ILLYRIAN GRAVES FROM PROPTISHTI

From Proptishti 510 m to the Illyrian Graves 795 m near Selca e Poshteme, difficulty T2, Time 1 ½ hrs.
From the Center of Proptishti, nearby the restaurant / school and park you walk down to the Shumbini river. Nearby you see the Direction Sign "Varret monumentale Selca e Poshtme. The trail is well marked with white-red-white signs.
Continue along the road about 5 minutes and you can leave the dusty road to the right on a very small path.
After 10 minutes you walk through a rocky region, but on a good way.
Soon you reach again the dusty road, follow about 200 m and you see on the left the small path that leads you up.
Through dry grassland you have to ascend during 20 meters a very swampy path.
Then you follow horizontally a small water course. You see a spring with fresh water that local people drink normally (we drank also, without having problems after that!)
You cross the dusty road once again directly and continue going easy up.
On the right you see the rest of an old road building and you go up to the right. Continuing going up through grassland you reach the saddle where there you can see a yellow sign: VARRET MONUMENTALE SELGE POSHT. There is the road and a place where about two cars can park.
Sightseeing Illirian Graves, difficulty T1, time ½ hour
Follow the yellow sign: VARRET MONUMENTALE SELGE POSHT and discover the Illyrian graves and the Akropolis. It takes you 30 up to 40 minutes.
Either you walk down to Proptishti or a car can pick you up within 2 hours after you started in Proptishti.
There is a kind man who likes to guide you to the graves. He explains you the monuments in Albanian language. Kudret (0699462901)

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