From Bushat to Velipoja Beach
From Bushat you can drive in half an hour to Velipoja Beach. The beautiful beach of Velipoja stretches to the South East of the of the City, 30 km from it. The beach is 14 km long and 300 m wide offering great advantages to the development of tourism. This seaside is a pearl of the Albanian nature where the sea, the river, the beach with its unexploited sand and clear crystal water, the forest, the lagoon and the mountains combine to form a harmonious landscape. Velipoja offers great chances to hunters too. It has curative climatic conditions as it is the newest beach in Albania. The average is above 25c only for 100 days each year. If you choose Velipoja beach to relax, it will not fall short of you expectations. You can swim, sail, go hunting rabbits, wild pigs, pheasant, and wild ducks, in short, you will get amused. The ones who are fond of fishing can go to the sea of Viluni River to catch trout.
Some bungalows, hotels and luxurious houses with all the necessary accommodations have recently been built. The shops offer the customers a wide choice. In the restaurants, the clients can choose either European or Albanian dishes. The public, health and post-telecommunication services are at the required level. Shkodra and Commune Bushat inhabitants are in the summer time daily visitors of the beach. The Albanians like to visit their own beautiful beaches.
The Velipoja Reservoir
The surface area of the reservoir is 694 km. In this zone there are four big marshes and 182 hectare of high pines and swamp poplar trees. Ducks of different varieties especially the red-head ones are subject to hunting. In the forest there are al lots of other animals such as turtles, rabbits, gewgaws, foxes, etc. The natural plants and fowls that live in this marsh quietly and spontaneously are quite rare in Albania.