Hotel Arka Skopje
Bitpazarska 90/2 Skopje, 1000, Macedonia
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Rough diamonds in Skopje
... fading stickers in their windows advertising local beers.
After asking directions from a group of Coca-Cola delivery men, who flailed their arms and debated and joked among themselves before sending us in the opposite direction, we found ourselves with a vague sense of our position and eventually found the hostel. The place was locked and silent, and our freezing fingers and empty stomachs we desperately shouted and banged against the door. At the point ...
FYROM
... ripe watermelons. The smells are a mixture of freshness and the aroma of a heavily used restroom. Covering the skyline are the towers of mosques and churches.
The fascinating aspect of southern Europe is the heat. It is dry and hot in the south, a welcome relief from the north of Europe, though I will make the most of each day till my journey continues and I find myself adding more and ...
MK : Macedonia
Drove straight through. What odd landscape. And absolutely nothing anywhere… except for toll booths that don't take Convertible Marks (Bosnian money) and let you pass through for free (we had absolutely no cash money on us) Actually at one toll booth I tried to explain we only had Convertible Marks, he nodded, and I gave him 2 KM, but it looks similar to 2 Euros and he even gave me back 1 Euro change, which means we only paid like 50 cents for a 2 Euro ...
Wine and war zones
... come with me. It was suggested we head out early, so we had both set our alarms and risen at around 7:30am.
The cool hostel we were staying at, like many places thus far on the trip, had only two bathrooms. There was only four of us guests, so it was more than sufficient during the day. But when people are getting up around the same time and need to do their morning business then the demand for the bogs could become competitive. And this was a ...
Concrete city
... squares and parks. We walked up to the fortress above the city where you had a good view. From there you saw the whole glory of the concrete, it wasn't a particularly nice view! We then wandered down into the old Turkish part of town, which was clearly poorer than the more modern part of town on the other side of the river. Here there were some nice historic mosques ...



