I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS ALBANIA! 🇦🇱😱 (Saranda, Ksamil Beach) ALBANIA VLOG
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- I am in Saranda (Albania) and we are going to spend few days together on this beautiful part of Albania.
To be honest, I AM SHOCKED! I didn't expect at all that Albania can be so incredibly beautiful.
Is Albania worth visiting?
Is Albania a cheap place to visit?
I will answer those questions for you and I will show you the beautiful city of Saranda and the wonderful beach of Ksamil.
In the next video we will continue the exploration, so stay tuned for the next video.
Have you ever been to Albania? let me know in the comments down below. ;)
Thanks for watching and I wish you a beautiful day!
Gabi
0:00 what to expect in Albania
0:31 Boat from Greece to Albania
01:26 Arriving in Saranda
01:50 Renting a scooter in Saranda
02:25 Accommodation in Saranda (airbnb)
03:50 Money Exchange in Albania
04:06 Evening in Saranda
05:22 first impressions of Albania
06:02 ride to Ksamil
06:37 Ksamil beach
07:59 Lunch in Ksamil
08:29 Conclusions
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Is Albania worth visiting? Is Albania a cheap place to visit?
I am in Saranda (Albania) and we are going to spend few days together on this beautiful part of Albania. To be honest, I AM SHOCKED! I didn't expect at all that Albania can be so incredibly beautiful.
In the next video we will continue the exploration, so stay tuned for the next video.
Have you ever been to Albania? let me know in the comments down below. ;)
Thanks for watching and I wish you a beautiful day!
Gabi
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Why albanian use a greek word saranda for that city?
Holy Sausage, I got exactly the same in Belgium (more expensive, sure, but closer to my place). So why the hell should I go to Albania to find exactly the same things as everywhere in the world?
Is Greek city nothing to do with Albanians..where ever you see a city in the Mediteranean is probably build from Greeks
@Shqiperia "Preveza" originates from the Slavic word prěvozъ, meaning passage
@Shqiperia You dont have any rights Turkalbanian in Greek lands
Happy to see Albania growing strong with tourism!
Cheers from a Italian neighbor.
Italia🇮🇹♥️ Albania 🇦🇱♥️
Two brother countries
❤
Lov 🤝🏻🫂
MUCH LOVE TO OUR ITALIAN BIG BROTHERS
I've never seen a picture of Albania, did not expect Albania to be this beautiful 😯
Same for me.. it was such a great surprise
Why would Albania, a mediterranean country, not be beautiful?
Do you guys assume that only rich countries can be beautiful?
@@GodisMyNo1 pretty much or at least places with tourism, I've never heard of anyone going vacationing in Albania.
@@TH-camLoves2Cenosor Millions go to vacation in Albania, even though it is new to tourism. But for you westerners its only money that matters
@@TH-camLoves2Cenosor Where are you from? Albania has been getting loads of tourists these last few years.
I sold everything and moved to Saranda one tear ago. Best decision of my life .
Do you how to speak albanian
Its such a mess of a country, the nature is beautiful but the beaches are not very well looked after, everything is private and prices are like in other european countries.
If you go i'd suggest only going to see the mountains (Balkans) and little more.
I know how to speak Albania merdita meant 👋🤗 hello
And what us your opinion on Albanuan coast guards shooting two water ski tourists?
@@liaprekadinimirëdita 🥰
I'm Albanian and watching these kind of videos with sooo many nice comments from you guys fills my heart with joy .
THANKS FOR VISITING ALBANIA AND MAKING THIS VIDEO 😊❤
Im Albanian to i was one time to Saranda i was at a hotel called summer gate the hotel is amazing it 5 starts pls visit Saranda and go to the hotel summer gate
I just returned from a holiday in Ksamil, it was absolutely stunning. In fact I am working my way around Albania with our next trip planned in November where we will be staying in the North, a place called Theth. I have visited many places in Albania and can say it is one of the most beautiful countries I have ever visited. ❤️
Iam so happy people are visiting our country. And they find the time to leave a nice comment like this one😊
Theth is so beautifull
Oh thank you... I have been to Kukes many times and once went to part of Pogradec...so stunning. My lovely husband is from Kukes 😊
Thank you greatly and everyone who has been to Albania for showcasing our beautiful nation. We love and welcome all foreigners and we are all so pleased and glad you had a great time. You are always welcome back 🔴⚫. ❤❤❤
Very beautiful. Definitely a country that needs to be promoted more for tourism. I think the Albania tourism bureau needs to kick it up a notch to promote their beautiful country. Stay strong Gabi and God bless.
