At the end of a long, dry summer, presided over by cloudless skies, the rapids of the mighty Vjosa have calmed and quietened. Which suits me just fine, sitting as I am in a kayak navigating the ...

(National Tourism Agency of Albania / Courtesy) As the crow flies — and Google Maps confirmed — the coast was just a matter of miles away. An easy drive and we'd be lolling in the Mediterranean.

that most people would have trouble finding on a map. Located on the Ionian Sea, directly east of Italy and just north of Greece, Albania is a once-lost part of the area known collectively as the ...

“We think that we are complementary in this map of tourism ... Neil Taylor, now a travel guidebook writer, was the man who single-handedly founded tourism from the UK to Albania half a century ...

We drive into the Ceraunian Mountains of Albania on a switchback-happy coastal road, past walls of black pines and by rickety tables laden with local honey and tea. Slopes spilling down to beaches ...

with transfers provided by local travel agencies like Zbulo and Zalaz. To reduce the Peaks of the Balkans to a slightly shorter, seven-day circuit, start in Plav (Montenegro) or Theth (Albania ...