A small, modern town of apartment blocks 20km east of Puka along the Fan i Madh river, Fushë-Arrëz is surrounded by forested hills, remote and pretty villages, alpine pastures and ore-bearing mountains. Working hard on improving its tourism development, the town and surrounding destinations are in
Starting off as an ancient Illyrian settlement, Puka was founded along an important trade route from Shkodra near the Adriatic across the mountains to Prizren and onwards to the Danube. The town’s name quite possibly comes from the Roman word for this route, Via Publica. In the Ottoman era, fortre
Albania’s Malësi e Madhe or ‘Great Highlands’ district at the northern tip of the country is an outstanding tourist destination. The landscapes vary from the placid shores of Lake Shkodra to the wild alpine scenery of the so-called Accursed Mountains raising well over 2000 metres near the Mon
A small but historical town sandwiched between rugged mountain ranges and overlooking the confluence of the Vjosa and Drinos rivers, Tepelena was made famous by the aristocrat Ali Pasha Tepelena (1740-1822), who started off his career as a bandit robbing trade caravans but ended up as a ruthless gov
A few minute's drive south of Gjirokastra you enter the municipality of Dropull, stretching southeast along the fertile Drinos river valley to the Greek border. It's home to amazing ancient sites, mediaeval chapels and monasteries, and 35 villages with around 3500 Greek-speakers, whose rights are pr