Introducing ALBANIA | The Road to Bovilla Lake | Albanian Road Trip

Описание: BOVILLA LAKE, ALBANIA: One incredible day driving a dusty dirt track to Bovilla Lake and then trekking up to Albania's most stunning viewpoint. Welcome to my Albanian Road Trip!
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I drove off-road for over 2 hours down a bumpy dirt track to get to one of the most stunning areas of Albania - the beautiful blue waters of Bovilla lake in Shtamë Pass National Park, a reservoir surrounded by lush green forests and spectacular mountains in the Tirana region.

My inspiration to drive and hike to the Bovilla Lake viewpoint was a photograph similar to the video's thumbnail - a sole figure standing on a rock perched high up on a mountain ridge overlooking the lake and miles of beautiful scenery. To see this in the flesh was my number one reason for visiting Albania. I was blown away by the landscape, the emptiness of it all, the vastness of what would stand in front of me, as soon as I saw it I knew I had to come! What I didn't expect however was the incredible adventure that went along with it - the incredulous mountain roads, the bumpy and winding Hida dirt track as I approached from the north, and the illusive sometimes dangerous hiking trail through wildlife filled pastures and ascending steeply across the face of what looked like an unclimbable cliff edge. This journey is not for the faint of heart.

Albania is one of Europe's less visited countries and that's exactly why I decided to organise a week long road trip here - starting and ending in Tirana but stopping by lots of towns and villages along the way.

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