More to come...

I've been really busy and hadn't had the time to post all my stories and pictures from my last trip to Macedonia. I'm sorry about that.  I promise you that you'll have a lot more to see and read here in the next couple of weeks. Please write your comments on my stories,and give me ideas about some of your favorite places in Macedonia, then maybe I can write a story and take some photos from there on my next trip this year.

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Sveti Spas - selo Evla, Resen

Sveti Spas can be found in the village Evla, a few kilometres from the town Resen. To reach the church you have to drive or walk from the village, up on the hill to the mountain. The church is built into the mountain wall. The church itself is really old, people don't really know how old it is. There is a lot of caves around the church, some can only be explored if you crawl on your knees through the tunnels leading to them.

There are a lot of mysteries circulating about the church and place surrounding it. Every year at the holiday Sveti Spas (Ascension) at one place in the cave, there is water dripping (some say holy water). You can't see water there on any other day. A lot of people gather there at the holiday mainly people living in Prespa-region. They light a candle in the church and people from the village are serving graf (a Macedonian specialty).

One of the caves

Inside the church

The stairs leading up to the church.

There is also a path on the mountain wall, where you have to climb through a passage in the cave. People say that couples that don't have or can't have children, should go this path 3 times in a row. And the saying is that it has helped maybe 90 % of all the couples that have done this.

The church has been rest orated in 2010. There is also a park before you climb up all the stairs leading to the church, where you can have a picnic or a barbecue. The view is marvellous and it is a nice and quiet place with the mountains and forest surrounding you.

Back from Macedonia -Pictures from Struga

Im back from my trip to Macedonia and I have a lot of posts to publish and a lot of pictures. First all the pictures from my visit to Struga. They are posted in a slideshow to the left. Enjoy!!!

Struga

The old bridge over the river Black Drim.

Struga is a town and popular tourist destination situated in the south-western region of the Republic of Macedonia, lying on the shore of Lake Ohrid. The old name of the city is Enchalon, the ancient Greek word for eel, a kind of fish that lives in the Lake Ohrid. Struga is located in an open valley on Lake Ohrid. The Black Drim river starts at the lake and divides the city.

Struga is also a place of important cultural significance in the Republic of Macedonia, as it is the birthplace of the poets Konstantin and Dimitar Miladinov. The main event of the cultural life in Struga is the world's largest poetry gathering. Its called
Struga Poetry Evenings, whose laureates have included several "Nobel Prize for Literature"-winners such as Joseph Brodsky, Eugenio Montale, Pablo Neruda, Seamus Heaney and many others since 1966.

River Black Drim

There are several cultural monuments in Struga and in its vicinity such as the Monastery of Kališta, a few kilometers away from the town center, lying on the shore of Lake Ohrid. It is believed that it dates from the 16th century, with frescoes from the 14th and the 15th centuries. The Church Sveta Bogorodica (St. Mary) in the village of Vraništa, is believed to be the one where Tsar Samuil was crowned. Near the village of Radolishta, a basilica from the 4th century has been discovered with a mosaic.

"Zenska Plaza" cafe-bar

You can enjoy three kinds of beaches in Struga called Male beach(Maska plaza), Female beach(Zenska), and Galeb Beach. A cafe-bar located on Female beach (called Zenska Plaza) have built a patio on the beach and a pier, which is a popular place at summertime. When sitting on the pier drinking coffee, it feels like your in the middle of the Lake. Out of the town center there is a popular restaurant built into a mountain-wall called Biser (Pearl). One of the restaurant's walls is actually the rocks of the mountain-wall.

Pictures from Krusevo

All the photos from my trip to Krusevo have been added to a slideshow and published on my blog. Enjoy!

Photos from Ohrid

Even more photos from Ohrid has been added to the slideshow that you can find to the left.


Enjoy!

Pictures from Prilep

More pictures from Prilep added in a slideshow and published on the blog. Enjoy!