Category Archives: Korca

Fier

Leaving Fier

Buses

  1. Tirana
    Leave at 4:45 am, 5:15 etc. at half hour intervals until 5:45 pm. Leave from the Bus station for Tirane every half hour. They are advertised as 300 Lek, but you might get lucky and pay 200 Lek
    Furgons

Furgons

  1. Vlore
    Leave 8 am until 8 pm. Depart from the main street out of the city center towards the QTU, i.e., towards Vlore. 200 Lek.
  2. Gjirokaster and Tepelene, Berat: Furgons and Buses in the direction of these cities pass through Fier about every hour. Catch them from the unaze (intersection) at the end of the road toward Berat/Gjirokaster (across the street from the Catholic Church).
    1. Berat
      Leave 7 am until 5 pm (last run). Depart from the center of the city towards the Catholic Church. They are located in the middle of this long road, as well as at the end of the road, which comes upon a major unaze. Cost 250 Lek.
    2. Gjirokaster and Tepelene
      Cost 700 or 800 Leke depending where you get off while buses cost 600 Leke.
  3. Tirane, passing through Lushnje, Cerme/Rrugozhine, Durres.
    From 5 am to about 6 or 6:30. Pass through Fier from Tirana about every hour. Catch at the unaze near the TV Kombi station. About 500 Leke for Tirane and 200 Leke for Lushnje.
  4. Korca passsing through Librazhd and Elbasan
    Saturday mornings at 5 am

Korca

From Korca

  1. Erseke
    Bus: 10:30, 12 (to Leskovic, but Bus goes through Erseke), 12:30,1 (to Permet but goes through Erseke) — 200 Lek
    Furgon: sun up to sun down — 250 Lek
  2. Permet Bus: 1 p.m
  3. Durres Bus: 9:30 a.m~ 600 Lek
  4. Vlore
    Bus: 8:30 – 9 a.m — 1200 Lek
  5. Berat Bus 11am. 800  Lek.
  6. Tirana Bus 8 AM
  7. Saranda Bus 6 AM

To Korca

  1. Erseke
    Bus: 8, 8:30, and 9 a.m — 200 Lek
    Furgon: sun up to sun down, although more frequent in the morning — 250 Lek
  2. Berat
    Bus: 4:45 a.m — 800 Lek
  3. Vlore
    Bus; 8 a.m — 1200 Lek
  4. Durres
    Bus: 6 a.m – approx 600 Lek.
  5. Saranda
    Bus: 6 a.m. Notes: Might run only from May- Sept.

Vlore

Furgons in Vlore leave when full. There are no set time tables, though most leave sun up to sun down.

  1. Tirana
    4:30am to 6pm (summer) from the area around the market.
    About 2.5 hours. 600 Lek
  2. Fier
    5am on. Leave from the area around the Mosque (Xhamia, Jhamia) continuing all the way down the boulevard. About 1 hour. 200 Lek
  3. Saranda
    Leave from Mosque. Time was quoted as between 7- 8:30am.
  4. Orikum/ Southern Beaches
    From sun-up ~ 5am in summer. Sky Pizza, on block from the Mosque. 100 Lek
  5. Himare
    10am

Buses leave from the station behind the boulevard. They tend to wander down the boulevard very slowly to pick up passengers and it is not uncommon for a bus to leave with 1 or no passengers and be full by the time it exists Vlore.

  1. Tirana
    4:30, 5, 6, 7:30, 9:30 am, continuing on about every hour until 4.00 pm. About 500 Lek
  2. Durres
    Take the Tirana bus and get off at Durres
  3. Korca
    7am.  About 1200 Lek
  4. Berat
    6:30 am, 7:00 am, 10am, 11:30am, 2pm
  5. Elbasan
    7am and 10:30am.
  • Himare
    7am