Ada Travel Guide

 budapest8 Says:  About Ada Bojana:Ada Bojana is a large triangular shaped 480 hectar island that divides the river Bojana (Buna in Albanian) into two rivers. The beautiful sea front is about 2 km, each of the river banks is 2.8 km. The highest point or "summit" of the island reaches a 3.4 m... 

 budapest8 Says:  ADA BOJANAA little background info on this accidentalisland. No it's not like 'The island' in the TVseries LOST. Ada is Turkish for Island and Bojana from the name of the river Bojana flowing alongside .Corrupt and greedy officials have been selling off bitsof the country... 

 JLBG Says:  There is a children playground close to the reception. It was certainly set up in the 70s-80s and has an air of "antics" but why not ? It is perfectly working and the children I have seen were perfectly happy with it. 

 JLBG Says:  Close to the entrance and the market (behind the market), a few horses are awaiting for those who want to ride the lanes of the island and discover the nature from high, watch rare birds and the luxurious vegetation ! There was a foal, following his mother 

 JLBG Says:  Close to the reception, one tennis ground was working, lit in the evening and rolled every morning. A second one was still covered with weeds, as well as the third sport ground. Closer to the beach (this photo), two more sport grounds were still covered with weeds but... 

 JLBG Says:  The sea front is 1.8 km, which means 1.8 km of sandy beach. The grey blackish sand is very fine, which is pleasant and smooth to walk in but has some drawbacks : it sticks strongly to the skin and a mere shower is not enough, you have to rub energetically under the water to... 

 JLBG Says:  A beautiful carved fountain is standing on the lawn, along the reception building. It is a pity it is not flowing ! A dry fountain is always something very sad ! It seems it has never been completely set up as it is not sealed but only standing on logs. Certainly, that to... 

 JLBG Says:  If you enlarge the photo, you will see in the center, in the middle of the lawn/meadow, three open air showers. Under each of them, a wooden duckboard reprocessed from some pallet of breezeblocks. In the foreground, hidden under a wooden cover, the electric pump that feed... 

 JLBG Says:  Garbage cans are collected every morning by a mere farm tractor drawing a farm trailer. It is not fancy but efficient as the whole complex is always perfectly clean ! What I do not know is what they do with the garbage. It is most likely that there is somewhere a hidden... 

 JLBG Says:  Fortunately, they do not use to trim the road banks one of those noisy machines (cutting with a rotating string or a blade) but a very organic scythe. It is now very seldom that one has the opportunity to watch someone using a scythe. The movement of the scythe man seems so... 

 JLBG Says:  I know that an English visitor would not call this surface a lawn but a meadow ! Anyway, let it be called a lawn or a meadow, it is mowed in a rustic way, using an old casual farm mowing machine. It has no security protection but it works !In the back ground, a children... 

 JLBG Says:  By the side of the dining room, another dining room of the same size stands on a covered terrace. They do not seem to serve dinner in this part but it works as a bar, though the bar itself is at the other end of the building, which is not really convenient for waiters ! In... 

 JLBG Says:  The dining room is a huge room in the reception building. It has about a hundred tables of four. It is lit by a glass roof on top and by numerous chandeliers hanging from the wooden ceiling. It has a very pompous look, typical of the 60s-70s. This is where breakfast and... 

 JLBG Says:  In the lobby of the reception stands a superb artwork. It is a part (trunk ? roots ? branches ?) of an old olive tree that has been polished and varnished. It makes an almost human figure with a very flexible movement ! 

 JLBG Says:  Along the northern arm of the Bojana river, recently built private houses have been built on the island, in front of those that were already built on the other side, on the continent. I do not know if they belong to the complex or not.