Rooms With a View - Shkodra, Kallaja e Rozafas

The Rozafa Castle is built at the confluence of three rivers: Buna, Kiri, Drini. This first photo is of the Kiri on the left. The "Leaden Mosque" down on the plain is still surrounded by some water, not yet having receded from the flooding a couple months ago. This is a Bektasi mosque -- Bektasi is one of the divisions of Islam, Sunni and Shia being two others. The world headquarters of Bektasi is in Albania. If you zoom in on the photo, you can see the many smaller domes of the roof.
Looking mostly west, confluence of the Kiri (left) and Buna (right). Only about 20 miles to the Adriatic from here.
the Buna is Albania's widest river. It drains Lake Shkodra, which is the largest lake in the Balkans. It is jointly shared by Albania and Montenegro.
Cindy's favorite bridge, one lane across the Buna. We crossed this bridge on our way to Dubrovnik July 2008. It was in poor repair then; a new bridge is under construction a few hundred meters downriver. The marshy area at the top is the southern tip of Lake Shkodra.
Shkodra and the Albania Alps.