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Karaburun-Sazan Marine Park
Albania's only marine national park: sea caves, wrecks and the country's clearest water.
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This section covers Albania's landscape: the mountains, rivers, lakes and national parks.
保護区域
Albania's only marine national park: sea caves, wrecks and the country's clearest water.
A pine-forested pass at 1,027 m where the road drops from mountain forest to the Ionian in a few kilometres.
A wetland and forest park wrapped around the archaeological city, on the Vivari channel.
A broad U-shaped glacial valley of white gravel and beech forest under the Alps' highest peaks.
Coastal pine forest, dunes and lagoon protecting the region's Dalmatian pelican colony.
Lagoons, pine and one of Albania's few surviving coastal alluvial forests, beside Shëngjin.
The glacial valley park at the heart of the Albanian Alps, merged into a wider protected complex in 2022.
Declared in March 2023, Europe's first national park built around a whole free-flowing river system.
A cluster of small glacial lakes among black pine on the Lurë ridge, badly damaged by logging and slowly recovering.
Old-growth beech forest on the North Macedonian border, part of a UNESCO-listed primeval forest network.
The Albanian share of a three-country park around the Great and Small Prespa lakes.
A 2,416 m massif above Berat, and the site of an annual Bektashi pilgrimage each August.
At 2,764 m the highest point in both Albania and North Macedonia, on the border ridge.
At 2,694 m the highest peak entirely inside the Dinaric Alps, deep in the Albanian Alps.
Tirana's own mountain: 1,613 m, a national park, and a 4.2 km cable car from the city edge.
The 2,045 m high point of the Ceraunian ridge, directly above the Riviera coast.
The coastal ridge that makes the Riviera: 2,000 m peaks rising directly out of the Ionian.
The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.
One of the last large free-flowing rivers in Europe, declared a Wild River National Park in March 2023.
A tributary of the Drin above Koman, reached by boat and often called Albania's Thailand.
The river that splits Albania in two — the historic dividing line between Gheg and Tosk.
Albania's longest river and the backbone of its electricity system, dammed three times in the north.
The river that carved the Osum canyon and runs through the middle of Berat.
The short outflow of Lake Shkodër, and Albania's only navigable river.
One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.
A high tectonic lake where Albania, Greece and North Macedonia meet, draining underground into Ohrid.
The largest lake in southern Europe, shared with Montenegro and a major bird wintering ground.
The largest lagoon in Albania and the western Balkans' main breeding site for the Dalmatian pelican.
Albania's second-largest lagoon, with working saltpans and the island monastery of Zvërnec.
Tirana's drinking-water reservoir, ringed by limestone cliffs half an hour from the capital.
A 34 km reservoir in a gorge so narrow the ferry crossing is treated as a scenic journey in its own right.
A karst spring of extraordinary clarity whose bottom has never been definitively reached.
Sulphur pools beside the Ottoman Katiu bridge, at the mouth of the Lengarica canyon.
A 26 km limestone gorge up to 80 m deep, run by raft in spring and walked in late summer.
A narrow limestone slot that meets the sea at Gjipe beach — the Riviera's one true canyon.
A cold spring-fed fall and pool in the Tomorr foothills near Berat.
A 25–30 m fall in the Theth valley, and a declared natural monument.