Hotel Cingo Ohrid

... had a couple of days in Ohrid, in my guesthouse was a family of 5 from NSW who were doing a tour of Greece and Macedonia (impressive since they had three young kids). The town itself is quite small and didn't take too long to walk around, there are a number of churchs on a steep hill on the east side of the town overlooking the lake and remains of a bascilica. The fortress was a surpise as the outside walls were ...

... Als Tourist hat man dies alles fuer sich. <br><br>Philip II, Vater von Alexander dem Grossen, gruendete nahe Bitola die Stadt Heraclea Lyncestis die bis in die byzantinische Zeit eine bedeutende Stadt war, im 4 Jahrhundert auch wichtige christliche Stadt wurde mit einer Basilika, von der heute noch gute Bodenmosaike erhalten sind. Die Stadt wurde dann von den Goten und erneut von den Slawen gepluendert und verfiel dann.<br><br>Gruss<br>Ralf

Hallo zusammen,<br><br>anbei noch einige Nachtaufnahmen aus Ohrid. Endlich weiss ich, dass ich mein Trauma vom Raubueberfall ueberwunden habe, wenn ich durch eine dunkle osteuropaeische Stadt wandere:-) <br><br>Gruss<br>Ralf<br>

... als Einnahmequelle zu foerdern, hat aber das Problem, dass es keine Kueste hat, das haelt dann doch viele Touristen ab hierhin zu kommen. Dafuer hat es den tiefsten See des Balkans, Lake Ohrid, an dessen Ufer die Stadt Ohrid liegt (300m tief). Dies ist die schoenste Stadt Mazedoniens, einige Kirchen, eine Festung ueber der Stadt und einige alte Gebaeude. Es ist daher auch die touristischste Stadt. So ...

Our trip out of Albania was an exciting one. The only direct way from Albania to Ohrid was from Tirana. To avoid and extra few hours on the bus, we decided to take the more interesting route. One bus from Berat to Elbessan. In Elbessan we were told we have to transfer to a Feurgon (basically a van/taxi that waits until it is full to head off). Unfortunately, everyone had a different version of where to catch the Feurgon. we wondered around a bit, asked several people, got ...

... energy and even thought the men had fixed the key and lock situation I didn't feel safe and Ned agreed so we headed for Macedonia... The Macedonian boarder was to date the only one we have had problems with.... the ***** on the border gave us a really hard time, I think she thought she was in some 50's communist movie complete with peroxide hair and frown! We were totally ripped off at the boarder as our insurance didn't cover us here so we had to pay 130 euro to be ...

... not supposed too but they do anyway. After resting and listening to Melisa and Marija catch up, we left to go back to Melisa's house. There we sat outside on their beautiful landscaped porch and visited some more. We also got our left over along with some more fruit. Melisa's brother Bledi arrived just before we got ready to leave. After leaving we went to St Bogorodica ( Bog-God, Ragja-gives birth- means ...

... roman ruin with mosaics. We both remembered reading about it. It had been a basilica - huge one at that. There was nothing much left though, just the floor with mosaics. There was a restored medieval church further down the hill so we went to see that too. Church of St Clements I think. Very nice. I love the architecture of the churches here. We looked at the mosaics near that too and wandered down a track that eventually led down to an old ...