Very uniqe and beatiful place. less them 3 hour of walking in good trail . 3 km hiking one way . One of the best attractons in Albania, it worth to do all this long way to see the blue eye

Incredible place. Go before spoiled. Hard hike up. Take paved road all way to Nderlysaj. Park by river. Hike up path on right of river looking upstream. After 300 yards or so, look at great waterfall/ formations on left. Walk down to storage rocks and lip of fall. Then continue up Valley. Flattish at first then steep. After 50ish minutes you climb over pass. After that it goes down hill. Find confusing sign to blue hole, go left, downhill. You reach first swim hole. Go over bridge. Keep going on path to right, Pass nice farm house go down to blue hole. Swim.

From Theth if you do not take a Taxi it is about 1.30 hour spectacular walk around the river to reach Nderlysaj where you can have some refreshment and swim in the pools before you head off to around 45 min hike to Blue eye. On the way there are two kiosk selling drinks. You can already swim in crystal clear but freezing water before you get to Blue Eye. When you reach the Blue Eye forgot about peacefulness as this was really busy place. If you can try to come early morning or late afternoon to enjoy serenity and turquoise water. The best how to reach blue Eye is to cross the bridge when you see it from the path and go towards old farm house to pass another small bridge from which you can take nice pictures of the lagoon and reach small restaurant where you find the stairs going down.

We drove to Nderlysaj which is reached by road turning right avoiding the bridge that crosses the river to Theth. After about 20 minutes the road runs out and here there is a large car park (free). From here it is a one hour hike to reach the Blue Eye. A couple of things to note. Firstly don't be fooled by thinking you have reached your destination just after the Blue Eye snack bar. It is another 5 to 10 minutes hike after reaching the first river bank. Cross over the bridge and head past another snack bar walking over some interesting rock formations before picking up a path leading to Blue Eye. Secondly, it is quite different from the attraction of the same name in the south of Albania. There the water bubbles up from an underground cavern. Here it is fed by a waterfall. The location feels much more remote than in the south by virtue of its location but it follows the same pattern of crystal clear water varying in colour from deep to aquamarine blue. All very attractive and it can be seen from a number of viewpoints. Some confidence is needed to explore the immediate area as access across the stream is on wooden planks.

We shared a taxi from Theth to the start of the walk. Being October the path was not too busy and relatively easy. There is a pop-up drinks cafe along the route. After about 45 minutes you reach a bridge over the water, which us very pleasant but don't be fooled... the blue eye pool is a further five minutes on... well worth the trek. We met some hikers who had hiked from Theth to the Blue Eye and the back to Theth, five or six hour round trip.... we walked back to Theth along the trail which was very enjoyable. Highly recommended.

Sadly didn’t make it all the way as we were losing light but would recommend it from what we saw. You can walk here from theth which is apparently 3hrs each way roughly or you can park on the free car park which is about 20 min drive from bottom of theth town and the road is paved all the way so an easy drive. If you don’t have a car there are tours to take you to this point. From the car park it’s about 1hr to the blue eye and falls. We enjoyed the area around the car park, couple nice places to eat and the gorge is amazing. There’s a rickety old bridge across it too which is cool but maybe needs some repair! If you walk behind the bridge, the rocks are amazing where the water has carved through. Really cool to see this time of year while the water is low. From what we did it’s an easy trail to follow and not particularly challenging.