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...
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Cloudy skies covering the beautiful Sharr mountains.

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Gjini Beg, Sharr Mountains

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.

Brod, Dragash

As usually we start from Prishtina  at 7 am and we arrived in the village which was hidden between the hills of Sharr mountains around 10:45 am. After that we started to hike up the mountain through a narrow trail, it was so beautiful because the sky was covered with beautiful clouds, sometimes the sun shone through those magnificent clouds. The hills were covered with thick grass, you could see amazing flower fields and plenty of sheep and cows eating grass, horses running through the hills of Brod.

Gjini Beg, Sharr Mountains

Every hill we passed, the view of the village started to get further and further till it reached a point were we mainly could see just e little part of it, with each step we approached the summit. Between 14:45 we arrived at the one of the first summits of Gjini Beg, and from there through the ridge we could reach the final summit however most of the hikers weren't prepared for the weather conditions and we had to make the call and return back to the bus safety. When we were staying at the peak it started to rain, we were in the border between Macedonia due to the clouds we couldn't see the Tito Vrv with 2748 meters high and the other surrounding mountains of Sharr.




















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