Location – mountain:

  • Korab – (western side)

 

Starting point:

  • Gramë mountain pasture

 

Description of the trail:

This trail connects the summer pasture of Grama with the villages on the foot of Deshat mountain range via the mountain of Grama (2,345 m). From the hut, the trail moves uphill on the left side of the stream until it reaches the meadow and then continues the climb south, traversing along the left side of the gorge with the stream on the right. After a gentle uphill of about 2 km, the climb continues towards the east, to the highest point of the pass at 2,992 m.

From the pass, a steep zigzag trail moves down. Losing about 340 m of altitude over approximately 1 km, the trail towards Zagrad continues left (west), traversing the grassy slope where it gains about 150 m of altitude over a 2 km stretch. This almost level stretch leads close to the border, where it descends south along a steep meadow trail. Within 1.5 km it passes by a shepherd’s hut and from there the trail continues the descent southwest towards the village of Zagrad on a gravelly trail.

 

 

Technical and touristic information:

Altitude of the starting point: Grama – 1,780 m

Highest point: 2,300 m

Altitude of the ending point: Zagrad – 1,190 m

Altitude difference: 500 m

Duration of the hiking tour: 5.30 – 6.30 hours

Length of the tour: 12 km

Difficulty of the tour: (Proofreader’s Note: Please add here)  ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Required fitness level: (Proofreader’s Note: Please add here) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

 

Panoramas and landscapes:  

From the wide pastures of Grama where water doesn’t dry at any time of the year we climb Grama mountain and our views open up towards the Deshat range and a small village on the foot of the mountain to the south, and Mount Korab on the north.

 

Access to the starting point:

  • Highway Tirana – Kukës, 145 km
  • Local road Kukës – Radomirë, 45 km
  • Dirt road Sllatinë- Grama, 15 km

 

Access to the ending point:

  • Highway Tirana – Kukës, 145 km or road Tiranë – Burrel – Peshkopi, 155 km
  • Local road Kukës – Zagrad, 82 km
  • Local road Peshkopi – Zagrad, 8km

 

Accommodation and food:

  • Accommodation at Xhemal Kaloshi shephard’s hut, Grama
    • (41°44’27.8″N 20°30’11.4″E/741057, 20.503176)
  • Accommodation in Zagrad:
    • Xhavit Feta (homestay)
      • (41°42’04.1″N 20°29’59.9″E /701144, 20.499971)
    •  Pajtim Feta (homestay)
      • (41°42’07.6″N 20°30’00.0″E / 41.702100, 20.500003)