Yes absolutely… 🙏🏻🙏🏻
U have to understand albania have population of 3 million , and every year is visited by 6 million tourists is no way we want more tourists. Is impossible to drive in summertime.+ prices in albania are the cheapest in europe more turist more expensive it becomes
@@Spiritualwarfare587 exactly we do not want more tourists who come and litter our beautiful beaches !!!
@@Spiritualwarfare587 Tourists boost economy. Also It's expected that 8 Million tourists will visit by the end of this year and numbers are expected to grow.
@@Spiritualwarfare587 Albania is great for tourists but not so much for actual citizens! Hardly any jobs. Pay is low. Resources are being given away to foreign interests. Edi Rama buddying up to Vucic who is from the Milošević school of genocide. Despite that Albanians are some of my
favorite people. I was lucky enough to stay in Albania and Kosova during my younger years during my military service.
I found that Albanians do what they say they will no matter what! At least the ones I made friends with.
Excellent quality people,culture,language
(oldest in Balkans),foods,
and countryside.
❤️🇺🇸🇦🇱❤️
Better than Montenegro and cheaper. Now Croatia is beautiful but it is waaaah expensive. So Croatia and Albania is definitely nice. Albania and Croatia are equally beautiful just huge price difference.
Croatia 40% expensive 60% cheap
im albanian but montenegro is beatiful too
In Albania the majority of the beaches are private and full of garbage(especially in bigger cities). Publici transportation is awful which means that if you do not have a car, you can’t get around easily and see much. The sea is shallow and not good for someone who wants to actually swim. In the majority of places credits cards are not acceptable😮. Albania is 50 years behind Croatia in terms of tourism, and most importantly, in preservation of it’s own environment.
@@josipatisaj9630 no its not.. Turkiye is much better then Croatia but I cant say 50 years behind like you are bashing Albania. There is rats and sewer canals going into Croatian waters everywhere
@@josipatisaj9630Croatia is ahead of Albania its true, not 50 years brother relax you are not Greece , from Greece I accept 50 years behind but Croatia no fcking way
Thank you for visiting my country 🇦🇱❤ and congratulations for your beautiful video!
I'm buying a place now. I'm here. I love it!!!
Albania looks beautiful, I'd love to visit Albania this year!
I love albania, i visit 5 times
Awesome video Gabi, never a place i thought of visiting but looks very nice. Will stay tuned for next vlog
Bellezza straordinaria. 🇦🇱👍👋🇮🇹❤
I was there in July! You're right! It surprised me too, how beautiful and cheap to live there. And I'm going back to live for few months.
Such an amazing country❤
Very nice video. We did a daytrip from Corfu to Albania in 2013. Also arrived in Saranda, and then it was still very quiet (almost no tourism). The tour guides told us they build many hotels but almost all of them were empty. Seems tourism is growing there now. Also found that Albania has some incredible places and nature. We also went to Butrint and Blue Eye Spring. Was amazing.
we love Albania 😍we visit this country in September
Where are u from
Thank you so much for showing our country in such a positive way. 🙏🙏🙏
All east Adriatic coast is a very clean water,like a big swimingpool. 😍Very beautiful beaches in Albania.
Thanks for visiting and promoting our country brother.
A hidden gem❤…. Albania 🇦🇱. Hopefully the tourist industry will grow and more people will visit.?
Great video! Albania is truly a beautiful and unique country! 🇦🇱
Albania is becoming the hub of tourists in south Europe and western Balkans !
Really many tourist seen this year !
Tirana is surpassing even Athina in development index !
Athens has more tourism than the whole of Albania
albania population 2 milions in 2022 albania got 7milion tourists (3 times more than our population ) and even people from grecce comes to work in albania due to much flux of work
@@artalbania2023 People from Greece come to work to Albania?🤣🤣
Tian it’s amazing for as long as prices will stay down. Love Tirana but south of Albania it’s hit and miss. Not good services. People try to take the advantage of you in some place.
Come on you compare Athens with a gross national product of 100 billion with Tirana of 10 billion, development index (Hdi) of Tirana is lower than the poorest region of Greece.. Greece GDP 240B Albania 20B
Just found this video and loved it! Thank you for sharing!
Hey it's good to see your video and that is a current interest destination For myself... Always great to hear pricing transportation costs little details like that just give you a good picture especially a accommodations.. Airbnb might be good there.. Beautiful thanks 🙏🙏
Nice to visit for summer holidays it looks cool.
