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From Galeb Hotel a promenade leads through a thick
pine wood to the lovely, Albatros Hotel, class A. This walk, to the
soothing sounds of waves the nearby sulfurous springs and a aromatic
plant life, is always a pleasant experience
Port Milena
Milena Canal (Port Milena) was dug in 1885 according to the
designs of the engineer of the court of Montenegro, the Russian Vladimir
Ivanovic-Varman, to allow water to flow out of the lake of Liqeni Zogajve
into the sea. Prince Nikola of Montenegro ordered this to be done after
his first visit to Ulqin, when he learnt from prominent men there that
their children were dying of malaria. The canal zig-zags and is 4.5 km
long. However, after the canal had been dug, seawater flowed into the lake
instead of the lake water flowing out to sea, because the lake’s surface
was lower. The effect of this was even greater than had been planned,
because the lake water became so salty that it prevented mosquitoes from
breeding there. Less children died of malaria, and out of gratitude the
local population named the canal after Princess Milena. A year later, in
1896, the river Drim (Drin) changed its course and one of its forks flowed
into the river Buna just below Lake Shkoder.
The Buna flooded the field of Ulqin, widened the canal almost to its
present dimensions and one of its forks flowed into the sea at Gjerana
Point. After the waters of the Buna and the Drim receded, the canal
remained as the drainage of Balta e Zogajve. Depending on the amount of
inflow and the height of the tide, water flows up or down the Canal. When
the water in Liqeni i Zogajve cools under the influence of winter winds,
the gray mullet, sea bass, lamprey and other fish are caught along the
Canal that is lined with fishing devices, kalimere. In Greek the name of
these implements means >good day, good luck>, and in Albanian >to take in
passing>, ( meaning the fish - në kalim merre). This method of fishing is
also used on the river of Buna
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