Albania Travel Podcast with Endrit Hoxha

society, culture, places, travel, documentary, education · EN-US

Albania sits in Southern Europe along the Strait of Otranto, where the Adriatic and Ionian seas meet. Its terrain is mostly mountains and hills, with small plains along the coast and a mild temperate climate. The podcast follows a single resident approach, settling somewhere long enough to understand how Albanians actually travel their own country. Across the series he moves from Tirana and the port of Vlorë to the southern town of Përmet, then north to Shkodër near the Montenegrin border. The episodes connect these places through shared history: Ottoman rule, the Italian and German occupations, and the communist period that followed. This is the range the show covers. The show unfolds over at least two years, so the cool, wet winters and hot, dry summers shape each visit. He returns to places in different seasons, watching the interior stay cooler and wetter than the coast. That slow return is how the show builds a resident's map of Albania, one pass, one market town,