Dhermi Travel Guide

 JLBG Says:  The three photos show the village of Dhërmi, from the road leading to the beach.Photo 1 was taken shortly after the embranchment of the road and shows only the northernmost part of Dhërmi.Photos 2 and 3 were taken from further down and show a larger part of the village. 

 JLBG Says:  From the terrace of the hotel, the view was outstanding. While we were sipping a bier (though in May, it was very hot !), I took a few photos, from our table.The first and the second photos were shot northwards with hotel Dhërmi in the backgroundThe third photo shows the... 

 JLBG Says:  The first photo was taken in the late afternoon, from the terrace of the hotel.The second and third photos were taken in the early morning from the balcony of our hotel. There is a herd of horses playing on the beach.Photo four is a close up on the horses. 

 JLBG Says:  n 2007 we stayed in the village of Dhërmi. In 2009, we decided we would look for a hotel in Dhërmi Plazh (Dhërmi Beach).The road to the beach is a narrow road leaving the main road at the northern entrance into the village. It is 2-3 kilometers. On the way, there are several... 

 JLBG Says:  The three photos on this tip were taken in 1988. I feel they were taken from almost the same place that the 2007 photos on the previous tip. Some were obviously taken with tele lens.I have been able to make a comparison with 2007 photos only with photo 1.Photo 4 is an... 

 JLBG Says:  I felt that climbing a little more might give a better view on the church and on this part of the village. However, very soon, the path became wet, passed under a stone bridge and was obviously at the same time a path to go further (we met a group of children that went down)... 

 JLBG Says:  The first photo shows a general view of the Gjilek district with the church in the middle.The second photo shows the clock tower, once we were closer.The third photo shows that the enclosure where stands the church was closed and locked with a chain and a padlockThe fourth... 

 JLBG Says:  Two hundred meters south to our hotel, there was a nice and wide path that climbed to a church. As I had read that there was a church with interesting wall painting, I figured out that it might be this one and we decided we would climb towards it. The beginning of the alley... 

 JLBG Says:  Amazingly hotel Dorian Hotel stands over the torrent that split Kondraq and Gjilek, at the bottom of a narrow valley and inside a tight road hair pin (photo 1, from the south) !Photo 2 shows it from the north; On this photo, the situation of the hotel, inside a hair pin as... 

 JLBG Says:  Just below the church, I noticed a man that came with a horse loaded with a heavy load. Though I used my binoculars, I do not know exactly what he did with the load but after may be ten minutes, the horse was unloaded (photo 1) and they both climbed back the path (photo 2)... 

 JLBG Says:  Dhërmi is said to have 30 churches : Church of Santo Stefano and church of Santo Mitri from the XIIth and XIVth century. Santa Harallamb was, under Enver regime converted into a picture house of which it has kept rows of wooden seats.On top of the village, Agios Maria... 

 JLBG Says:  Gjilek district overhangs the sea and is separated from Kondraq district by a deep and narrow valley that widen near the sea. The main road connects them in an upper part, where the torrent has not carved much its bed. This is where stands our hotel “Dorian Hotel Restorant... 

 JLBG Says:  The photo shows the three districts of the city : Dhërmi district in the foreground, Gjilek district in the middle and Kondraq district in the background. In the far background, the new road to the Llogara pass makes a scar on the mountain slope. 

 JLBG Says:  Dhërmi is considered as one of the most beautiful villages in Albanian Riviera. It is built high over the sea on the slopes of the Cika mountain.Dhërmi is made of three districts : Dhërmi/ Drimadhes in the south has given its name to the whole city. It is followed by Gjilek... 

 JLBG Says:  In Dorian hotel, we had a nice meal. Nothing outstanding, but everything was very fresh and well cooked. The first photo shows our meal with various grilled fish with fries (made out of actual potatoes, trimmed in the restaurant, just for us (neither frozen nor made out of... 

 JLBG Says:  As we were parked to gaze at the Albanian Bryce canyon, we had a closer look at the bushes that covered the slope of the mountain. They were covered with bushes of a special Cistus with pretty pink flowers. It seems to be Cistus albanicus, an endemic Cistus of Albania.