Our first stop in Macedonia was a small city on the shores of Lake Ohrid with a compact old town, where medieval churches, monasteries, and open-air ruins stand alongside traditional houses with red-tiled roofs. The massive walls of the centuries-old Samoil’s Fortress, at the top of the...
This revered 1020 Byzantine monastery surrounded by dense forest is nested above the canyon of River Radika on the foot of Bistra Mountain. The monastery got its name Bigorski because it has been built with large blocks of travertine. The frescoed church houses what is alleged to be St...
We spent all day driving road R1201 through National Park Mavrovo. It is the largest national park in North Macedonia located in the west of the country. It was established in 1949 covering an area of 780 km2. It is characterized by deep gorges, karst fields, lakes, waterfalls, and dense...
We planned to drive from Stobi to Janče in one day with some stops in Zrze and Prilep, but due to a heavy landslide on A1 Road, which blocked us for 6 hours, we made it only to Kičevo. It is a city in the western part of North Macedonia, located in a valley on the south-eastern slopes of...
We drove through tobacco fields along a narrow, steep mountain road to Zrze Monastery, where only 7 monks live now. It is located on the clifftop above the village Zrze at an elevation of 1000 meters, around 26 kilometers from Prilep. The monastery’s tranquil position around a...
On our way to Zrze Monastery, we made a short stop in Prilep’s Revolution Park. There is Burial Mound of the Unbeaten – a magnificent monument to Prilep’s Partisan soldiers who died in WWII. It is the 1961 work of one of the former Yugoslavia’s most brilliant...
Stobi (entrance 120 MKD) was an ancient town of Paeonia, later conquered by Macedon, and finally turned into the capital of the Roman province of Macedonia Salutaris. Stobi was built where the Erigon (Crna River) joins the Axios (Vardar), making it strategically important as a center for...
We took a diesel (104,50 MKD / l) on the way to the famous Matka Canyon – one of the most visited places in North Macedonia. This beautiful canyon is located only a short ride away from the capital of Skopje. We had rainy weather, but still, the high mountains rolling steeply to the deep...
Monastery of Saint George is located on the slopes of Kozjak Mountain and in the vast Pcinja River valley. The original Church is sitting in the inconspicuous village of Staro Nagoričane. It was built by the Byzantine Emperor Roman IV Diogenes in 1071. As one of his many endowments...
We made a short visit on our Honda scooter to Kuklica Stone Dolls – a natural phenomenon located 8 km from Kratovo. Erosion and its varying effects on the area’s volcanic rocks are behind the formation of these bizarre “rock dolls”, which are estimated to be nearly 30 million...