Riding motorbike in ALBANIA alone! Solo Motorbike Road Trip 🇦🇱 [Ep. 6]
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In 2013, I started my solo travel journey, leaving Indonesia in 2016 to become a full-time traveler and TH-cam creator. My background in International Relations has fueled a profound interest in exploring different countries. My content focuses on exploring different cultures through the lens of a solo female traveler, aiming to capture real-life interactions and experiences.
My travels kicked off with a five-month trip across Asia, after which I moved to China in January 2017 to work as an English teacher-my first time living abroad. I left China in 2018 to fully commit to creating videos on TH-cam, where I share my travels and the cultures I encounter.
Living nomadically since 2016, I settled in England in early 2022 after marrying my British husband, David. Now based in the UK, I continue to travel and share my adventures on TH-cam.
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Welcome back everyone! Thank you for tuning into another episode. On this video, I am riding to Northwest Albania on a 150CC Piaggio scooter. This scooter was lent to me complimentary by Rent Vespa Tirana. If you are interested to do the same, you can check their Instagram here: instagram.com/rentvespatirana/
Awesome. Are you planning to go Bosnia too?
H Syifa! I just wanted to mention smth.about the mentality of the Albanians regarding that incident with the man at the Church.
You see, Albanians come from communism where privacy and personal space didn't exist. Living in big families and working in groups was a common thing during those times. Therefore, even now, people do interfere a lot in your personal life with very intimate questions that make you very uncomfortable.
Sometimes, in trying to take care of you, they can annoy you a lot. It happens to me all the time when I turn back home for holidays, but I know these habits and I just try to ignore them.
The first questions someone completely unknown would ask you is " How old are you, are you married, do you have children, where do you work, how much do you get paid, etc, etc".( if you carry on talking further they might even find you a husband🤣).
They simply don't realise that this is interference and strange behaviour to the foreigners. I guess the man wanted to show off to his family and friends that he got to speak with an Indonesian tourist woman on a scooter and having a picture with you it wouldn't click to him as an unacceptable behaviour. You may be the first woman traveller on a scooter in Albania. While for you it's normal, for those people it is a novelty and something very rare. You really surprised all those people in the video when you said you are going to Kukes with a scooter. All of them raised their eyebrows as its not an easy road on a scooter, especially when you ride off- roads.
Enjoy your travels Syifa and next time you need to ask first about the conditions of the streets before you go somewhere deep into the mountains. We have ended up just like you many times.....
Beautiful smile ❤️
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Super video. Lep pogled na panoramu Albanije. Pozdrav iz Srbije. 🇷🇸
Thnx anyone is welcomed here is good to share cultural knowledge
Thank you so much Bojan!! 😊
i love so much
so nice. Beautiful country. Europe is so beautiful.
Thank you Ashiqur!!
Wow beautiful and amazing country sister enjoy it, love form Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇰❤
Thank you so much for watching, Afridi!
Wow thank you. I'm a first timer from New Zealand
Thank you so much, Mel for watching! Welcome to my channel 🙂
Such a great and wonderful adventure kak syifa... i admire u so much. Because your content... i dare my self to quit from my 9-5 job in Jakarta and start to travel fulltime all around Indonesia. Hope i can travel abroad very soon like you 🥰
Anda memotivasi saya thanks
Awww thank you Wika! Good luck for your future endeavours and I wish you nothing but the best.
amazing amazing journey great country Albania good luck syifa
Thank you so much!
You are an amazing woman! Great to follow your journey so far. I highly appreciate your courage to travel all by yourself inspite of all obstacles implied. I wish you gorgeous adventures ahead! Best wishes from a female fellow being
Aw Loredana, thank you so so much for your lovely comment. I am so humbled, thank you!!
Syifa, you really are an off-road traveller. Albania is wild ( used to be even wilder) and you are going through old roads where Albanians don't go anymore. I'm trying to figure it out how did you ended up in that unpaved road? Where on Earth did you go?
That George Bush bakery got his name as that was the place where President Bush went and sat on his trip to Albania.
As for the stupid man, I'm guessing he was pissed of that you didn't take a picture with him as he wanted to show it to people that he met a tourist woman on a scooter up there to the Church(!). A woman alone in a scooter is a novelty. This is very, very rare in Albania.
I grew up in that small town you passed with a big runned down factory outside the town before you reached that " train station" in Milot. During communism, everything was different. We used to travel a lot by train, but trains got totally abandoned during democracy and they are out of the questions right now even though there is a big plan to modernise them and the work has started in Tirana - Durres area.
