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Llogara Pass and the Albanian Riviera

From Vlore along the bay and up the Llogara Pass through the pine forest, then down the hairpins to the Ionian coast and along the Albanian Riviera through Dhermi, Himare and Borsh to Sarande.

Distance
78 miles (125 km)
Type
Point to point
Where
Vlore to Sarande

Plotted by us, not yet ridden

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Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.

Main roads

SH8SH95

From the map

Longest gap between fuel
15 miles
Fuel stations near the line
38
Curvature
317 ° a mile
Campsites within 2 km
44
  • The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 19 to mile 34. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
  • The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 18 to mile 38, at 441 degrees of turning a mile.
  • One motorcycle shop is within 3 km of the line.

Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.

Before you go

  • Albania is not in the EU. Check your insurance covers it, and whether you need a green card, before you go.
  • Read the GOV.UK travel advice for Albania before you go. Road standards and driving vary a lot.

On the way

  1. Vlore
  2. Llogara Pass
  3. Dhermi
  4. Himare
  5. Borsh
  6. Sarande
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1Getting there

Most riders cross to Calais by Le Shuttle or a Dover ferry, or take a longer ferry nearer the route.

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2Places to stay

Search beds in Vlore

3Cover

Check your bike insurance covers riding abroad, get travel insurance that covers motorcycling at your engine size, and breakdown cover that recovers a motorcycle in every country on the route.

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The country on this route

What GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.

Albania

Money
Albanian lek
Ride on the
Right

GOV.UK lists no extra road rules for this country beyond the ones for every trip abroad. Read its advice before you go.

On every trip abroad: your licence, insurance that covers riding abroad, the V5C and travel insurance with medical cover. The tour planner turns all of this into a checklist each rider in your group can tick off.

Places to see on the way

Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.

Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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