Showing posts with label dajti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dajti. Show all posts

Monday, May 7, 2007

Mount Dajti (2)


Two weeks ago I went for the second time to the Mount Dajti, the mountain next to Tirana, but this time I went by myself. I used the local public transportation: bus and cable car. It was more adventurous, but not difficult.
Bus tickets are very cheap: one ride is only 20 lek, around 0.17 euro! While the cable railway is pretty new and with European standards.





It was funny to see girls wearing high heels to go there!
I also saw for the first time a muslim woman with a burqa, i.e. completely covered, only a small opening for the eyes. It is also not so common to see women with the chador, head covered but face not.




I enjoyed a lot the sunny weather and I found a quiet trail in a forest of beeches (faggi) where to hike. I know there is a project for mapping and putting signages of trails but I couldn't find any. It is also annoying that often you find military zones and the path is interrupted.

Monday, January 22, 2007

Mount Dajti & bunkers


Yesterday I had the chance to go out from Tirana and climb (by car, thanks to Beppe!) the mountain on the back, Mount Dajti, that is also a protected area. I couldn't see a lot because we arrived already in the afternoon, but it was enough to breath some clean and fresh air!
Here I could see for the first time with my own eyes the famous bunkers disseminated in Albania during the communist regime. To know more about them follow this link http://ourmanintirana.blogspot.com/2005/12/albanias-wmd.html
We were about 1200 meters above sea level, and I found very strange there were no snow!!