Тропы горного велосипеда в Албания

By MTB to the hilly countryside of Berat II: the terraces and vineyards of Malinati, and back along the Osumi valley

Short bike excursion into the hilly hinterland of Berat, with beautiful views of Berat city and the Osum valley.

This Mountainbike tour goes from the mountain village Pilur across the mountains to the beach village Borsh.

This half-day tour brings you over a great dirt track and an old asphalt road – always with scenic views – from Pilur to the village of Kudhes and finally to Borsh after crossing Qeparo. Isolated in a mountain valley and surrounded by olive trees, the village of Kudhes has a unique layout, with all the houses – many of them historical ones – built along the main street winding up towards the mountain. Towards the top of the village you find a renovated village square with great views of the valley and various memories of the village`s past, including an old mill stone and a house dedicated to one of the communist parties congresses of the 1960s.

This easy tour combines some highly interesting communist legacy with beautiful views of the Ionian sea. It starts from festival venue in Borsh and leads over the modern asphalt road northwards along the coast. After some kilometers it reaches the peninsula of “Porto Palermo”, which was a restricted military zone with a naval base during the communist period. Today widely accessible, a gravel road leads all around the peninsula.

This long day tour will start from Pilur at 10:00 o’clock.  A wild 4x4 road takes you into the valley behind the coastline mountains. Here in the Vlora-valley, also called valley “Shushice” after the river which flows through it, you find yourself in a world very diverse to the coastline. It’s a world of tradition, of life rooted strongly in nature, and great hospitality.  We will cross villages of Kuc and Fterraj on the way to the final destination, Borsh with its olive groves.

This easy tour combines some highly interesting communist legacy with beautiful views of the Ionian sea. It starts in village of Himare and leads over the modern asphalt road southwards along the coast. After some kilometers it reaches the peninsula of “Porto Palermo”, which was a restricted military zone with a naval base during the communist period. Today widely accessible, a gravel road leads all around the peninsula and back to the asphalt road towards Borsh. At the beginning peninsula there`s a small detour to the left worth doing: It leads you to the limits of the naval base in a secluded bay, and to the entrance of a huge former submarine bunker under the peninsula. Back to the main track around the peninsula with great views of the sea & its islands, you reach the seaside entrance of the submarine bunker.  Leave your bike and go the final meters to explore this highly interesting piece of history. Back on the bike the gravel climbs the hill and comes back to the asphalt, where the modern road takes you to Borsh. On the way to Borsh we will also take a short stop to visit Porto Palermo Castle.

Starting from the center of Himare this circle-tour follows first some short asphalt road into the valley behind Himare. When the road changes into a 4x4 dirt track it crosses an often dried out riverbed, and starts to climb through curvy and increasingly rocky terrain towards the mountains. Along the track some old bunkers guard the valley, and who turns the head back gets rewarded with a combined view of the valley, Himare, the Ioninan sea and some greek islands. Once the highest point of this tour is reached, the biker finds the ruins of a church as well as a beautiful old house. After that the tour descends again on a 4x4 track all downhill with some stunning views of the sea and the village of Himare nestled on a hilltop. Once arrived in old Himare (worth a visit) it’s a straightforward and speedy asphalt finish down to modern Himare and the sea.

Having a reasonably easy difficulty, this route travels along an old village road and is accessible to all. It is possible to go in both directions. Eliminating the section of paved roads that leads to the thermal waters is a brief segment. The two settlements of Qilarisht and Qilarisht I Vogel are accessible through this route.