The next picture shows a typical scene of rural Albania, taken from the car on the journey from Tirana to Rinas airport (which is about 15 km from Tirana).  This particular road contains a junction that will frighten anyone who has to negotiate it.  At various points, the road is a dual carriageway, and it crosses another dual carriageway, but with no traffic lights, road markings, or other means of determining who has the right of way.  You just go across, and hope people coming the other way manage to see you and slow down!

The next view is taken from half way up the Dajti, and shows some regions of forest.  You will see that many of the trees are showing stunted growth.  The reason for this is probably related to the fact that the area is rich in uranium, and was the scene of exploration activities in the past (no uranium was ever mined commercially in Albania - if it had been, it would have been shipped of to the Soviet Union for use there).  Stunted growth of trees and plants is a typical symptom of land contaminated with heavy metals or uranium and its radioactive decay products.

The final photo shows another view of rural Albania, again between Rinas and the capital city Tirana.  It is very common to see isolated houses and communities through the countryside.  The families who live in these houses will often be self-sufficient, growing their own vegetables and animals for food consumption.  Such communities are particularly susceptible to the effects of radioactive contamination, if they live near contaminated land (for example like the region shown in the previous photograph).