Final stop - Tirana - Farka, Paskuqan and Dajti
I’ve been doing more walking - no surprise there. There are three lake areas near Tirana. In my last post, I put up pics of my walk to the Grand Park with its lake (45 min south). Since then I’ve walked to Farka (1h to the southeast) and Paskuqan (1h25 min northwest). And today, we took a cable car to the top of Dajti mountain.
Liqeni i Farkës, the largest of the three, is an artificial lake and municipal park about 10km from Tirana.
The lake is quite nice, with paths all the way around and lots of construction everywhere. They appear to be building thousands of apartments.
Liqeni i Paskuqan has a better developed walkway area around the new artificial lake, with over 5km of walking and biking paths. According to our cabbie from today, housing construction around this lake will start when they’re finished with the Farka area. While the walk to the lake was sometimes less than pleasant (google maps trying to route me through a garbage dump), the walking area was really nicely finished. It was apparently transformed from barren land and polluted areas into a “green lung” with thousands of trees newly planted.
Not sure if you can see in this pic, but as I walked down to the lakeside path through a well-trodden path, a group of about 8 dogs ran at me, snarling and barking and generally scaring the crap out of me. I took a different route back.
This afternoon, we cabbed to the Dajti Ekspres cable car station and took the 15 min cable car up Dajti. Built in 2005 by an Austrian company, it’s the longest cableway in the Balkans (4,354 metres) to an altitude of 1,613 metres
Lovely views of Tirana on the way up
You can see Lake Farka
At the top, we took pics of the view; I lost a round of 18-hole mini golf by 14 strokes (yikes!); and we at a nice lunch (the pic has been edited to remove the people sitting at the window tables, which were sadly, full).
There’s also an adventure park, paragliding, and a 24-room hotel available, if we’d needed more time. Based on a map I saw at the bottom, there’s also lots of hiking trails, so you could cable up and hike down.
This featured blog entry was written by Deb Godley from the blog Deb Travels the World.
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