Those bunkers are abandoned and they are filled up with soil and vegetation right now- hence they look very small, but in the past those bunkers were well maintained, cleaned and those bunkers used to communicate with one another.
Safe travels Syifa and take care of yourself!
@Zaydan Alfariz Albanians didn't drive during communism ( a few of them like my dad who was a professional driver) as private cars were not allowed. But we used bicycles a lot ( women as well). Now you can find plenty of women drivers, but riding motorbikes is not a common thing even for men, let alone the women.
I guess it's because our streets used to be terrible even for cars let alone motorbikes so motorbikes are not our " cup of tea".
Also, motorbikes are seen as a risky way to drive, so we don't use them so much. My brother loved a motorbike ,but my dad very strictly forbade him to use one.
@Zaydan Alfariz I don't know how much you know about Albania, but you should know that Albania is a small country with a very mountainous terrain. Building railways through mountains its not an easy thing to do,( we do have a railway through mountains which desperately needs modernization right now), but our road system has improved immensely lately. It's so much easier now to go quick and easy from point A to point B. Syifa is travelling through our old hilly roads which are mostly abandoned these days....
Also, you have to take on consideration that Indonesia's population is massive compared to Albania, so having a motorbike I guess its a necessity for you to drive through crazy traffic. Albania just needs to finish some of the main junction roads who are under construction right now to relieve the traffic ( expecially during summer holiday times when the country doubles in its population).
Regarding motorbikes, I have seen that in Rome and Naples( Italy) driving a motorbike is a necessity through their narrow, crowded streets. I don't think Albania has that same problem with its streets. You are seeing pictures of Kruja which is a mountainous town and that street Syifa is driving on is not the main road. Our roads are not that narrow in general.
As for the cars, we are nothing like Greece. We don't use Smart cars, we use mainly Mercedes Benzes as they were the best cars for our streets when they were terrible. Now, we use Mercedes because we simply like that type of car.
Anyway, building new and modernising old railways is a priority of this government right now. The work has already started.
Edit: I wish we ban cars again. We lived in Paradise during communism in regard of nature without knowing it. The country was very raw and simple, but soooo beautiful, full of wild flowers and fireflies. I don't see fireflies anymore now..........
@Zaydan Alfariz Until 2000 Albania didn't know where it was and was totally on its knees. It was chaos, uprising, people were not used with capitalism ways just yet, the War in Kosova had just ended with almost a million refugees in Albania alone, infrastructure was inexistent. These were hard times for Albania. The country had to start from zero and it was already 50 years behind his neighbours, let alone Western Europe.
But, from 2010 and after, Albanians got more prosperous and they are investing a lot in their own country right now. Albania has walked forward with giant strides and moving ahead at a very fast pace.
From being the poorest country in Europe, not only the country overpassed some of the Eastern European countries a few years ago, but this year in economic terms just overtook Bosnia & Herzegovina and North Macedonia to be right behind Serbia ( and dont forget that these countries had all their infrastructure intact).
This is a big improvement for Albania. We are a small population with a very large Albanian diaspora who pours a lot of money in Albanian economy.
I believe the future seems quite bright for Albania. Finally we have grasped what capitalism meant and the changes are quite drastic......
@@liljanasufaj4130 That is incredible, to be only slightly behind Serbia, which I consider a powerhouse in the region, is a massive feat. Actually I think tourism can play a big part - you have coastline as well as being unspoilt. I think exporting of goods can also be a big win. I personally buy bottled water from Albania because I trust it a lot more than anything made here in Australia. I hope things continue to improve and the train network gets brought back to life.
@@adamknight5089 True. Tourism is playing a big part in Albanian economy right now. This year tourism it has been " booming" and made it possible that economic growth went to almost 4%, the highest in the region. It is tourism which helped Croatia and Montenegro prosper ahead of Serbia in economic terms despite Serbia's massive industry ( Europe is investing a lot there in order to keep Serbia closer to Europe and far from Russia).
Hopefully Albania is going the same direction. We got some massive projects in place all around Albania, projects which will change the face of the country forever( ports - touristic and commercial alike, airports, highways, railways). In a small and vibrant country as Albania, these kind of projects will have huge impact.
I should add the " black economy" unfortunately as well.....Even though not legal, the drug and trafficking money has had a lot of importance into economic growth. I believe this has been secretly the main promotor of the economic growth.....
Indeed Albania is a beautiful country!!! And your travels with scooter is what I missed.
Thanks Margarita, it's not always practical to find scooter/small motorbike elsewhere. Thanks again for watching!
