Nikolla in a public rose garden in Permet, where roses rule, whether used to make perfumes, flavoured water or the Turkish delight sought out by sweet-toothed tourists. — Photos: ADNAN BECI/AFP
In Permet, deep in the spectacular Vjosa Valley of southern Albania, roses rule supreme, whether used to make perfumes, flavoured water or the Turkish delights sought out by thousands of sweet-toothed tourists.
“Here everything revolves around roses, from cooking with them to their medicinal virtues” – everything is seen through rose-tinted glasses, joked biology teacher Ariana Nikolla.
