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TiranaSaurus Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/15/2003
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

Tirana, capital city of Albania, has a dangerous secret. Just to the south of the city center lies the Grand Park, a beautiful wooded oasis that promises peace, picnicing, and ...Predators! The park is the home of the rare yet vicious TiranaSaurus Rex! Journey into the wilds of Grand Park and find a cache hidden there, if you dare!

Hidden just off a path in these hunting grounds of the TiranaSaurus Rex lies an orange canister hidden under a very low rock overhang. Tree cover near here will not protect you if the TiranaSaurus spots you, but is thick enough to interfere with GPS signal lock a little bit. Down the path a bit from the cache is a clearing where a good signal can be had. So where in this dangerous territory is the treasure? It is NOT at the coordinates above, but it is nearby! To find it, see the only known picture of the TiranaSaurus ever taken. The TiranaSaurus is out hunting in the square near the Skanderbeg statue, a rare foray out from the woods it calls home. Now the TiranaSaurus has long been a menace to the innocent Albanians, who throughout the millenia have organized hunting parties to try to rid their fair land of this toothy menace. As a matter of fact, one such party is immortalized in a huge mosaic mural on a building on the north side of the square facing the statue that this TiranaSaurus is prowling about. Find this statue in the center of Tirana, then find the heroic mural and count how many members are in the hunting party. Add this two digit number to the last digits of the latitude and the longitude and you will have the correct coordinates of the treasure that lies in the land of the TiranaSaurus! Good luck! From the spot the coordinates take you, go 188 degrees for 37 meters to the NEW hiding place!

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Original Contents: Various cool goodies in a 4 inch orange cylindrical canister. After you find it, be careful when rehiding it lest it be plundered by passersby or a wandering TiranaSaurus!

Oh, by the way, on the date this cache was hidden, there were no other geocaches listed in the country of Albania. This is Albania's first Geocache!

Note on cache maintenance: I make it out here many times per year, in addition to being able to access the caches I've placed in the US. Albania in particular is on the return list three times next year. Cache visits and maintenance are not really a problenm.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Va gur ebbgf bs na byq gerr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)