Skadar Lake is the biggest lake in the Balkan region. It is situated at Zeta-Skadar plain. Two thirds of this lake belongs to Montenegro and this part is the National Park, one third belongs to Albania. The average depth of Skadar Lake is about 6 m, but there are about 30 places, where its bottom becomes deeper (sometime the depth reaches 60 m) because of so-called "criptodepression". Shores are uneven, with numerous bays, coves, islands and peninsulas. At the Southern rocky part of the shore there is brushwood of chestnut.

This lake is an appropriate place for those, who are interested in ornithology. 264 spices of birds habit here, and many of them are rare or are dying out. Near the border with Albania there is the only natural nesting- place of Curly pelicans (Pelicanus crispus) in Europe. Hunters and fishermen will also find a lot of interesting at Skadar Lake. About 40 spices of fish habit in the lake, and it's allowed to hunt some spices of wildfowl. It's also possible to shoot such common for this region game, like fox, wolf, hare, wild boar.

This region has interesting history. You can find here a very uncommon complex of monasteries, churches and burial-vaults, straggling on small islands and villages on the shore. The first monastery – Vranjina – was found in 1233. Other buildings (total over 20 objects) were constructed in XIV-XV by Montenegrin ruling dynasties Balsic and Crnojevic. Nowadays about 10 of these monasteries are alive. The most famous are: Starcevo, Beska, Moracnik on islands along the Southern shore; Kom and Vranjina to the Northwest from the Lake and Obod in village Rijeka Crnojevica. Long ago this picturesque fishermen's village was a large trade centre. In XIX, before the Balkan Wars there were a lot of manufactures in Rijeka Crnojevica, and even earlier the first pharmacy in Montenegro and weapon factory were here.

Several fortresses, that remind us about long Montenegrin-Turkish conflict, remain in the region. And the most interesting among them is, doubtless, ruins of ancient Montenegrin capital Zabljak Crnojevica. At the end of XV Ivan Crnojevic had moved the capital to Cetinje because of the threat of Turkish invasion. Other places of interest are the fortress Lesendro and Turkish fortress Grmozur that is situated on the island of the same name. Montenegrin king Nikola had made a political prison here.