Maja Harapit


Maja Harapit is a mountain in the Prokletije range in the north of Albania. The mountain is high, with its impressive high south wall the northwestern edge of a large basin, where it dominates as a prominent rock formation, the conclusion of the Shala Valley and is one of the landmarks of Theth Valley. The mountain is on the edge of the National Parks Theth.
The mountain is located near the mountain pass of Qafa e Pejës north of Theth between the mountains of the Bjeshkët e Nemuna in the West - completed by the Maja Radohimës - and the Maja Jezercë massif in the east. While the steep south wall of the Shala Valley which is part of the mountain is actually based on a broad saddle between the two great massifs, the height of steeply to a rocky point jutting which it juts from. The tip and the surrounding saddle is made of rugged rock, of sinkholes and caves penetrating karst formations.
Albania's longest horizontal cave is located beneath the south wall. Bulgarian researchers have explored its length at. The depth of the cave is. Within the cave, 15 species have been discovered.
The south wall is considered the highest rock face of the Balkan peninsula and in the summer of 2010 was a tourist hotspot for the first time by a majority of tourists coming from Germany, especially big wall climbers throughout Europe.
The name Harapi from Albanian to English can be translated as dark or Arabs.