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Dhima

Across the coast road

The water

The hotel's umbrellas and loungers sit on the pebbles opposite the front door, and four more named beaches are inside a kilometre and a half of it.

Potam · Himarë · Albania

Thatched umbrellas and sunbeds on the pebbles at Potam beach, with blue water beyond

From the front door

Five beaches, in order

  • PrinosStraight across the road — the quiet one50m
  • PotamThe long pebble curve the village is named for150m
  • MaracitThe next beach along toward the town250m
  • SpilleHimarë's town beach and promenade750m
  • Gjiri i FilikuritA cove reached on foot or by boat1.4km

The shore here is pebble rather than sand, which is why the water reads so clear from an upper balcony. The umbrella and loungers opposite the hotel are the hotel's own, and they come with the room.

A quiet turquoise cove closed off by a wooded headland

The headland that closes the bay

Blue sunbeds and thatched umbrellas on grey pebbles, with the coast road and the hills behind

Mid-afternoon on the pebbles

The beach and the coast road seen from an upper balcony, with clear blue water

The same beach, from an upper balcony

The sun dropping behind a headland, seen past the silhouette of a thatched beach umbrella

Sundown, from a lounger

Further out

Worth the drive or the boat

Thatched umbrellas and sunbeds on the pebbles at Potam beach, with blue water beyond

150 m

Potam Beach

The long pebble curve the village takes its name for — clear water, thatched umbrellas, and a row of beach bars that keep going after dark.

Aerial view of Himarë town and its turquoise bay wrapped around a wooded peninsula

A ten to fifteen minute walk

Himarë Town & Spile

The town beach, the harbour and the promenade where Himarë gathers each evening. Guests walk it rather than drive it.

The arched stone gateway into the ruined walls of Himarë Castle

Above the old town

Himarë Castle

The hilltop Kastro — stone lanes, Byzantine churches, and a view that takes in the whole coastline at once.

Porto Palermo Castle seen from above on its wooded peninsula between two bays

South along the coast road

Porto Palermo Castle

Ali Pasha's triangular fortress on its own peninsula, with a sheltered bay on either side of it.

Boats moored on the pebbles of Gjipe beach beneath high grey cliffs

North, on foot or by boat

Gjipe Beach

A cove where a limestone canyon meets the sea, reached down a steep track or — far easier — by boat from Himarë.

Sunbeds and swimmers along the wide shingle sweep of Livadhi beach below green hills

North of Himarë

Livadhi Beach

The wide bay on the far side of town, and a long open sweep of shingle once you are on it.

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