My trip to the magical place Dhermi, Albania

Albania is little known in the traveling community and a truly hidden gem for its beautiful coast and magical national parks. For my trip to Dhermi 2 weeks ago i stumbled upon a weather phenomena, before arriving to Dhermi, there is a national park named Llogara on the way, it is way up on the hills so its colder and that early morning that i passed by it was snowing. Imagine that, on my way for summer vacation i stumbled upon snow, how is that possible. I'm not a meteorologist so i don't know much about weather events but it was amazing. Anyway this is not the main objective, the coast, is the main objective, the beaches are phenomenal.

First off, if you’re headed south, you are more than likely going to begin your journey in the capital city of Tirana. For reasons that have never been clearly articulated, Albania does not believe in central bus stations like the rest of Europe. There are proper buses, but they leave from random street corners in different parts of the city. If you want to ascertain the departure point of a certain bus, you need to scour the Internet, ask around and most likely buy your ticket from the newspaper kiosk closest to the departure point.

Dhermi has a reputation as a party beach for the Albanian elite. White rocky beach spills up to the edge of a sea that is almost unimaginably clear and blue. This is as close to unspoiled as you are likely to find in Europe. The town if one can call it that is a two block long stretch of bodegas, restaurants and very modest hotels.

During the day, visitors laze in the beach chairs along the stones, enjoy fresh fish in the beachfront restaurants or head out on the water in jet skis. At night, Dhermi and neighboring Drymades beach come to life. There are cocktail bars along the beach that give way to enormous open-air clubs as the evening goes on. Dhermi has been called the Ibiza of Albania and the clubs here draw in big name DJs like Tiesto and Paul Van Dyk. The wildest parties can be found at Havana Club.

Here are some more amazing photos

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