Thursday 15 September 2016

Balkan remix, day 34, around 12500 km, near the Theth in Albania

We left the mafia like hotel around 0830, we reached Kukës very easily and then we headed to Valbone, all on paved roads. Actually all these road are in a very good shape, that's why we met a gs1200 Adventure.

SH23, Valbone on sight!

Almost on the top of Valbone.

Valbone.

 Valbone was very nice, the color of the river could even impress some swiss guys! Then we went to Fierze, I didn't remember that the Ferry for Koman was leaving only at 13.00....we arrived at 13.30 and the next one was the day after. BUT, the man called someone and told me to follow his friend's car. So I thought there were more than one ferry on the Komani lake. We followed the car for 5 kilometers down the lake, the road was on a cliff, so it was very nice to ride there, at some point the man on the car told us to go down a very bad dirt road: he couldn't go down by car. We went down till the lake and...there was nothing, just a an old small row boat wreck. So I thought they just fucked us since going back to the top would have been really difficult. Then I realized that during the ride we overtook the ferry, which was now coming toward us in order to let us in. 

Telaj, on the Komani lake.

On the ferry, the fee was 25 fucking euros per motorcycle (bike is 10€, car is 5€ per square meter), the captain and the crew were all young guys and I told them we should have paid less, since we did some of the trip by bike...at least we got a free bier and the boat trip was 2 and a half hours long. The landscapes were amazing and really something different from what I'm used to see. Out of the ferry, we rode to Shkoder, we bought some food ad we took the road to the national park od Theth, we stopped somewhere for wild camping. We could even bath into the river, very very grateful for that after this beatiful day, the first one without raining since a long time.

Camping near Logje Prekal.

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