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Lake Ohrid, Macedonia
After Peja, I headed to Macedonia’s Lake Ohrid. The road (a little detour) took me winding through Mavrovo NP. Wow, this place is SO beautiful, amazing scenery, lakes, rivers, mountains, villages, monasteries truly spectacular. It took me a long time to drive through as I was stopping to take in the beauty whenever the road allowed. Little villages dot the mountainsides high high up. So high it looks weird (iPhones can’t get good distance shots…). Some of the villages you wonder why up there??? The people that live there are either in hiding or really hate strangers!!! When I eventually got to Lake Ohrid I had to say goodbye to Jessie…
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Skopje, Macedonia
As soon as we entered Macedonia we started winding our way down the mountain (didn’t realise we were that high up in Bulgaria) narrow winding road following a fast flowing river down into the valley. Macedonia countryside on this side is a lot starker than Bulgaria, short stubby trees like the Cape. The place I am staying in Skopje is at the top of a steep hill, didn’t mention that online! that said the walk down into town was painless and on the whole quite uninteresting until… I hit Macedonia Square – that was a bit of a surprise! After walking along another street filled with shops and restaurants I…
