Staff at Lola Ya Bonobo say that some 40, 000 people come through its doors each year, including touristsand local schoolchildren, as well as graduate students conducting research on everything from bonobo behaviour to the evolution of the human brain.
And it is already visited daily by busloads of Albanian schoolchildren, who make the seven-hour drive along bumpy roads from Tirana, and by tourists, most of them British, who take the ferry from Corfu to the little Albanian port of Saranda.