Park Blini Shala River in Comani

Do yourself a favor and just look up the one star reviews if you’re looking to travel to shala river for enjoying the scenery in peace and like to actually sleep. Avoid like the plague if you plan on more than a day trip!

This place blasts the most obnoxious music all day and night long until midnight. I didn’t even stay here but next door at bee eco and was subjected to the torture nonstop. Earplugs or headphones would not work. They do it intentionally and as loud as possible evident from when they were confronted at 11 pm. Their response was that this is their country and the five people at the bar are enjoying it… while the rest of the valley filled with people just want to sleep and enjoy the scenery. They wreck a beautiful area for no reason other than because they feed off of terrorizing others. Never been to any country to encounter such blatantly vile and disgusting people, but thankfully, they’re not representative of most people in Albania. What a pathetic excuse for humans.. Never happier to leave an area faster!

Some private companies occupied a precious natural habitat and even if they could exploit this place for their own benefit - it is way worse than only that. If you want to enjoy this unique place be aware there is techno and pop music out of many loudspeakers louder than in any disco echoing through the gorge. There is loads of plastic trash, bottles without tethered cups and no one cares or reminds the thoughtless guests to use trash bins. When you go there by boat the company owner / guides are very friendly, no doubt. They built a wooden lodge as a restaurant and you can oply hope and presume that all the trash and faeces are properly disposed. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to be the case. But the companies exploiting this natural habitat should comply with the side effects of their business like making the guests during the boat ride aware of the nature's vulnerability and to take trash with themselves. Also they should use an amount of the very good money they make to pay a garbage collection boat which goes along the shores of the lakes and along the surfaces. We counted endless plastic bottles, plastic trash and single flip flops floating on the water and being stranded on the shores. This could be huge marketing tool and I am very sure that 95% of the people would come to Park Blini for river bank and consume drinks and food also if there would be no crazy loud disco music which you have in any club and beach worldwide. It completely devalues this unique place way more than it deserves unfortunately.