City
Shkodër
The cultural capital of the north: a lake, a fortress, a bicycle city and a Catholic heartland.
In plain language
A small ferry sails along a narrow lake between very steep cliffs. It exists so that people in the mountains can travel, but visitors take it for the scenery on the way to Valbonë.
Simple explanation
A small ferry sails along a narrow lake between very steep cliffs. It exists so that people in the mountains can travel, but visitors take it for the scenery on the way to Valbonë.
Connected subjects
These are real relationships in the Atlas — places that are near this one, and subjects it genuinely belongs with. Nothing here is a generic recommendation.
Nearby
Village
Valbonë
A wide white riverbed under 2,500 m peaks; the eastern end of the Theth trek.
Lake
Lake Koman
A 34 km reservoir in a gorge so narrow the ferry crossing is treated as a scenic journey in its own right.
Town
Bajram Curri
The road head for the Valbona valley, named after a guerrilla leader of the 1920s.
Related subjects
River
The Shala River
A tributary of the Drin above Koman, reached by boat and often called Albania's Thailand.
Energy site
Koman Hydropower Plant
The middle station of the Drin cascade, and the dam that created Lake Koman.
Guide
Northern Albania
The Alps, the Koman ferry and the Shkodër lake country — the part of Albania least like the coast.
Guide
The Theth–Valbona Trek
Albania's best-known walk: roughly 17 km over a 1,795 m pass, six to eight hours, June to October.
Lake
Lake Koman
A 34 km reservoir in a gorge so narrow the ferry crossing is treated as a scenic journey in its own right.
River
The Drin
Albania's longest river and the backbone of its electricity system, dammed three times in the north.
Comparison
![Title: A chief of Thethi, Tribe of Shale [i.e. Shala], Albania Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print. (Theth)](/static/img/thumbs/theth-4.jpg)
Theth vs Valbonë
The two ends of the same walk, and two quite different valleys.
Sources
This page draws on the curated inventory only; no external source has been attached to it yet.
Something wrong on this page? Corrections are welcome and are checked against the source record. Tell us what is wrong and, if you can, where the right figure comes from.