Along the shore of Lake Ohrid lies this Bay of Bones museum, reconstructing a prehistoric village built over the water whose remains were found at the lake floor and some of which now sit in an on-land museum behind us as we look at the walkway / bridge across the water that takes us out to the immersive museum. Below more photos of the houses and views from the reconstructed village.
The pyramids of Giza it’s certainly not, but Steve and I were both quite happy that we disregarded the guidebook’s casual dismissal of this “pyramid of Tirana,” on our last-afternoon stroll around town.
Both above and below, you are seeing a piece of the Berlin Wall, next to one of the more than 750,00 or so bunkers built with Albanian state funds during the Hoxha administration. Ah, the things our governments do with our tax dollars…
In the park area around the top of the Mt Dajti Cable cars near Tirana was this peacock showing off. During some of my LA-based years, I heard from friends who lived on the PV peninsula that the feral peacocks up there would now and then scratch up a shiny expensive sports car, because when they saw their reflection in the shiny surface, their attack – the – rival instincts were activated.
Tirana: parliament building to the right, main mosque to the left. Steve pondered what the contrast between the two might indicate. Amongst images in the gallery below is the monument to Albania’s independence from the Ottoman Empire.
(so much world, so little time....) 