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<title>Travel Blog | ElaineFerritto</title>
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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from ElaineFerritto</description>
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                    <title>Artificial Reefs Ksamil Albania</title>
                    <description>Just south of Saranda is the small city of Ksamil pronounced SAmeel. It is an adorable beach town with much less traffic and noise than Saranda. Just steps from the beach are 5 artificial reefs aka shipwrecks. Each of these retired wreckswere cleaned out and then purposely sunk by the US Navy for the Albanian coastline. Certain parts of the coast are only covered with sand and seagrass which o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/South/Sarand-/blog-730380.html</link>
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                    <title>Field School Transects and Mapping</title>
                    <description>The Albanian Center for Marine Research39s main objective is to train divers consisting of students grad students and phd students in the art of scientific and archeological diving. This includes learning how to transect and map underwater fields. Making a list of acurate measurements is hard enough on land let alone underwater. The students did an amazing job with their diving even with the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/South/Sarand-/blog-730181.html</link>
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                    <title>Night Dive Probitas Shipwreck</title>
                    <description>All of the diving we have done so far has been during the early morning  afternoon. Visibility has been 50 feet in all directions limited currents a cool 65 degrees and really ideal conditions. Night diving adds a new perspective to your diving profiles. Taking away visibility  buoyancy fluctuations stress more air consumption a new challenge with video and a list of other possibilities. It</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/South/Sarand-/blog-730177.html</link>
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                    <title>Gjirokaster The City of Stone</title>
                    <description>Our first day off so we took a short 90 minute trip north to the city of Gjirokaster pronounced Geerowkastra. The ride itself is like a roller coster bumps curves tall hills and definitely danger... there are some crazy drivers here Along the way there are small markets. It mainly consists one or two old men with boxes of fruit and small snacks for people to purchase for road trip snac</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/South/Gjirokaster/blog-728874.html</link>
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                    <title>The Blue Eye cave diving in Albania</title>
                    <description>This is an amazing opportunity I have to cave dive in albania. There is an interconnected cave system about 45 minutes outside of saranda with 9 different springs that have been recorded. Very very few divers venture into these caves due to the dangers and risks associated with them.  I was fortunate enough to dive with archeologist Peter Campbell and ecologist Derek smith into this insanely hi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/South/blog-728849.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 5  6 Amphoras Echinoderms and Shipwrecks</title>
                    <description>What an incredible anomaly of diving I am in shock that there are still ancient amphoras and pottery just steps from the beach here in Sarande. So many of the amphoras are in excellent condition too I39ve really enjoyed learning about the history of the Balkan region and now it39s nice to know what to look for underwater.The other interesting things to see are the echinoderms. There are</description>
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                    <title>Day 4  5 Diving in Saranda</title>
                    <description>Two amazing days in the city of Saranda with our first couple of dives for the field school. Led by Derek Smith one of the program coordinators and ecologists with the Marine Center he led the students on a dive just off the coast. Max depth was approximately 75 feet and we had not only great visitbility but interesting sea life. Lots of sea grass and mussels. The mission of the dive was to find</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/South/Sarand-/blog-727739.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 3 Saranda</title>
                    <description>Luggage has arrived Woo HooI feel so much better now that my bags have arrived. I was worried that half of the donation items for the Albanian Center for Marine Research was going to be lost in baggageland foreverOnce the bags arrived Auron his friend and driver and I headed south to Saranda. There are basically 2 roads that go to Saranda. The first being the coastline which supposedly is b</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/South/Sarand-/blog-727298.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 2 SHKODER</title>
                    <description>Luggage has yet to arrive....It turned out to be a beautiful day driving up north to Shkoder .I had heard prior to my trip not to travel North in Albania but that was a misjudged statement because not only was it beautiful countrysides but all of the people were so helpful and nice. I do not speak Albanian and it is very comforting to know that most Albanians speak English to a certain extent. </description>
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                    <title>Day One travels to Albania</title>
                    <description>Whenever I travel alone I really think that there is no easy way.Day One... long travels planned to get to Albania. LAX thru JFK thru Rome then to Tirana Albania. In total it39s approximately a 22 hour trip. From the very beginning I should have known that it was going to be a disaster. LAX flight gets delayed by an hour due to mechanical failures on the airplane. They transfer us to another</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Albania/blog-726892.html</link>
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