Why did no one tell me Albania looked like this until after I had already went there?
Somehow you can do the same challenge of finding trash within several clicks in Albania, as you can in India
You will never think this is true unless you look at stats or actually visit, but Albania is more polluted than India. https://www.numbeo.com/pollution/rankings_by_country.jsp
https://www.intellinews.com/albania-has-europe-s-dirtiest-bathing-waters-327902/https://everwave.de/en/2025/07/08/plastic-in-albania/https://balkaninsight.com/2014/05/28/albania-s-beaches-dirtiest-in-europe-report-says/bi/all-balkan-countries/
>>2888539>>2888538These are the two richest cities in Albania, besides Tirana which is the capital; pic related.
Durres is the second richest city in all of the country. I'm trying to raise awareness so you don't waste your money like I did, only to end up going to a country that's worse than India.
Capital city.
Also capital city
Tirana, the capital
Lake that can't be cleaned up despite millions of EU funds because people keep throwing shit in it.
It's actually so bad of an issue that their trash reaches our beaches in Dalmatia, and causes issues in top tourist destinations. I didn't even know this, and I've lived in Istria my whole life. We then have to clean up their trash, even though the EU sends them money for this to not happen.
>>2888550Croatia, meanwhile, is cleaner than the UK, US and Japan
> I was in the south last weekend, at a beach area that isn’t popular with tourists but is well-known among locals. The place was covered in rubbish, and I couldn’t just stand there and ignore it—so I cleaned it up. I gathered three large black bags full of trash.>After I finished, a family arrived and started leaving rubbish behind again. https://www.reddit.com/r/albania/comments/1kjtyn4/rubbish_everywhere/
>>2888550>Debris invades Dubrovnik, Croatia sues Albania https://pamfleti.net/english/bota/mbeturinat-pushtuan-dubrovnikun-kroacia-padi-kunder-shqiperine-i311079
Any good /k/ommando places in Albania?I hear there’s bunkers all over and a cool submarine base
>>2888565it's not worth it, bunkers are all the same and you'll get bored after seeing just one, and if you want to see submarine bases you can go to croatia for really good yugoslav era submarine bases like pic related
Albania is a gypsy shithole, so its India adjacent in behavior including how they dispose of garbage.
>>2888538Are you a naive zoomer? Everyone has always said that Albania is a cheap Third World tier country, so yeah of course it's going to look like a village when you are in the village. The gentrification of Albania is a very recent phenomenon, and the locals have begun to push back against it. Good for them. Keep Albania cheap and trashy.
>>2888538Looks just like Mexico.
>>2888587The point of interest is merely incidental to the landscape. You go for the journey. Rural peoples always want to hear a purpose for visiting their land. They treat you much more kindly when you specify a nearby place that you want to go and see.