With the weather looking better my new Ukranian riding buddy Ivan and I left Budva after another quick down pour.
Few cliff jumps before the rain.
This crazy serbian scaled the cliff barefoot and then did the big jump.
Before too long we caught up to Aimie, a swiss girl riding solo so she joined the crew on our way south.
Our arvo swim location.
Aimie was on a very limited schedule as she decided to join us through albania instead of bussing it as Albania a higher risk for a solo female. We learned that northern Albania was going to be nothing nice so it worked well that we would do some big km's to get to southern albania.
Ivan doesn't like the heat, but really just wanted to work on his tan.
The team rigs
crazy town, fushe kruje (otherwise known as fishy crutch). they had a massive bronze statue of george w bush......
old pill boxes littered the coadtline
we managed to avoidmthe worst of this big storm
albanian murel at the end of our record 150km day.
awesome Mediterranean water
Ivan got a flat just before the big climb.
Ive discovered on this trip my stomach doesnt like anti inflammatories and I somehow forgot this and took some for a pain in my ankle, resulting in a spewy night. I was feelong shit but didnt want to lose the others so sucked it up with a big climb that none of us was aware of.
this photo definately does not do justice, but 1000m high lookong over the medditeranian.
road surface was amazing, the best and most enjoyable decent of my trip
hit 72km/h on a loaded touring rig
water so clear
Ivans gimbo goggles. We saidmgoodbye to Aimie who had to get to greece for her diving trip, Ivan and I chilled for 2 nights in Himare
Old navy base and submarine bunker
we stopped by an old fortress but didnt take any good photos of it.
heaps of little coves all down the albanian coast
Borche
Giving Ivan some offroad tips
this section had a great view
approach into Sarande after a day of detours that never paid off.
Albania was very different to all of Europe, very poor and undeveloped, very cheap obviously but the people very welcoming and always honking for support as they drove past.
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