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The Peaks of the Balkans: top destination for foreign and local adventure lovers.

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  The Peaks of the Balkans is a hiking trail that covers three countries, Kosovo, Montenegro and Albania. This trail attracs many tourists that are in love with hiking and want to see new places, meet new people and see different cultures. Not only that they seek the beautiful sceneries but also get to know the culture of the people that live in these majestic mountains. Undoubtedly, staying in nature is a wonderful thing, however if you would have to stay for 8 days, without a doubt, that's when the magic kicks in. We were for 8 days in the most beautiful parts of the accursed mountains together with people who later not only became friends with us but also we created a bond that we would never forget. Outdoor Kosova organized a training for future guides in the peaks of the balkans, our intructors were amazing and had professional attributes, they always kept teaching us new things. Our training instructurs were Fatos Katallozi and Mentor Bojku they both did an amazing job and en

Cloudy skies covering the beautiful Sharr mountains.

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As John Muir said: " Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees". It was a beautiful Sunday morning in Prishtina were we wanted to go hiking with the hiking organisation Hiking Njeri. Hence, with the 26 of May we decided to go to Gjini Beg of Dragash, this wonderful mountain is a part of the Sharr mountains and reaches its peak up to 2610 meters high and can be summited from the village of Brod and there are many different possibilities to reach that wonderful summit. Just like that one time in October of 2018 me together with two friends of mine Rinor and Abetare, we reached the summit from Qelepina Mountains and through Trapeznica until we reached the peak of Gjini Beg during the down however about this adventure I will continue to write about it some other time. As usually we start from Prishtina  at 7 am and we arrived in the village which was hidden between the hills of Sharr mountains ar