Sustainable environmentally-friendly travel start with the journey to your destination: Albania is easy to reach from Western Europe by train, bus and/or ferry across the Adriatic. Why not go out by ferry and back overland, or vice versa? You will see some remarkable scenery on the way!

• Travel overland by train via Belgrade to Podgorica in Montenegro. There are no passenger trains into Albania but buses link Podgorica with Tirana once or twice a day. Or you travel by bus to Shkoder and check out the train connection from there to Tirana. You can also take a train to Skopje or Gostivar in Macedonia and take a bus from there to Tirana. There are also long distance coaches to Tirana from a number of German cities.

• Take a train to the Italian ports in Bari or Ancona and sail to Durrës in Albania by overnight ferry: Various ferry operators offer daily services from Bari to Durres. Adriaferries also connects Ancona with Durres. Train services between Durrës and Tirana are currently not suspended and there is also a direct bus to Tirana from the Durrës Bus Terminal which is within walking distance from the port.