No Longer an exit tax
by on 19 April 2006
I just returned from Tirana and as of April 2006 there was no exit tax.
Entry visas - pretend your Dutch
by bugger on 14 April 2006
If you enter Albania from one of the more obscure crossing point (we entered through mainland Greece) the Immigration authorities have to sell you a visa / entry permit We were ready (this was a few years ago now)_ with about eighy dollars to pay for a visa, but the border guard looked at us and (whilst holding our passports upside down) asked - Dutch ? We said yes, and got in for five dollars ! UPDATE : OCT 05, the rquirement for visas has pretty much disappeared now, although there is a 10 dollars charge for entering the country for the citizens of most counntries.
A sovietic feeling...
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by Rich on 14 April 2006
Walking down the streets in Sarande I had the feeling of being in a Sovietic lost city, the same buildings and atmosphere you could find last century in any suburban area of any sovietic city. Albania has been one of the strongest communist regimes in Europe, almost hermetic to the outside influence, and while the other Eastern Europe countries start developing faster and faster, Albania seems still in the 50s...