Leskovik is a small city close to the Greek–Albanian border in Southeastern Albania.
Understand
[edit]Leskovik is a town and a former municipality in the Korçë County, southeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Kolonjë. It is located right at the Greek-Albanian border. The population in 2011 was 1,525. By 2023, it had fallen to 939.
Get in
[edit]You can go from Korçë to Leskovik by car for 2 hours.
If arriving by bus, the distance is 85 km.
Get around
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See
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[edit]- 1 Postenan spring (near Leskovik). Halfway up the cliff, reached by a narrow path hacked in the rock-face, all wet and slippery, with a sheer precipice below, the last pieces very bad, but they drag invalids up it. Two cranky huts are stuck like swallows’ nests on the ledge.
More a hiking trip than a hot spring tour. - 2 Burimet e Leskovikut (Sarandoporo). Several semi-warm hot springs (26.7°C) in a beautiful river valley right at the Greek border. Some hot springs are actually on the Greek side—if you enter the canyon they are on the left side, which you will feel through the warm waters.
Before the main pool at the very end of the valley, which was constructed by man, there are a few minor hot springs where you might want to take a dip. Also, before there is an abandoned spa dwelling up a hill with two falling-apart pools.
The gravel road leads very close to the springs, half way east you will find another abandoned spa village. The rest you have to wade partly waist deep through the river—probably not a good idea during heavy rains. - 3 Shelegur Lake (Rezervuari i Shelegurit), near Leskovik in Kolonje District (NE 10 km of Leskovik). A managed nature reserve.
Buy
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[edit]- 1 Bar Kafe Alex, [email protected]. Su-Th 05:00-23:00, F Sa 05:00-23:30.
- 2 Bar IRSO.
Sleep
[edit]- 1 Pylli i Vrepckës.
- 2 Hotel Restorant Landi, Faik konica, ☏ +355 67 694 6340.
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[edit]You can go in Ersekë, also in Greece, through the Vjosa river in border between Albania and Greece.