Recommendations on my next country, getting a little tired of the balkans

Kotor to Shkodra (Albania) is a simple, albeit rather long (5? 6? hour) bus journey. Not sure how accessible the Albanian Alps are now, but Northern Albania offers plenty of beautiful mountain scenery and a very different feel to Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia. If too snowy, you could venture further south. From there you could move into Kosovo, which despite a shared culture also has a somewhat different feel to Albania. The 'climbs' up to the fortresses in Prizren and Zvecan are fun. From there, on to Skopje, which is full of interesting/bizarre new monuments and has a different atmosphere yet again.

Thank you for your input everyone! It's clear to me that I will have to visit this part of the world again, so many countries, all with something great to offer apparently!

Yes, not difficult to travel around for a while.

Michel

rather long (5? 6? hour) bus journey.

Long? You're not Australian, are you.

You have much more interesting places or cities than Skopje in Macedonia.
In my opinion, no need to go there (Macedonia) if it's only for the capital city.
I was there ten days ago.

Michel

It's long given the short distance involved.

That's common in the Balkans...short distances but slow roads ;-)

True. I was surprised to discover that the 8hr train ride from Belgrade to Budapest was the same distance as Sydney to Canberra which, even with our pathetic trains, takes around half that time.

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