Albania today
Life & travel in Albania
How do you get around, pay, order a coffee, shop or ask for help? A practical guide to everyday life in Albania and to travelling with better bearings.
Getting around
City buses, intercity routes, terminals, taxis and useful habits for planning a journey.
💳Money & everyday life
Lek, payments, phones, cafés, markets and everyday habits.
☕Social customs
Hospitality, coffee, greetings, pace of life and small gestures that make encounters easier.
🩺Health & safety
Useful numbers, pharmacies, healthcare and official resources for travellers.
🍽️Eating & ordering
Move directly from everyday culture to restaurant vocabulary.
🛍️Shopping
Markets, shops and useful phrases for asking a price or quantity.
Everyday Albania
A few scenes to give a face to the situations practised in the lessons.
See Albania as it changes
Alongside the photos stored on the site, these open sources show recent scenes of Tirana: traffic and a neighbourhood market in 2025, an urban street in 2024 and markets photographed in 2025.
Sources: Wikimedia Commons · licences are shown on each file (CC0 or CC BY-SA depending on the photo).
Travelling through Albania on video
A DW Travel report that visits Tirana and explains bus travel before continuing to Durrës, Shkodër, Lake Koman and Valbona.
Watch on YouTube ↗▶ Travel guide · DW TravelTest yourself in a real-life situation
You have just arrived in Tirana. Find your transport, understand directions, order a coffee and ask for the bill.
