Valbona is being destroyed by man, tourists are leaving: Hydrocentrics, Hotels, and Stonestones

As soon as the route to Valbonne begins, you face a qualm that imposes the landscape and exercises activity several hundred yards away from the table announcing the entrance to the National Park, but according to residents, the sign has been deliberately moved to leave the quay.

In fact, this is just a warning from what the trip to Valbona offers. Work on the construction of the Dragobia hydropower plant is at its peak. Trucks of building materials that come and go, concrete that is available.

Ibrahim Sokolaj is 97, just as many years are in Dragobe and tells us that nothing is the same anymore.

On the way to Top Channel group has met a group of German tourists. Chris and his friends have come to Valbonne regularly for five years to do adventure sports. This time they will sail in kayak, allowing only three rivers to offer to Albania.

If you stop the course here it'll completely change, maybe the river. Water management will divert. So if you change course, step-by-step you completely change Valley”, says Chris Schwaab, German tourist.

At the main dam that will divert the course of Valbonne, the water will enter the tunnels and the riverbed will dry for several miles. Permissions have been granted by the Berisha government and confirmed by the successor Rama. Residents have sought suspension of the works, and a judicial process is under way, as according to residents of participants in public consultations have been forged.

“even works for the deceased father's signature and name. He died in 2010, and in 2013 he figures out the list where the community decision was supposedly made. By tomorrow this river will dry up. We won't see it like this.

Construction canaries continue to lay the foundations of new hotels at the entrance of the valley. This whole situation has given its epheks.

There are no “Tourists as before. Many of the tourists have fled since the years”, says Hysni Sokolaj.

The Valley of Valbona is considered one of the pearls of Albanian tourism. Unique across Europe she has attracted attention to her virgin nature, the long-touched card landscapes, and Bac Idriz nearly doesn't believe what a man is doing with his hand.

God's forgiveness is taking us captive for their cynical interests. For self-interest it has ruined what God has given us, this beauty. This vast water of these springs, with the breeze of these mountains”, he says.