albania doesn’t have as many interesting sites compared with Greece. So any time we see some castle ruins on the horizon we are up for exploring. Another strange thing is that lots of people in Albania 🇦🇱 still make their homes in old castles and ruins . . #exploringalbania #albania🇦🇱 #castlealbania #albaniancastles #exploringeurope #balkans
We spent three days on the Albanian riviera - getting over our colds - now we are almost good. What surprised us in this beautiful location was the bunkers we found almost everywhere - including on the beaches (last photo). They are the legacy of the old regime. ... an average of 5.7 bunkers for every square kilometre. These bunkers were built during the communist government of Enver Hoxha from the 1960s to the 1980s; by 1983 a total of 173,371 concrete bunkers had been constructed around the country - from Wikipedia When I talked to locals they were surprised that in Poland even though it was a communist country we didn’t have bunkers everywhere... . . . #albania🇦🇱 #albanianriviera #bunkers #albanianbunkers #exploringalbania