Seven beacheswe keep returning to.
Build your own route or follow the wind with the captain. Distances are short — the four islets sit six minutes from the dock; Porto Palermo a little over an hour up the coast.
Seven places we keep returning to.
Build your own route or follow the wind with the captain. Distances are short — the four islets sit six minutes from the dock; Porto Palermo a little over an hour up the coast.
- 01 / 076 min from the dock
The four islets
Anchor between the second and third, swim to the chapel, lunch at the wooden taverna over grilled sea bass.
Read about this place → - 02 / 0710 min from the dock
Mirror beach Pasqyra
Pasqyra — "the mirror" — for the glass-flat water above a pale-sand floor. The shortest hop with the cleanest swim.
Read about this place → - 03 / 0714 min from the dock
Pulëbardha
Long pebble bay walled by olive groves, lined up with Mirror Beach and Kep Merli. Quieter from the water than from the road.
Read about this place → - 04 / 0718 min from the dock
Tongo island & Ftelea
A small islet with a sandy shoal off Ftelea Beach — a deeper-water snorkel stop and the classic BBQ anchor.
Read about this place → - 05 / 0732 min from the dock
Krorëz cove
Cliff-flanked, reachable only by sea. The water turns a pale, improbable green.
Read about this place → - 06 / 071h 10 from the dock
Porto Palermo
Natural harbour with Ali Pasha's stone fortress at its heart. Walk the ramparts, swim off the rocks below.
Read about this place → - 07 / 0722 min from the dock
Cape Stillo
Southernmost point of Albania. Old lighthouse, a sea cave to drift into when the water is calm.
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