Looks amazing,I hope Albanian grows.
I lived in Albania for a year. It's beautiful, inexpensive, has great food and wonderful people. We have lovely Albanian friends and visit often. For me there is a downside. If you are a dog/cat lover this may not be the place for you. There are many homeless dogs and cats that are abused, injured and starved. I spent thousands feeding and caring for them. Unfortunately this is the reason I can't live in this country.
I totally understan where you comming from, i wish they would do more to care for the stray dogs, but the thing is that they are still quite behind in caring for the people, orfans etc. while the country is beautiful, nature is amazing and people are cordial and welcoming, its still a country who is building itself up from brutal communism and then a civil war, and yes still lots of problems to sort out, sadly.
Unfortunately, that's so true. It breaks my heart about the strays animals. I see a lot of improvements from many years ago, so I really look forward that empathy will be embraced by more Albanians and less pets in the street. ❤
i was shock with this as well. love the content.
Visited Albania last October 2022,loooooved it❤ beautiful and underrated
Awesome Gabi. Looks amazing 👏
Cheers 😉✌️
Saranda and Ksamil are amazing beaches 🇦🇱 🏝️
Been here the past month. You are right. Sadly, I think it’s going to get crazy expensive in near future.
Respect from Albania
ALBANIA IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, I LOVE MY COUNTRY
Just great Gabi , you have opened my eyes... Want to see more , know more.... Please 🙏
Looks beautiful! 😊
We loved the water in Albania…and the prices…compared to Sardinia, Sicily..we want to return and explore more of Albania and Montenegro..
Grazie Gabi you definitely get around some great places. I can't wait to go to Albania next year!
Awesome video 🙏🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wow 🤩 its a beautiful place
Very nice video,ALBANIA looks very beautiful and the prices are good,i'm also planing to visit this coutry soon,it looks a good destination
I was there for the last two years and am moving there. It is beautiful and the people are more beautiful. Don’t say it’s cheap , that’s is negative , say it’s inexpensive. You get great quality there, food is amazing and the produce super fresh. Remember please say it’s inexpensive.
Or to be politically correct, you can say its affordable 🖐️
Beautiful!! ... did you know that the "speed boat" you took is called a Flying Dolphin here in Greece which I love. They were designed in the 1970s and built in the Soviet Union before it dissolved and they have been very old vessels in Greece's ferry fleet but they were hard working and safe! Sadly they are being phased out as they are not very economical which is why you probably find them on these less common routes. I visited Tirana some years ago which is very interesting but the coast looks insanely beautiful, like Corfu.
I love Albania !!!
Nicely chemtrailed sky!
MAMMA MIA! ....MA QUANTO È MIGLIORATO SARANDE!..... SONO STATO DIECI ANNI FA E ALL'EPOCA ERA SOLTANTO UN POPOLACCIO POVERINO... ADESSO È DIVENTATO PROPRIO COME LA COSTA AZZURRA!...DEVO TORNARE, GRAZIE PER FARMI SCOPRIRLO DI NUOVO, GABI
Yo Gabi follow us beach we love your content and you’re on of my favorite TH-camrs we are from Los Angeles traveling the world 🌎 for 1 year
Mi fa piacere 😉✌️
Gracias!
Nice thank you.
Wow ! Good one !
Amazing video! We are from Greece and we visited Albania last summer! We had amazing vacations and we hope that we will visit this country once again in the future!
We visited Ksamil, Butrint, Sarandë and Vlore!
next year visit Velipoja its amazing 🎉
Είστε πάντα ευπρόσδεκτοι 😊
Stunning, very nice 💕💕💕👍
Wow, the scooter price is nuts (high). Considering the condo prices from your other Albania video, and knowing Phuket condo prices (and scooter rental prices there... like 6 EUR/day), the ratios are strange. You would think Albania scooter prices would be around 8-10/day.
I'm visit so many countries but so beautiful country and so warn people never seen. Im planning to visit again this time Berat and Theth and Shkodra
Beautiful place,,, kick up the tourism in Albania,, millions to be made.
Bellissime Sarande & Ksamil... 😍
amazing video
I am form saranda thank you for your video
Great video. How to travel if you don't drive. Is there good local transport from Tirana Airport to Saranda or Ksamil Beach?
