Walking Through Enchanting Ohrid

Ohrid is rapidly becoming ane of the highlights of a trip to the Balkans, as well as for a expert reason. Leaving quirky Skopje for repose as well as pleasant Lake Ohrid made me experience every bit I had crossed nonetheless some other edge of onetime Yugoslavia. Yet Ohrid, alongside its elegant ancient architecture, is inwards Macedonia, the same country as bombastic Skopje alongside its huge statues and its kitsch neoclassical architecture.

Sveti Jovan Kaneo

Let me receive from the best Ohrid has to offer. The church building of Sveti Jovan Kaneo is similar a perfect postcard. It's only a minor 13th-century church building on a cliff overlooking the lake, but what makes it thence special is the repose atmosphere. No wonder that inwards the yesteryear it was used every bit a house for meditation.  The beautiful roof shaped similar an half-folded umbrella is one of my favourite features of this church building as well as it indicates an Armenian influence. Just think of the mix of cultures inwards this minor corner of the world. For example, the purpose of the town on the hill used to last Christian, field the purpose on the apartment soil was Ottoman. 

Another motion-picture present of Sveti Jovan Kaneo

I reached the church building after a curt as well as pleasant hike from the old town. After a gentle curvature I saw the church building appear inwards the distance. There weren't also many people (it actually depends on the 2nd of the day) as well as I spent some fourth dimension on the colina inwards a higher house the church building looking at the perfect sentiment as well as reading. H5N1 adult woman was ikon as well as every straightaway as well as and thence a minor grouping of tourists would come, admire the church building as well as operate out after a curt time. 



Sveti Jovan from the curvature inwards the road

Nearby at that spot is also a minor beach alongside a yoke of restaurants: only the perfect house to chill out. As Ohrid is dotted alongside monasteries as well as ancient churches, I kept exploring: I discovered that the church building of Saint Penteleimon hosted the start students of the Glagolitic alphabet, which inwards fourth dimension became the Cyrill script of Macedonian as well as other Slavic languages. 

I also ran into the ruins of a fortress, Car Samuil, alongside an  impressive view, as well as afterward into an ancient amphitheater. There is thence much to explore that you lot if you lot similar history similar me you'll non instruct bored. The weather condition was special as well as every 2 minutes at that spot was something to halt for: a prissy view, a historical site or a scene of everyday Macdonian life.

Landscape inwards the old town

The town itself is crumbling inwards places, but incredibly fascinating. Here old Ottoman traditions encounter the Christian Orthodox world. Its cobbled streets all atomic number 82 to the principal square, alongside a huge tree that is said to last 900 years old. The menus inwards the restaurants around the foursquare as well as the bazaar included stuffed peppers, shopska salata, sarma dumplings as well as other Macedonian specialities.

Charming Ohrid

Ohrid is a minor town, thence on the 2nd day, having explored every nook as well as cranny, I decided to direct hold a twenty-four hr catamenia trip to Sveti Naum monastery. There is a ferry that leaves at 10 inwards the morning time from the pier as well as for 10€ takes you lot there, as well as thence comes dorsum after lunch. I discovered that Lake Ohrid was ane of Tito's favourite parts of Yugoslavia (he had a villa here) as well as inwards the meantime I observed the less developed Albanian side of the lake. 

When I was around Sveti Naum at that spot was an of import marriage as well as fifty-fifty the president of Republic of Macedonia was present. The entry to the monastery was 100 dinars (1,60€). It is tiny as well as dark, every bit it is within Sveti Jovan Kaneo church, but the frescoes were somehow fascinating.



Sveti Naum monastery

There were peacocks inwards the courtyard as well as some girls were rehearsing a traditional folk trip the low-cal fantastic for the wedding.  There is also another newer church that I liked, some hiking trails, a saltation as well as a yoke of restaurants as well as souvenir shops. It's a prissy trip but perhaps it would direct hold been amend to yoke it alongside something else to create total upward the residual of the day.

The newer church building near Sveti Naum

I reached Ohrid alongside a three-and-a-half-hour double-decker ride from Skopje. If you're planning to visit this beautiful lake keep inwards heed that it's tricky to maintain on to Greece, as well as inwards my experience it was easier to instruct a double-decker dorsum to Skopje as well as and thence some other ane to Thessaloniki. If I cry back good there is to a greater extent than than ane society that servers the route Skopje - Ohrid, thence ane stand upward could non last able to say you lot the timetable for the other society as well as endeavour to sell you lot their ticket only.

A sentiment from behind the fortress

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