Rural Tirana: 4-Day City Break with Dajti Hike, Pellumbas Cave & Bovilla Lake

The city exhales as you drive away from Skanderbeg Square: cafes open, shopkeepers sweep, and the concrete geometry of Tirana softens into the green shoulder of Dajti National Park. In a single morning you take the cable car above the city—glass windows catching neighborhoods like map tiles—and step into a pine-scented track where the wind seems to push you uphill. The Dajti tramway gives way to a 5 km trail that climbs from about 1,030 m to Tujani Peak at 1,524 m; the air thins and the view grows sharper, folding Bovilla Lake, the Adriatic horizon, and Albania’s inland ridgelines into a single panorama.