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Journey to Valbona
Preserving the Albanian Alps while creating new businesses and opportunities for local peopleJourney to Valbona, an initiative by The Organization to Conserve the Albanian Alps (TOKA), is since 2010 the best source of information for travel to the ‘wild’ (but very civilized) North of Albania. They ended up marking, mapping and maintaining over 200 km of hiking trails. They became responsible for leading the legal battle against the bad hydropower developments that threatened the […]
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English
Albanian
What we do
What we offer to volunteers
- Accommodation
- Horse-riding
- White-water sports (rafting, kayaking)
- Trekking
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“Valbona is kind of the mystical heart of legend and poetry here. In mythology, each person has an ‘Ora’ – a sort of fairy protector. They live in the forests and on mountains. Villages also have an Ora. And, according to the poet Gjeorg Fishta, the Ora of Albania ‘lives ‘there, above Valbona’. There is […]