The tax that Kumbaro has imposed on the residents of Divjaka and all three people who want to go to Divjaka Beach has a genesis in the desire of the leaders of the protected areas agency to collect taxes from daily visitors to the beach.
During the summer season, on the wide sand beach created by the pull of the sea, there is a very large number of vehicles of daily beachgoers of Divjaka beach.
Until now, they pay 100 new lek per day to the municipality of Divjaka. The protected areas agency wants to tax all this flow of vehicles and people who do not actually stay in the large area of the park, but only near the bars and the beach.
The residents of Divjaka reacted strongly to the beam that was placed on the only road leading to the beach, breaking the windows of the tax booth. For the older ones, that beam was a reminiscence of the past when Divjakas went to the beach, passing the checkpoint set up by the communist regime with their passports.
While in 2010, by court decision, another beam placed by the municipality on the road to the beach and the park was brought down. This is the only road that is used both by the residents of Divjaka, the employees of the businesses that are on the coast, but also by the visitors of the park.
Albania has more than 60 protected areas and parks, but only two of them have a fee. The first is in the blue eye where the road leads only to the blue eye and the second is in Dajt at the entrance of the park which is used only by park visitors.
Divjaka is almost the same as the park of Llogora, there the vehicles pass on the national road towards the Riviera, Dhërmi, Himara and Saranda, reports Tch.
No one from the protected areas and from the Ministry of the Environment thinks of taxing the passage of customers of the riviera resort builders. Or the same with Shelegur in Cologne, Rrushkull in Durrës, Kune Vain in Shengjin, or even Velipoja park.