Albania

After sneaking into Greece without a passport stamp earns her deportation, a young backpacker’s desperate drive across the Balkans leads to a broken-down car and a terrifying ordeal, where she …

As Albania’s capital gains wealth and confidence unthinkable a generation ago, a traveler is shown the way to stories hidden below its newly glistening facade. “But you know, he wasn’t …

As part of our ‘Travel Writers Test AI Travel Advice Series,’ we tested ChatGPT’s ability to plan a night out in Albania’s edgy yet exciting capital city. What could possibly …

In the latest entry of the On the Edges of Europe column, travel journalist Thom Brown and his travel companions take a wrong turn on a mountain in Albania and must rely on …

A native of Albania travels back to her home country and must choose which language to use, discovering that both English and Albanian will produce very different results. Whenever I’m …

In the streets of Albania, a traveler finds evidence of a country trying to distance itself from its political past. Editor’s note: This article was written before the world’s deadliest …