This reporter is believed to be the first American journalist to visit Albania since the 1960's.
About 10,000 tourists are expected to visit Albania this year, twice the number who came in 1987.
In recent times it has become more common as many foreigners and Albanians living abroad visit Albania.
A Huffington Post article outlined 10 reasons for visiting Albania in 2013.
The best time to visit Albania is spring or autumn.
Since then, high Palestinian officials have visited Albania.
An estimated 10,000 tourists visited Albania this year, just a handful of them Americans.
Strauß was one of the few Western leaders to visit Albania in decades.
Mr President, I visited Albania as a journalist on several occasions in the 1990s.
Madam President, a few years ago I visited Albania, just after it had become independent.