Përmet is a quiet town of stone houses and rose gardens on the banks of the Vjosa, the last big wild river left in Europe. Two days is enough to soak in the open-air thermal pools at Bënjë, walk the narrow Langarica canyon, and taste the gliko preserves and rakia the town is known for.
The road south runs beside the Vjosa for the best part of three hours. Settle into Përmet and walk it slowly — the small town museum, the Renaissance-era lapidar, and the great City Stone the town grew up around.
The open-air thermal pools at Bënjë beside the Ottoman Kadi bridge, the narrow Langarica canyon above them, the Frashëri brothers' house museum, and the fir forests of the Bredhi i Hotovës park before the road back to Tirana.
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