Such a beautiful country ! Amazing views of the hills/mountains, greeneries, sunset etc. Probably your vlog series on this country is going to be the best coverage on Albania.
Thank you so much, that's very kind of you to say this!
@@SyifaAdriana ,you are welcome. I wrote what I felt.Happy vlogging.
Maybe the guy got angry because I mean, you were taking video with him included and when he asked you a photo you said no.
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I love Annabelle’s Philippines 🇵🇭 rather than Indo……🇮🇩
don’t say like this to anyone, so If they are hurt, you would suffer curse, I swears.
Good job..I was waiting.
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Mirdita Syifa, OMG, in my reply to your last video I wrote about my visit to Kruje, to the Castle/Skenderbeg museum - and here it is! The town has changed amazingly!
It was all very raw and pretty 'empty', when I was there. Lovely to see it again, through the lens of your camera. Faleminderit!
Mirdita Diz! Thank you so much for your kind comment. I am glad that you could see the improvement of Kruje. I am sure it was a much more undiscovered when you first went to Kruje. Thank you again for watching my video :)
Albania, very beautiful country, nice castles , awesome surroundings, awesome view points..🤩 very quiet and peaceful..
Thanks for sharing this beautiful vedio ..😍
Adriana, you're so lucky girl who traveling around the world..
Take care 😍be safe ❤️
:D Yeiiiii. Just what I need to woke up here in Colombia. A Syifa travel Video with a new Scooter. XD
Felipe, thank you so much for watching my video!! I cant wait for the day that I get to visit Colombia 😊
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It’s so beautiful the cities of Albania. Except the road that led to the guesthouse. It must be overwhelming for you. But overall, it’s amazing even the viewpoint. Thanks for sharing us this video as much as you can.
Thank you Emanuel! I always think that every challenges you encounter, you grow from it. Thank you so much for consistently watching my video 😊
Syfia is this the month of November cause that’s a cold weather there or snowy ,,when did u make this vlog ??? ,,,beautiful journey
Hello from Thailand. Still watching your VDOs. It's really nice.
Hi syifa beautyful albania amazing video you are so cute ur voice so sweet and ur smile amazing bye from india reply me
Watch out where you go in Albania it can be dangers.
Cuma cewek Indonesia yang bisa naik motor, pasti orang bule pada bengong liat cewe naik scooter
Waw.. Super video.. So beautiful.. I m from India.
Hi i am from india .............
Wowwwww beautiful. Country.
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Beauty scenery. The sunset is prety. Albania is underated place for tourism. Not many people visit it, but the scanery is beauty
Thank you so much Riski! Albania is quite famous within EU countries especially the young backpackers who like to hike the mountains too.
Baru tau channel mbaknya,,salut buat mbak syifa...jaga kesehatan..salam dr indonesia
Great videos Adriana. As an Albanian I must say that the guy at the church seemed to be a weirdo, good that you avoided him quickly.
Thank you so much for watching my video 🙂
Thnx for coming to Albanian . That guy to the church it does give u an uncomfortable feeling . It was nice for him just to say hi and ask u if u need any help maybe u lost that’s it he shouldn’t be hanging aroudn with a alone lady tourist making her feeling uncomfortable . Definitely a weirdo
@@SyifaAdriana Thnx for coming to Albanian . That guy to the church it does give u an uncomfortable feeling . It was nice for him just to say hi and ask u if u need any help maybe u lost that’s it he shouldn’t be hanging aroudn with a alone lady tourist making her feeling uncomfortable . Definitely a weirdo
Bravo Andriana You are very braveit must be very difficult for a woman to travel alone in a foreign countryi watch all your videos and so i travel with you You are amazing i am from albania and me tropoia It is a beautiful place thousands of tourists go there every year to get there you have to cross a big lake two and a half hours boat trip but the trip feels like you are going to switzerland
Thank you so much for your kind comment. That's very kind of you!
10:40 WTF?? lol😂😂
ternyata orang indonesia asli cantiknya gak kalah saya orang eropa ya ....... 😀
Very beautiful video 🙏 Thank you 🙏🌹✨
Wow beautiful view be careful of driving
Small but beautiful and clean country. People are good, friendly but one resident opposed video shooting & had hassle. Any way interesting video.
One notable thing that there is no jihadi elements or hijab brand woman. So no panic of Taliban Al Qaeda ISIS or Labbek Pakistan or PFI of India.
Indian is amid Islamic terrorism at present.
Excellent video and details..when i saw the scooter and you said you were going to Kukes, all i thought about was "please not on the freeway" ... lucky you survived that.
