Explore ALBANIA 🇦🇱 | Bënjës & Gjirokastër

Join us as we experience Albania's natural wonders and ancient past.

In this episode, we visit the Lixhat e Bënjës, a naturally occurring hot spring that's been moulded in to a perfect swimming spot. We explore caves carved by mountaineers and military forces and enjoy bathing in the warm thermal waters on offer.

After, we visit Gjirokastër and discover the best preserved example of Ottoman history in the Balkans and the birthplace of former dictator Enver Hoxha. We explore the narrow, winding streets and attempt to get our van repaired.

00:00 - Llixhat e Bënjës, Përmet
04:45 - Exploring caves
12:10 - Leaving hot springs / journey to Gjirokaster
19:10 - Gjiorokaster

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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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