The "Billy-Goat” Stone Tour | Bredhi i Drenoves National Park

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Highlights of this tour
Tour description
General information and booking contact

Length
Height difference (m)
Level of difficulty
Requirements
Best season
Start time
Starting/end point
Number of participants min/max.
Cost

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Iljon Thanas
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Highlights of this tour

The “Billy-Goat Stone”: the natural monument and geomonument, the final destination of the tour.
The “Bear Spring”: one the symbols of the park at the most famous recreation place.
The central part of the park with some cultural landmarks like the church of Saint Peter & Paul.

Guri i Cjapit in Bredhi i Drenoves National Park, Photo: Bredhi i Drenoves National Park — Guri i Cjapit (“Billy Goat” Stone)

Tour description

The starting point of this tour is Korca City (Korçë) at 09:30 hrs, and after a 10 minute drive we will reach the border of Bredhi i Drenova (Drenova Spruce) National Park.

From there we start our hiking tour. After about 30 minutes we will reach the central part of the park, where we can enjoy the beauty of the landscape and relax on the lawns around the St. Peter and St. Paul’s church for a moment.

We continue the walk for another 30 minutes to reach the “Bear Spring” and rest there for a short refreshment. On the way there we have good chances to see traces of brown bears, red deer or wild boars.

Natural spring in the mountains of Bredhi i Drenoves, Photo: Bredhi i Drenoves National Park — Natural spring in the mountains

We continue the uphill hiking for about 70 minutes to reach the monument of nature, the “Billy Goat Stone”, where we will spend about 20 minutes, enjoying the view and taking some photos. Here we are right inside of Bredhi i Drenoves National Park, on the ridge of the Morava mountains.

“Guri i Cjapit” (the Billy Goat stone) was formed by the wind. Photo: Bredhi i Drenoves National Park/Iljon Thanas — “Guri i Cjapit” (the Billy Goat stone) was formed by the wind.

Then we start the 50-minute downhill hiking to the “Bear Spring”, which is the most important spring of the park. Here we will have some time to take a rest, refresh ourselves and have lunch.

At this place traditionally local people like to have picnics and enjoy the very cool and fresh water of the spring. In the area around the fountain you will see the oldest firs of the park.

At about 14:00 hrs we start the return journey that will take about 80 minutes to reach Korca City at about 15:30 hrs.

General information and booking contact

Length

12 km / about 6 hours

Height difference (m)

Ascent 500 m / descent 500 m
(The highest peak is at 1500 m. The tour starts at a height of 1000 m at the border of the park.)

Level of difficulty

Moderate

Requirements

Good physical condition, proper footwear, heat protection, water for the whole tour, and food.

We strongly recommend to take out a travel health insurance, including accident insurance.

Best season

Each season has its characteristic beauty, but the best season is the end of spring, summer and autumn (accessibility of the area during winter is limited).