Travel Guide Skadar Lake

Situated in southern Montenegro, only a few kilometres from the Adriatic Sea (via the Sozina Tunnel), Skadar Lake is the largest lake in the Balkan peninsula. The with hills and islets, it spreads out of sight, about 40   000 hectares. Europe's last pelicans habitat offers breathtaking beauty landscapes that are reminiscent of the famous Along Bay in Vietnam. The lake is on the cheval of Montenegro and Albania, its shores spread over just over 200 km. Abrupt in the western part of the lake, they are bordered by plains and swamps in the northern part and Albanian side. The Montenegrin side, which accounts for two thirds of its total area, was promoted to national park in 1983. Since 1996, in accordance with the Ramsar Convention, the entire lake also appears on the International List of Wetlands, thus constituting an important and preserved site for lacustrine or migratory birds. Separated from the sea by the Montagneuse mountain range, its temperature only rarely falls below 0 ° C. One of its other particularities comes from the presence of an crypto-depression, which means that some parts of its submarine background are below sea level. These depressions, here called oko (the eye), are thirty. The deepest, known as Raduš, is 60 m deep, while the average depth of the lake does not exceed 6 m. By several of its characteristics described below, this lake is considered to be subtropical type.