Hotel Millenium on Lake Ohrit Beach

Albania's touristic infrastructure is still at its beginnings. Outside Tirana, Durres and Saranda, you will hardly find European-style hotels. So, we were very happy to find a small, stylish new hotel just a few kilometres out of Pogradec town, directly on the sandy beach of Lake Ohrit which is one of the deepest tectonic lakes in the world. Millenium is situated in the small village of Tushemisht, not more than 1 km from the border of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Tushemisht is worth a visit because of its genuine balkan architecture (with a nice old orthodox church) but also for the villa of ex-dictator Enver Hoxha who kept his country far from contacts with the world. Hoxha's villa is a hotel, too, but we preferred MILLENIUM with its superb position on the beach, its wonderful views and sunsets from balconies, its good restaurants and its nice, well-furnished and clean rooms - all these for good value.

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