Hotel Facilities: Horse guide

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Quku i Valbones

#1:  The Farmhouse Hostel The Hostel was Alfred Selimaj’s family home up until a few years ago. Now it is a functioning hostel with 4 rooms upstairs which have a total of 16 bunk beds (well, 8 sets of bunks; 16 beds). There’s also a full and enormous lounge/common room upstairs with sofas and fireplace, […]

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Guesthouse Demush

Guesthouse Demush is a beautiful old house surrounded by many flowers — hostess Edmira just loves flowers. She also owns a mini market operating from a container next to the road (sells useful things like potato chips, soap and drinks), and her husband, Demush, does horse guiding. They are open all year. Camping is also […]

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Guesthouse Adenis

Guesthouse Adenis is run by a very friendly and charming family. The younger members of the family all speak English.  Rooms are comfortable & clean . Your host Adenis, who is all of 18 years old, has been working with tourists since he was oooh, maybe 7 years old and is now an experienced mountain […]

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Danjel’s Guesthouse

Danjel’s family has a nice old house in the Gjelaj.  Most of the family speaks only Albanian, but young Danjel speaks some English & can also serve as a guide. He also has two horses, mostly working to carry luggage over the Theth pass. The family recently invested in some renovations of the guestrooms. Open […]

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Hostel House Kukaj

Another on our short list of “Best Places.”  A BEAUTIFUL old 150-year old house, 20 minutes’ hike above the valley bottom on the Maja e Rosit Path (although 4×4 transport is also available to get there), with tasteful modern renovations inside and good bathrooms.  In a place where most people don’t really like animals, this family […]

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Stani i Arif Kadris

Several years ago I was sitting in Arif Kadri’s new ‘stan’ (shepherd’s summer house), which at the time was just a one-room stone hut they built mostly “for fun” (since back then they only used the farm in May and September).  I looked around and asked the obvious question: “Would you let tourists come and […]

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