Welcome to ALBANIA! | Off-Road Adventure

We're back in Albania! It's been two years since our last visit to this incredible country and we've got plenty of exciting adventures awaiting us here.

00:10 - Leaving Macedonia
02:30 - Arrive in Albania
03:24 - Arrive in Korcë
06:02 - Lake Prespa
10:27 - Off-Roading
11:31 - Arrive in Korcë Day Two

We reluctantly left Macedonia, a country that left a permanent imprint on our lives. A country with beautiful rugged mountains and miles of unspoiled nature. A country with the most hospitable and welcoming people we'd encountered.

However, we were excited too, because Albania had also left these same imprints on our memories from our previous visit there two years ago.

In this episode we cross the border and arrive at a city in the South East of Albania; Korcë. We delve in to local byrek, known to be the best in the country and discover a natural beauty spot on the edges of Lake Prespa. This is not to be missed!

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A little about us...

We’re Lucy and Ben, two photographers from Cornwall, UK who’ve been living and travelling in our self-converted LDV Convoy camper van for the best part of four years. We’ve travelled all across Europe from West to East documenting our encounters with the people we meet as well as our own travels and adventures. We embrace the ethos of slow travel and minimal living, generally spending between 2 and 8 weeks in each country, getting to know each culture, cuisine and people as though we were locals ourselves as well as hiking, wild swimming and camping as we go.

We are currently on our third 7 month long road trip, travelling through the Balkans for the second time beginning in the French Alps and venturing as far East as Turkey, visiting 13 countries in between.

Our plan was simple: visit every country in Europe in our rusty tin can of a van. So far we’ve made it to 28 countries, travelling as far West as Portugal and as far East as Ukraine, having all sorts of crazy adventures in between.

Our main motivation for our travels is to capture photos and create documentary projects, so our van is primarily a vessel for our photography. We tend to focus on topics such as nomadism, traditional ways of life, the effects of recent political events and the difficulties of living in remote rural areas as well as documenting our own adventures and lifestyle on our various social channels.

We’ve had so many memorable experiences on our travels, and our photo documentary projects have given us an intimate insight into the lives of many different people and brought us together as friends.

We've visited the folk living in one of the most remote corners of Europe in the Albanian Alps, experienced the culture and traditions of the horsemen in the Hortóbagy National Park, and experienced life with Roma gypsies in their village in Romania, and there's still so much more to explore...

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