GPS Off-Road Tour Guide to Albania

Book including code for data download

For this GPS Off-Road Touring Guide to Albania, we spent two months exploring adventurous trails across the country in an off-road vehicle. The result is a collection of 29 off-road routes through some of the most remote regions in Europe. We drove every route ourselves, recorded the GPS data, wrote detailed descriptions and documented each route with photographs.

This travel guide features 29 detailed off-road route descriptions across 244 pages. The routes take you over adventurous mountain passes that require driving skill, through deep forests inhabited by bears and wolves, and along beautiful rivers. There are also plenty of camping spots in remote natural surroundings.

At the end of each route description, you will find a waypoint list that provides useful guidance for passengers who cannot see the GPS device. Each route is given a difficulty rating (SG), making it easier to assess the route in combination with the vehicle classes (FZK).

We have also rated the routes using a star system based on our impressions of driving enjoyment, scenic beauty and the overall experience. These star ratings are, of course, highly subjective.

Tips and tricks on off-road driving, together with useful background information, complete this off-road travel guide.

The Data Download

With the data download, you will receive the following for each route:
– all GPS tracks and waypoints (GPX)

The ‘GPS Data’ folder contains two subfolders. These include the track and waypoint list for each off-road route in two different file formats: a KML file for viewing in Google Earth and a GPX file, the standard exchange format for navigation software and GPS devices.

We hope you enjoy this travel guide and wish you an exciting and memorable journey.

244 pages
Completely revised 2022 edition

Which vehicle sizes is the 4×4 Touring Guide suitable for?

Vehicle Classes (FZK) 1–4

We are often asked how we classify vehicles into different categories. This is how we define them:

FZK 1: Off-road vehicles (Defender, Land Cruiser, G-Class, etc.) in virtually standard specification.
FZK 2: Pick-ups with camper units, 4×4 Sprinter, Bremach, Daily 4×4, etc.
FZK 3: Lorries up to 12 tonnes, Unimog, 12M18, 1017, TGL, etc.
FZK 4: Heavy lorries, Zetros 6×6, MAN KAT, etc.

The boundaries between the classes are flexible. A light, compact Unimog may be able to tackle FZK 2 routes that might not be suitable for a pick-up with an extremely heavy, tall camper unit and poor approach, departure and breakover angles. In this case, the pick-up would be more appropriately classified as FZK 3.

The Off-Road Touring Guide to Albania features 29 routes.

All 29 routes are suitable for FZK 1 and FZK 2 vehicles.
10 routes are suitable for FZK 3 vehicles, and of these, 5 routes are also suitable for FZK 4 vehicles.

Feedback on the Off-Road Touring Guide to Albania

We drove several of your routes, although we soon realised that you had been travelling in a considerably smaller vehicle. We had to turn back a few times because our vehicle was simply too large and too heavy.

However, even some of the ‘normal’ roads and tracks were off-road enough for us.

We had a great time and really enjoyed Albania.

Best wishes,

Carlo and Angela