Terme Peshkopi

Terme Peshkopi taps bicarbonated mineral springs in the highland town of Peshkopi in northeastern Albania, capital of the Diber region, where the Drin river valley carves through limestone mountains on its way south and the thermal waters have been part of the local bathing tradition across generations of Ottoman, communist, and post-communist political change. Lake Ohrid, forty kilometres to the east across the Albanian-North Macedonian border, is the oldest lake in Europe at between four and five million years of age and among the clearest in the world, its waters supporting sixteen endemic species of fish found nowhere else on Earth and a shoreline lined with Byzantine churches, medieval towers, and Roman amphitheatres that earned it a cross-border UNESCO designation. A thermal stay in Peshkopi combines the spring waters of the Drin highlands with easy access to one of the most biologically and archaeologically extraordinary lake environments in the world.