Just came back from 10 days in Albania and i can tell, that is a place where world is still normal. People are awesome and what amazed me was, that dogs, goats, cows have acknowledge cars and roads, so even in sharpest turn along mountain they keep on side and wait till you overtake them. Makes me thinks, that they are smarter then my country fellas
Albania ❤
Lovely video
albania is best place in balkans and europe for retirement! 320 day of year sun and price amazing
Hi, thanks for the video. Did they ask you to show a return ticket at the border? thanks
Wow that water is truly amazing ... never been to Albana ... If I can drag myself away from Phuket maybe get there in the future
Yeah man we dont have legalized happy endings unfortunatly hahaha and weed is not legalized too
Phuket is a shithole would never go back to Phuket. Only Karon and Kata was nice.
Miss the summer months in the Jonian sea… there is nothing like it…
Thank you my friend i hope you enjoyed ur vacation yes indeed albania is a lot cheaper than other balkan countries im talking about the Mediterraneans ones
my beautiful country 😍 🦅
Indeed. Greetings from Bosnia
@@hexoroid Best regards☺️
Looks amazing! Would you recommend driving in a car in Albania? Considering driving from Italy
Belissima Saranda 😍
Just for information the Albanian money wich is called lek when u see prices like 600 or 800 means 6euro or 8 euro or 1000 means 10 euro
Che bello......ci voglio andare!
Te lo consiglio
Anch'io te lo consiglio
So so beautiful 💗💥place
Thank you for sharing, you just put Albania on my list. :)
I am going in April to corfu. Which place did you get the boat to go Albania?
Very nice! did you needed a visa to enter the country from greece? or if a european citizen you can enter only with the ID from your country? thanks
No need for visa,
I entered with my passport in few minutes, super smooth process.
I don’t know if you can enter with another ID.
Is there another video on Albania? Can’t find it!
thank you for promoting our country Gabi
Very nice places
Great video! What the name of the aribnb?
How did you get to Saranda? There's no busses or trains from Tirana. Did you drive a car?
It looks stunning, so cheap too.
Do i need a Motorcycle License for renting that bike or can i rent it with only my Drivers License? Because i don´t have a Motorcycle License. And do i need to book the Tickets for the Ferries online or do i just land in Korfu and go to the Ferries and get there a Ticket? Thanks for the amazing Video!
Omgg 😲
I visited Sarande in 1991 the country was just opening up we were escorted by Albanian patrol boats to the harbour.Well it sure has changed since the days of Ramiz Alia!!
nice video broo, hello from Romania :D come in Romania and you not regret !
If I wanted to go from Albania to Greece, do u have to go through immigration also
❤
It's amazing how things change.
I spent alot of time in Greece & Corfu in 1985/86 & it was forbidden to cross the water to Albania then.
There were even police patrol ships & boats patrolling the seas to stop Albanians entering Greece & Corfu.
From what I remember people saying, it was because there were problems in Albania over many years & drug exporting was an issue.
I'd like to know what year the police ships & boats stopped & both countries opened up to eachother.
Beautiful place, thanks for sharing.
No bro wasn’t for that but Albania was communist country and was forbidden to enter tourist from democratic country it was stupid but dictatorship paranoia 😂peace
@@albanodoko9540
Oh thanks for that, I was young & so only went off what others were saying at the time.
I remember the police ships & boats in the sea between Corfu & Albania. When I asked why they were there, I was told that.
It was also the same time there were problems in Yugoslavia.
Wow.. such a big difference. Yes I also read that until 1992 there was heavy communism in Albania and local citizens were not allowed to leave the country.
That’s what kept Albania very poor for many years. I am sure the worst is behind and the years ahead are looking very bright 😉🇦🇱
@@ridewithgabi
Enjoy all it has to offer pal 😀
@@tman5634 In Albania during communism it was the least criminal place not just in Europe but 4th least criminal in the world.We were the ones that didnt allow Greeks to enter not Greeks us.But dictatorship of course was hard for us.
I was this summer in Ksamil ,everything was lovely except the “businesses “ , trying to take advantage and make overpricing everything for tourists on restaurant’s, shops etc, adding extra money on bills etc , this is reality even if you will like it or not…
Do you know if pets were allowed on the speedboat?
Here you mention.. Is it sarande or ksamil?
Hi what’s the name of that apartment? The view is fantastic there at your apartment
ko at the end wat u saying, that part slaps
two weeks a go i was there it is beautiful ❤
What camera you using?
Hey guys great video. Did you guys went through passport control since you are leaving Schengen area?
What do you think they did in that immigration office?
👍😊
I live in ALBANIA 🇦🇱 I'm from ALBANIA
I am going to Albania in May, can you please give the link of the apartment? Thank you 💓