ESPECTACULAR LAGO DE ALBANIA, SHKODËR | ALBANIA #4

I just arrived in Skodra which is the city where I'm going to stay tonight, it's a Point more strategic than anything else but good has quite charms that I'm going to visit right now in the time that I'm staying and I'm staying In a guest house that's very good, I'll leave it here below the number is very Well, because it's 12 euros a night for a private room with private bathroom. It's actually got two beds, I don't know if you can see it there but well now I'll show you, it has two The beds with which two people can sleep cost 6 euros a night. Super well, it's very centrally located in the town of Skodra. On the border with Montenegro and it's great, I'm here he came for several The main reason is that here next to it are the Albanian Alps. But that's okay. I'll teach you tomorrow. First I'll teach you the Room, as you can see here has two beds and here has views of the garden Super well, there you see and then by here you also have the bathroom with the shower I came to a very small town that is 15 minutes away by car The town of Shiroka is a good place to see the lake. Skodra os comentaba, the lake that compares tanto Montenegro y Albania ya From Skodra you can reach the lake but really what you see is the river It's coming, the tributary of the lake but the lake itself has got to be more. To the north and then this case Shiroka is a little town that It will have about 800,000 inhabitants, not 800,000 but between 800,000 and 1,000 Inhabitants, little ones, that on a day like today in the weekend because there are a lot There are restaurants that have enough people, enough movement, If you can go by bike, Skodra is quite well known because people usually I'm moving quite a bit on my bike and since I'm here, I can come. It's very nice to do both walking and cycling, I wish I had more. I would have chosen to take the bike because I think it's in the hostel. Where I stay I leave without a problem but good as I don't have much I'd rather come by car, just like here. He ate, he saw, he said there's a lot of restaurants, here by For example, there's one called the Blue Note that might be a good choice, since There's a terrace right here with a nice view of the lake. I'm going to take a look at the lake, as there's nothing to enjoy here. He finished eating at the Blue Note, the restaurant he taught, he I eat pretty well, they have a pretty rich menu, they have quite a lot of fish. Here's the lake, so if you want to try some local fish. You have a very good opportunity in this restaurant. I'm going to go get some bruchetas. Bacon and other condiments were very good but I've had too much, or sea I don 't know if you thought it was six, but let's go. It was too much and a soup. I was too rich in vegetables to balance a little and not eat me badly. The days and then so from a plate me fuerte he took a risotto that is so muy rico As with bacon, with cream, it's very good, I'm back to full, I'm still But good thing is everything is very very rich and very cheap, I think everything has me It costs about 10 euros with the drink included so nothing cool and I'm going to I'm gonna take advantage of the last few minutes of light I have left. Now a little bit of the drone I have out there. I'm back in Skodra, here is where my hostel is, I'm going to visit The main street of Skodra is a great city, not very big either. The city has a population of 150,000 and is the fifth largest city in the country. - What? In principle Albania in general is a country quite safe, always has had A somewhat negative reputation, especially for the subject I mentioned, which It's been hermetically closed for a long time, the mafia theme. Albanocosobares y tal, which ya os contaré más adelante sobre ellos, pero en The principle is that a tourist moving normally visits the country is a place It's on a street called Kolej Dromeno, which is like the road. The main commercial road from here to Skodra is a road. totally pedestrian con bastantes comercios a los laterales, restaurantes y The truth is, it's a pretty nice avenue with a lot of good people. The atmosphere now that we're in the weekend and that's what it seems like Starting a whisper, let's hope it lasts even if it's a couple of hours Nothing but pretty, there are areas that are already more renovated, others that Still keeping the oldest Albanian style and nothing but very cool, Much ambience, now around here there is a mosque and some cathedral so that good There's a little of everything. I just wanted to tell you other curiosities from here in Albania, like You've been telling me about the recent history and so, so I'll talk to you. del Kanun, which are a series of traditions that began here in the The Albanian tribal society has been around for 500 years and has a set of rules but The most characteristic of the one I want to talk to you about is one that is similar to the one that there is. in the code of Hammurabi, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, and what it consists of, Well basically consists in that in Albania if someone commits a crime y If a person is killed, the family of the person who killed has a right to a Vengeance and this vengeance consists in that they can kill with total impunity a la person who has caused the homicide, the assassination, whatever that is, the crime Basically you can also kill a man from the killer's family, these They could kill the brother, the son, anyone who wants to be a man, this is always and When you're out of your house, the house is your zone. Sure, because it's the same, when they go out on the street they're exposed and you They can kill with total impunity, of course. Traditions that happened centuries ago and that today no longer happen, bueno pues It's only during the dictatorship. During those 47 years of dictatorship, I told you, this was totally banned. Part of the canon but when I finished all this towards the year 97 The Commission has also been involved in the preparation of the draft budget for the year. I'm going to reinstate this rule at the request of a little bit of a popular crowd. It is not something that is generalised, it is not something that happens in the whole country, it is only in the United States. Some parts of the country, especially the northern zone, it's not very typical but It's something that's still happening and it has many implications, apart from The fact that that, that like a relative of yours has killed someone and you You're threatened, but there are people who since birth have stayed Locked up in a house, because just like someone killed someone and shortly after that was born Your son and that son could be killed by this law, in fact he's estimated That by this tradition have been murdered or have been killed about 12,000 Personas, o sea is a number quite, a figure quite high, pero bueno que es It's pretty impressive. Something you see very often here in Albania these days that I have been here son Los perros callejeros, I feel so sorry for them because they're like abandoned O perdidos a su suerte, cuando vas por la carretera de hecho hay veces que tienes O lost a su suerte, when you go by the road of fact there are times that you have I'm avoiding them because they're going to the arenas or in this case because you see that There are four dogs here in the park and no one is the exception, or the sea at every corner. You're meeting, the truth is that it's a shame. I'm gonna close you up today. It's getting dark, it's raining. A little and above all that I am, I need to rest, I've been two days Sleeping very few hours and tomorrow, as he said, I pass a pick up Tomorrow at 6:20 to go to another point, so nothing I need to rest, be in I'll tell you where I'm going. Albanian Alps, but good bye I'll tell you more in detail tomorrow.