Geographical Position of Kosova
Kosova is located in the heart of South East Europe. Kosova is situated between the 42° and 44° parallels of northern hemisphere and between the 20° and 22° meridians. Positioned in the centre of the Balkan Peninsula, it presents an important junction of the Median and Southern Europe, and the Adriatic and Black Sea. Kosova’s area is 10,908 km2 and is populated by over 2 million people.
The main axis of the junction of northern and southern Balkan regions is comprised of the Ibër, Sitnica and Lepenc river valleys. This axis divides several roundabout valleys: near Mitrovica along the Ibër river passes the Adriatic highway which connects the Montenegrin coast, near Besiana (Podujeva) town; the Llapi and Toplica roads connect Kosovo with the Serbian city of Nish and with the interior part of Balkan Peninsula; nearby is the city of Prishtina and the Drenica valley which connects Drini i Bardhë (White Drini) with the shortest way to the Albanian coast. In the city of Ferizaj , the Morava e Binçës pathway is divided, which is then connected to the main river axes of the Morava and Vardar Rivers .
Prishtina: The capital city of Kosova
The easiest way to get to Pristina is by plane. There are direct flights to Pristina International Airport [1] from New York, London, Zurich, Geneva, Gothenburg, Copenhagen [2], Vienna, Hamburg, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Bremen, Rome, Verona, Ljubljana, Budapest, Tirana, Istanbul. The only low-budget flights to Pristina you can find are from Liege, Belgium. There are cheap connecting flights via Tirana and Ljubljana, but also from most of German airports.
Norwegian [3] opens a new route from Pristina to Oslo (Rygge) in June 2009. Flights on Mondays and Thursdays.
Also, Skopje International Airport is 110 km away (two hours). The bus to Pristina from Skopje takes about two hours and costs €4.50. The last bus in both directions leaves at 5pm.
From Albania, there are several daily direct bus connections to Pristina, from Tirana and Durres. From Tirana is a direct flight to Pristina every day.
There are also direct bus links from most cities in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Turkey, Macedonia, Bosnia, and Montenegro. From Podgorica in Montenegro there are at least two night buses (9pm and 10pm, approx 5 1/2 hrs) that run via Peja €16. The Prishtina bus station is quite a safe place to await sunrise (I was there on a Sunday morning). From Serbia there are several direct buses from Belgrade (6 hours, 1 day bus & 2 night busses, run by Kosovo Albanian companies, cost less than €10, stops depending on the route in NiÅ¡ or KruÅ¡evac. There are twice daily mini-buses from NiÅ¡, they cost 500 dinars (about $10) and the guys at NiÅ¡ Hostel (http://www.hostelnis.rs/) will help you get in contact with organizers, even if you aren’t sleeping there, as it is necessary to book in advance (information dates from February 2008).
There is also a bus service from Sarajevo (via Novi Pazar; Novi Pazar to Prishtina: 4 hours, 5 daily, 1st departs at 6am; last at 5pm); the trip lasts around 12 hours and costs around €20 (if you decide to take this option, get a friend to travel with you).
There are Trains which travel from Central Europe to Prishtina. These may take several hours to get there but it is a very good ride. There are no trains from Belgrade to Pristina and buses often do not connect.
If you arrive at Pristina airport – small, haphazard but recently modernized and efficient in a Balkan kind of way – you should get from the plane to the outside world within 15 minutes. The city itself is about 25 minutes away by car along the closest thing to a good road in Kosova. The many taxi drivers outside the airport will quote you €25-30 for the trip but will happily be haggled down to €20. If you pretend to be waiting for a lift from someone else they’ll compete with each other down as far as 5 Euros, but it hardly seems fair.
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