Lalzi Bay, still virgin and full of tourist resources

DURRES, AUG. 30 – The 35-kilometer long Lalzi Bay in Durres district may be considered one of the best beaches along the Adriatic Sea, or the whole country. It is just above Durres after Bishti i Palles. It is probably one of the biggest bays in the country where the human hand has not been put at work yet. It has been planned for the elite tourism.
It is normally starting with the village of Shen Pjeter, some 36 kilometers north of Durres city. One should leave the highway at Maminas to go there, or if going from Durres you may start in Sukth toward the west. Driving is almost normal, according to Albanian standards, up to Manza. But the last 12 kilometers to reach the beach and Shen Pjeter village are difficult.
There are some 15 villages of the Katund i Ri commune in Lalez. They have some 23,000 inhabitants who may profit a lot from the start of the real tourism in the area.
Still you find there a complete calm place, beach, full of pines planted in the 1960s for kilometers long. Then you have small hills with different yards. These are all almost untouched from the human hand, though the number of people going there for vacation has increased in the last years. You may still not find hotels in Lalez, though the family tourism, or the infrastructure with coffee bars and restaurants has started to splash around.
A cooperation of a local Albanian tourist agency, Tauleda, and the Italian province of Markes started to promote the area with 30 families offering their hospitality to tourists who are supplied with the best nature and sand to be accompanied by fishing and walkouts in the hills around.
Durres district has got a long beach, some 62 kilometers but only the old beach and the new one along the Golem (Kavaja) are intensively exploited these years. Government authorities have made plans to turn it, or 35 kilometers with a different view in some years, where the tourists will be able to exploit hundreds of hectares all around.
What the government should first do is very clear to everyone: find the money and the good will to supply good roads, water and power supply to the tourist areas.