A pitch in the grove
Bring your own tent and put it up under the olives.
Campground · Albanian Riviera
Sleep in the olive grove.
Potam, Himarë — Albania
Olive Camping is a campground, not a hotel. You sleep in a tent under mature olive trees — your own, pitched on a space in the grove, or one already standing with the mattresses made up. The sea is a short walk west, and the whole site is small enough to cross in a minute.
What you sleep in4.3 out of 5 on Google
01 — What this is
An old olive grove on the south-east side of Himarë, given over to tents. The pitches are the spaces between the trees, so the canopy does the work a parasol would do somewhere else, and the ground is grass in places and worn earth in others.
Nothing here is let as a room: the booking channel and the map record both file this as a campground. What the camp has instead is a wash block, a run of WC cubicles, and one long palm-thatched shelter with plank tables that stays lit after the sun has gone.
The wash block
A row of three basins under three round-cornered mirrors, in a panelled block open to the grove at one end.
WC cubicles
Full-height cubicles in a row under a covered walkway, doors opening onto the yard.
The thatched common area
A long palm-thatched shelter with benches, plank tables and a shade sail running off one side. It is lit at dusk, and the servery beneath it is the brightest thing on the site once the sun is down.
Shade over every pitch
Mature olives across the whole ground, with shade sails strung where the canopy thins.
02 — What you sleep in
A tent already standing
Arrive with nothing and find one pitched, with the beds made.
03 — The ground
Sixty-six metres, end to end.
This is a small site, and its size is the thing to know before you come. The grove runs about sixty-six metres from north to south and fifty-five across, which is one field, not a resort — the wash block, the thatch and every pitch are inside a minute's walk of each other.
The entrance is at the eastern edge, on the track that runs along it, so you arrive off the road straight into the trees. The ground falls away west, towards the water.
04 — Where it sits
Above the water, under the trees.
Potam sits south-east of Himarë town, and the grove looks west over the roofs to the Ionian — which is why the thatch is the best-placed thing on the site at dusk. Potami Beach is the nearest beach, a short walk down towards the water.
Himarë town is up the coast road to the north-west. If you are still working out how to reach this stretch of coast at all, the guide covers getting to Himarë, and it lists where else to stay if a tent is not what you are after.
05 — Questions
Is Olive Camping a campsite or a hotel?
It is a campground. The booking channel's category and the map record both file it as one, and you sleep in a tent under the olive trees — either your own, pitched on a space in the grove, or one that is already standing with mattresses made up inside it.
Can I turn up with my own tent?
Yes. The pitches are the spaces between the olive trees, and tents from small domes to large family tents go up on them.
What is on the site?
A wash block with three basins and mirrors, WC cubicles under a covered walkway, and a long palm-thatched common area with plank tables that stays lit at dusk.
Where exactly is it?
In Potam, on the south-east side of Himarë. Its plus code is 3QV5+QH, and the entrance is at the eastern edge of the grove, on the track that runs along it.
How big is the site?
Small — the grove it occupies measures roughly 66 metres by 55 metres, so nothing on it is more than a minute's walk from anything else.
How close is the sea?
Potami Beach is the nearest beach, a short walk west of the grove towards the water.
The score
4.3 / 5
on Google