Balkan Border Crossings — Road Guide
A practical road guide to the Balkan border crossings we drive: where each one sits, which roads reach it, and what to expect on the way through.
All Border Crossings pages
- Blace and Hani i Elezit: the barrier that decides your Serbian leg — Blace on the North Macedonian side and Hani i Elezit on the Kosovan side form the main road crossing between Skopje and Pristina, carrying European route E65.
- Crossing at Blato: Debar to Dibër on SH-44 and P-1202 — Debar's road crossing into Albania is Blato, about 6 km out of the town on P-1202, meeting the Albanian post of Bllatë e Sipërme in Dibër municipality on state…
- The Prespa Border: Stenje, Goricë and the Three-Country Lake — Goricë–Stenje is the Lake Prespa border crossing between Albania and North Macedonia, linking Pustec Municipality on the Albanian shore with the village of Ste…
- Crossing from Shkodër into Montenegro at Han i Hotit — Han i Hotit is the Albanian post and Božaj the Montenegrin one, facing each other on the main Shkodër–Podgorica road about 34 km north of Shkodër.
- Medžitlija–Níki: a village post doing a motorway post's job — Medžitlija–Níki is the only open road border on the western half of the Greece–North Macedonia border, roughly fifteen kilometres by road south of Bitola.
- What actually happens at the Qafë Thanë / Kjafasan barrier — Qafë Thanë/Kjafasan is the road border on the main Ohrid–Tirana route, about 31 km and thirty-five minutes from Ohrid by way of Struga.
- Sveti Naum / Tushemisht: the Southern Way Into Albania — Sveti Naum / Tushemisht is the lake-shore crossing at the southern tip of Lake Ohrid, one of five listed points on the 186.1 km Albania–North Macedonia border,…
- The E75 gate at Tabanovce: what happens on either side — Tabanovce / Preševo is the only motorway border crossing between North Macedonia and Serbia, carrying European route E75 about eight kilometres north of Kumano…