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Tirana shopping
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  • In Tirana you will find some little shops dotted around that sell good quality shoe's....look out for them.

    What To Buy: shoe's shoe's shoe's

    What To Pay: about £35/40 for a good quality pair of italian leather shoe's

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    Theme: Shoes
    Directions: Tirana
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    Local gifts for friends and family
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  • I have come across a couple of shops, one in the Sheraton that sells nice little gifts to take home and one in Tirana near to the cinema, on the other side of the road is a currency exchange and ice cream shop. This was the best one with a friendly owner.

    What To Buy: He had lots of different gifts from jewelry to wooden hand made boxes to copper tea sets.

    What To Pay: Different amounts depending what you buy.

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    Theme: Local Craft
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    Stalls on side of the road: Honey
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  • Name of Shop: Stalls on side of the road

    You will find many stalls on the side of the road selling good quality honey, you will also see the bee hives are there too.

    What To Buy: Honey

    What To Pay: I think it was about £5 for a huge jar

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    Theme: Food and Drink
    Address: We bought ours from his friend near Gjirokaster
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    Stalls: Olive oil
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  • Name of Shop: Stalls

    You can buy bottles of olive oil from locals for a very good price. You will mainly find these near the coast of Saranda and Himare and Vlore from what i have seen.

    What To Buy: Olive oil

    What To Pay: not sure but cheap

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    Theme: Food and Drink
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    stalls: Fancy a snack?
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  • Name of Shop: stalls

    You will find many stalls near the coast selling things like figs and olives if you want a snack on a long journey. Also in the summer nearly everywhere there will be stalls in towns or on the side of the road selling cooked corn on the cob.

    What To Buy: olives, figs, dried figs and sweetcorn

    What To Pay: cheap!

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    Theme: Food and Drink
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    Qendra Tregtare Univers(QTU): Shopping centre
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  • Name of Shop: Qendra Tregtare Univers(QTU)

    This is a new shopping centre just outside of Tirana with a few big names in there. There are bars, restaurants and a Euromax supermarket and electronics store. Also there are about 30 other shops there including Albtours, Mango, Vodafone and Union (money transfer). The centre is open 09:00 til 21:00. A free shuttle bus runs from the National Museum in Tirana central square to the centre every 20/30 minutes between the times of 08:00 and 22:00.

    What To Buy: All sorts of things to buy!

    What To Pay: depends

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    Theme: Other
    Address: Durres Highway
    Directions: 6 km from Tirana.
    Website: www.univers-al.com
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    music stand: Traditional music
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  • Albania - Buy the music just by this hotel
  • Buy the music just by this hotel
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  • Name of Shop: music stand

    In Tepelene next to the hotel and Ali Pasha monument there is a stall normally playing some music so you can't miss it! From here you can get tapes and cd's of traditional music from the south of Albania.

    What To Buy: music

    What To Pay: not sure how much to pay as i didn't buy anything from here

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    Theme: Music
    Directions: next to Ali Pasha monument and hotel. You will see it if you get off the bus to visit Teplene.
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    Smart shopping: Brand names
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  • Name of Shop: Smart shopping

    This shopping centre was opened in 2003 and was one of the first with brand names and designers. It has about 20 or so shops.
    Opening hours from 09:00 - 20:00


    What To Buy: Makes include Nike, Lancome, Samsonite, Levis, Diesel and Illy caffe.

    What To Pay: Depends what you buy

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    Theme: Other
    Phone: 24 65 09
    Address: Rr Dėshmorėt e 4 Shkurtit
    Directions: In the building of the sky tower
    Website: www.smartshopping.com.al
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    Comments for AlbaniaLover about Albania
    illumina Thu Jul 16, 2009 01:51 UTC
     Nice page - I haven't been to Albania since 2002 and I'm longing to go back!
    PALLINA Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:15 UTC
     I've been many times in the restaurant Juvenilia in Tirana. Sorry but my experiences in Albania (10 times) was not as positive as yours!
    klevis Thu Dec 6, 2007 21:28 UTC
     I am albanian and a small tip for the people who want to go there, go during summer, cause you will have the best time ever and south albania is the best place to spend the vacations. Thanks again for making albania wellknown. Faleminderit :)
    leonik Tue May 8, 2007 01:15 UTC
     great tips!!! i'm definitely gonna find this useful! will check back tonight! leaving for albania in about a month and 2 days... i'm finally getting to albania!!!
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