Category: Travel Tips
Adjara: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Adjara Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Adjara is Georgia’s autonomous southwestern region hugging 120 km of Black Sea coastline, anchored by Batumi — a city of 402,929 people that rises from subtropical beaches to the snowcapped Lesser Caucasus in under 40 km. Founded as a Greek colony around the 4th century BC, […]
Vlora: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Vlora Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Vlora, Albania’s third-largest city with a population of 66,320, sits on the stunning Bay of Vlora where the Adriatic meets the Ionian Sea, backed by the dramatic Ceraunian Mountains. This is the city where Albanian independence was declared on November 28, 1912 — making it arguably […]
Tirana: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Tirana Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Tirana, Albania’s capital and home to 389,323 residents, sits at 110 metres above sea level in the heart of the country, ringed by hills and the dramatic peak of Mount Dajti to the east. Founded as an Ottoman settlement in the early 17th century, it has […]
Shkodra: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Shkodra Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Shkodra, Albania’s fourth-largest city with a population of 61,633, sits at just 13 metres above sea level on the Plain of Mbishkodra, flanked by Lake Shkodër — one of Europe’s largest lakes — and the dramatic foothills of the Albanian Alps. Founded over 2,200 years ago, […]
Saranda: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Saranda Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Saranda is Albania’s premier Ionian resort town, sitting on a horseshoe bay just 14 km from the Greek island of Corfu, with a permanent population of 22,613 that swells dramatically every July and August. Founded on the site of the ancient monastery of Agioi Saranta — […]
Permet: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Permet Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Përmet is a small southern Albanian town of 4,809 residents sitting at 240 metres elevation in the Vjosa River valley, flanked by the Nemërçka and Dhëmbel mountain ranges. Founded in the Ottoman era and known as Albania’s ‘city of roses and raki,’ it hosts one of […]
Ksamil: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Ksamil Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Ksamil is a coastal village of 2,731 residents (2023 census) perched at just 11 metres above sea level on Albania’s Ionian Riviera, a 4-kilometre stretch of turquoise water that rivals anything in Greece. Officially a subdivision of Sarandë municipality since the 2015 Albanian local government reform, […]
Korce: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Korce Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Korçë sits at 850 metres above sea level on a high plateau in southeastern Albania, making it the country’s cultural and intellectual capital with a population of 43,254. Founded in 1449, the city is nicknamed ‘the Little Paris of Albania’ for its French-influenced architecture, vibrant café […]
Liberia: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Liberia Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is West Africa’s oldest republic, founded in 1847 by freed American slaves and covering 111,369 km² of Atlantic coastline, tropical rainforest, and river valleys. With a population of approximately 5.5 million, it remains one of the least-visited countries in West […]
Gabon: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Gabon Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Gabon sits directly on the equator along Central Africa’s Atlantic coast, covering 267,667 km² with a population of just 498,823 in its capital Libreville — making it one of Africa’s least densely populated nations. Over 85% of the country is blanketed by primary rainforest, sheltering forest […]
Rwanda: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Rwanda Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Rwanda, a landlocked East African nation of 2,933,424 people, sits at an average altitude of 1,600 metres above sea level — earning its nickname ‘Land of a Thousand Hills.’ Founded as a unified kingdom centuries before European colonisation, it borders Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic […]
Chad: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Chad Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Chad is a landlocked Central African nation of roughly 20 million people, spanning 1.284 million km² — making it the 21st largest country on Earth. N’Djamena, the capital, sits at the confluence of the Chari and Logone rivers and was founded as Fort-Lamy by French colonial […]