You have a backdrop of 2000m mountains, high coast, olive groves and plants, and you stay at family-run guest houses.”
“Come in the off season and there’s fewer people, the prices are lower and the locals are more relaxed, so you get a much more authentic insight,” says local guide Ricardo Fahrig. “You’re going to meet a lot more locals.” The Albanian Riviera hasn’t been heavily developed, Ricardo says. “It’s on the Ionian Sea. Corfu is just 45 minutes across. You have a backdrop of 2000m mountains, high coast, olive groves and plants, and you stay at family-run guest houses.”