Just asking out of curiosity, I’ve noticed that you were riding on the other side of the road as well. Maybe it is because the road was broken on the right side. So aren’t the traffic rules strictly followed at least on the cities?
Thanks for visiting my hometown Rubik, I'm sorry about the incident with that gentleman in the Catholic church, great video
Anthony and Agetina, what a coincidence to have someone from Rubik watching this video. Thank you so much for your comment 🙂
Wow..perjalanan yg sangat menantang tapi penuh panorama yang Indah.
Tetap waspada dan hati hati di jalan.
Selau sehat Mbak Syifa.
Salam dari Subcrieber baru dari jakarta.
Terima kasih banyak, Sam!
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I hope you visit Morocco, I'm very curious about that country
Thanks Lockey! I have so many countries to go to so perhaps one day I'll get to Morocco as it's so accesisble from England, where I live now. :-)
@@SyifaAdriana Would love to see a trip to Morocco, it's one of the only African countries I would really like to visit.
there are very beautiful places in Albania, but Albania has no country to make them even more beautiful
Never seen a traveler vlogger who asks for more money than you do makes you think you’re doing this videos for money not for the adventure
Damn to the kuks with a scooters you are the beast not i bealive you and for more to the old street wow to the kukes is reaylly impegnative
Wow mantap semangat keren
It's awesome.
Best Wishes.
Badri - chennai - India
please take care I am also afraid of your journey. I m big fan of you i am Indian in hyderabad.
@SyifaAdriana - A tough day but one, when the dust settles, you will look back on because you came through it unscathed. Sometimes when you travel, so many things go wrong in a short space of time. Your camera mic, the aggressive guy and the lack of road to the guesthouse all test the will to go on but, in the long run, the good things which happen so far outweigh the bad as to render the latter's significance as negligible.
Another great video and, as someone said in an earlier comment, your series will surely be the 'go-to' travel guide for Albania - I've got itchy feet now!
Tony, thanks a lot for your thoughtful comment as always. It always lifts my mood up.
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Amazing ride with such beautiful mountain scenery along the way. Albania is such a beautiful country, although you had some incidents on the road but you had such a beautiful view. I like your way of traveling, I also travel by car, but with a scooter you have a much better view of the nature around you. I live with the hope that in the near future something will change for the better and you will be able to do the same trip in my country. Thank you very much Syifa for this wonderful video, have a safe and good travels.❤️👍
Thank you so much Marin! I am very glad to read your comment. Indeed, I wish to travel to Romania some time in the future :)
a beautifull country with great people plus a wonderfully cute vlogger
Thank you so much!
you look like a Filipina, aren't you?
Adriana you are great, also inteligent women with good senses ,you was right,that rude guy was frustrated and abandoned from society and corrupted government, that train station u visit is the "highlight" picture of Albania
Thank you Elvis for your comment. I am glad to know that you enjoyed this video.
Because Bush visited that place when he was president thats why they changed the name and be careful with that bike haha
Wow!!!
Nice place.
Watching here at Baguio City Philippines.
#Mabuhay BANTAG.
I AM SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU, ADRIANA. TRAVELLING ALONE IS NOT AS SAFE AS I THINK
Very impressive and as well as crazy adventure covering the most beautiful area of Albania and the nature was looking stunning. I am watching it from my office in my lunch break and it makes me fresh and cool. Be happy and stay blessed.
Thank you so much, Kamrul. I am glad that this video accompanies your break time. Thank you so much for watching my video 🙂
very impressed with your drone footage and the production value has improved...keep up the good work Peace and JaYoe
Thank you so much Mark! I am so glad to hear that you could notice the improvement :) Hope you are well!
Enakk yaa bisa keliling Dunia
Traveling a round the world what you not try to test a bout their food we want to know like what
I really enjoy watching your vlogs riding two wheelers crossing many beautiful Rocky Mountains and you are also one of the brave women riding alone two wheelers crossing very bad Rocky road and reaching safely to your guest house.
Thank you so much Jawan. I am so glad to read your comment!
So cute and amazing pictures and videos
I realy like that video i won to see the succes is beautyfull you are the best
You have a strong street to doin i won to follow you to the kukës
I really enjoy watching your videos. Nice landscape, village. I suppose you are so happy doing that. I hope one day we can meet, I'd like you can visit Ecuador and some countries of Latin America!! Greetings and blessings to you!!
Thank you so much for your lovely comment!
she look like a half mestiza filipina beautiful girl
if you plan to trip come to hyderabad please tell me
if you plan to trip come to hyderabad please tell me
you always prove yourself to be the very admired courageous and passionate Adriana, kudos, keep safe in all your travels, Godspeed!!!
