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Ohrid
Macedonia
Bec2004-09-15 15:59:10
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Ohrid
Ohrid on the lake of the same name is a well developed tourist destination. It has everything, beautiful scenery, Roman and ancient Christian ruins, an old city surrounded by city walls and a medieval fortress, fine Orthodox churches and a great variety of tourist shops, restaurants, bars and accommodations.
The other side of the lake, belonging to Albania, is just as nice but it has been completely isolated from the rest of the world during Hoxha's paranoid communist rule and consequently has remained undeveloped. Day tours around the lake are now available so tourists coming to Ohrid can go slumming in Albania.
Here is the southern end of Sveti Kiliment Ohridski, Ohrid's main pedestrian mall where tourists normally flock to the terraces, cafes and boutiques. There were some tourists but not a third of the the usual crowd for this season.
Below left, the home of the Robevi family that has become the National Museum and below right, Car Samoil street where the museum is located.
I met the two girls on the left in the National Museum where had a pleasant chat with them before going on to visit the Sveti Sofiya church up the street. They were high school students on a day tour from a nearby Macedonian town. We met time and time again as we toured the sights, so often that it became a joke as we good humouredly accused each other of harassment. We met again as I was getting ready to take a picture of Orhid's famous plane tree so they posed for me in front of it with three other girls of their group. It was fun meeting them and I wish them all the best if they see their picture.
The plane tree behind this fountain at the northern end of Sveti Kliment Ohridski street is claimed to be 900 years old.
Below left, the street where I stayed with the Jankovska family and on the right, Sonia Jankovska, her son Filip and her mother Milka.
Further east we come to this newly built
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See photographs from:
Macedonia Gallery