Thank you so much Avelino. I am very glad to read your comment and thanks for your kind support!
Cantik sekali pemandangan nya..
That smile in your eyes and on lips... indeed worthy of respect and love.
Thank you so much for watching!
Watching From Philippines
sendrian aja ka vlog nya..🤗
Great to watch this superbly fimed and presented interesting travel video to another place most of us have never seen, highly original style of presenting, bit like Bald has his original style too - this is different to his but is on the same level
Thank you so much William. You are so very kind to say this :) I am so glad that you enjoyed watching this video.
good luck and take care dear sister i miss you so much
Adriana thank you for the video 🙏 You look so beautiful ⚘ salute you from a fellow Albanian who lives in Germany . 🤟❤
Thank you so much for watching my video 🙂
Such a beautiful country ♥ 🥰🥰
Thank you Rashi for watching!
@@SyifaAdriana ♥
Terimakasih Vidio dan Alam keren, Petualang Sejati...tetap hati2 Adriana..bogor
Keren banget
asli indonesia nya dari mana miss👍😘
Carefully with your scooter 🤞
👍🏻💙perfect
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Syifa I love your videos and look forward to all your episodes. Please be careful and take care.
Sandra, thank you so much for your comment!
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You are awesome and brave Syifa.
Woww breathtaking those views
Menyenangkan melihat video perjalanan anda. Mengunjungi t4 yg bisa di bilang underated. Yg kurang populer dikalangan turis. Tapi sangat indah. Just be safe. Take care
Such a beautiful country with beautiful landscape.
Indeed, Andrew. Thank you so much for watching my video 🙂
The canada mnt is headed to cyracao in march.
Glad you answered my curiosity regarding the railways. When I was there in October, I noticed a lot of single track rail lines cutting through mountains etc, on my route between Berat and Korce. Never saw a train, and it wasn't a transport option on Google maps. Now I know why.
During communism it was a train that ran through mountains from Durres to Pogradec ( in the border with Macedonia). The railway system went completely bankrupt after the fall of communism and it has been abandoned for a long time.
This year, the modernization of railway work ( high speed trains) has started in the main cities from Tirana - Durres and the plans are to improve all the old railways and build the new ones such as the one which will connect Durres with Prishtina ( Kosova).
The railway tracks still exist in the Western areas of Albania, but they are so run down that they are not in use anymore for passengers. Hopefully very soon they will be rebuilt and put in good use. I loved the trains during communism and in such a country with a great and magnificent landscapes, a train ride is always a pleasure for your eyes.
Thanks a lot, Paul! Your comment makes me so happy as I stumbled upon the train station by chance. Thanks a lot for watching my video.
This is the historical legendary town of Kruja, the center of Albanian resistance against the Ottomans. This place endured 3 great sieges by Sultans themselves ( apart from other sieges) and still the Ottomans couldn't get the castle and defeat Scanderbeg and its small Army. As long as he lived, the Ottomans couldn't take Kruja so Albania enjoyed its freedom from Ottomans for more than 25 years under Scanderbeg command.
You can see the terrain of the area helped Albanians a lot. Only Albanians know the ways how to get up in those backdrop mountains behind the town. That's why Albanians love their mountains a lot as they provided us with shelter, food, protection - basically everything and they gave us always a freedom you would never get it in the lowlands. Albania stands into the crossroads between the West and the East, the North and the South. The country has been under siege throughout its entire history. Many Armies and Empires have passed through causing havoc to its inhabitants, so Albanians escaped into their high mountains and survived.
By the way, on top of Kruja mountain there is a bektashi Shrine called Sari Saltic where locals go ( the reason why you see locals walking into the road). I hope you went a bit further up than that view point as the roads heads up right onto the top of the mountain where you could have had one of the best views ever in Albania, over the mountains and the sea at the same time.
If you follow that mountain road even further, you would end up in a very famous touristic place especially during communism called Qafe Shtama, deep into the mountain range.
Enjoy your travels Syifa!
Good and breavly efforts madam
Very educative.
Dimanapun kita travel ato tinggal kita tidak bisa menghindar dari sekelompok kecil orang2 yang menurut kita tidak bersahabat. Sehat2 kak
I love it when videos start with an ad
wow. see on top mountain so fantastic. always carefull on the street.
so many beauty place on world. i hope someday i can do adventure to.
Thank you so much for watching this video 🙂
Hello, thank you for the video from Albania, you are a very ladylike girl