Hotel Daljan Ohrid

... restored but very little had been done with the remains inside. On my final day I was playing around wiht my camera and was befriended by the local nutter - who after some brief discussion about lateral thought the conversation focused heavily on his life in space and his travels across the galaxy!!! (When I returned to my guesthouse and told the owner, he knew exactly who I was talking about!!).<br> <br> <br><br>

Hallo zusammen,<br><br>bin vor 6 Uhr aufgestanden um den Bus nach Bitola zu erwischen. Dies war eine bedeutende ottomanische Stadt mit einigen Konsuln aus anderen Laendern. Daher gibt es einige nette alte Gebaeude, einige Moscheen und einen kleinen Basar, wie ihn jede islamische Stadt hat.<br><br>Die Stadt ist natuerlich nicht uebermaessig gross, hatte 3h Aufenthalt, neben der Stadt gibt es allerdings noch eine weitere Sehenswuerdigkeit 2km ...

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>

... ist die Stadt allerdings auch nicht, dass man hier Tage verbringen muss, habe noch einen Ausflug in eine weitere Stadt am Nordufer des Sees (Struga) unternommen und werde morgen frueh wieder weiterfahren.<br><br>Gruss<br>Ralf<br>< br>P.S.<br>Lese gerade, dass Sydney einen Duststurm hatte, Flieger aus NZ wurden zurueckgeschickt... Da habe ich ja Glueck gehabt.<br>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/a s_australia_dust_storm

... in opposite directions and eventually found it. Then up into the curvy mountains on our way to the lake. In between, however, was the least touristed border crossing I have ever been to. The Feurgon dropped us off near the border where a few taxis waited to take you the rest of the way. After walking across a border clearly meant only for cars another taxi rank waited to take you the rest of the way; this final taxi would cost more than the whole rest of the trip of ...

... for up to 15 days.. That's over a hundred quid for 15 days!!!! Our insurance for the whole year, mega cover, mega breakdown in EU etc is only 500 quid for 365 days!!! *******s - no wonder Eastern Europe has a bad name for being corrupt, they are! But we weren't going to let this spoil our trip so we pulled over and had some rescue remedy and went on our merry way to Lake Ohrid. The roads were just a mad and bad as Albania but lake Ohrid was stunning... we drove into what ...

... one that gave birth to God- Mother Mary). This church is just passed another hotel called The Pearl. The Pearl is very unique because part of this hotel is in the hill. We went into the restaurant which has this amazement inside, where people sit to eat can be next to part of the rock of the hill. It looks pretty cool. Then we came back to our hotel, ate dinner and the rest is another day's tomorrow. Good night!

... going inside to pay respect and putting your ear to the site, you can hear the heartbeat of St. Naum. I do not believe in this idea, but I tried it anyway.. no I did not hear the heartbeat. Just a little further down, was another church called. St. Petka. It really is very small, but people believe that the water it holds is "Holy" water. They stand in line to fill their water bottles and wash their faces with this water. I too, experienced ...

... was we actually got to Orhid, a mere 10 minute drive across the Albanian border. And once we got here we soon realised spending unexpected time here would have been so much easier to stomach. Day 29 & 30 Observations (September 11th & 12th 2007) · Visa This is a simple observation - if you're a Canadain and you're planning on going overland to Macedonia from Albania then make sure you get your visa before you arrive at the border. Easy.

... on the cliff edge of the lake. Fantastic setting. We took some more photos and followed the cliff path back to town where we went into Sveti Sofia. We remembered that Lonely Planet had said this old church had some good frescos. More expensive than the Fort and not so rewarding I think. Not as nice as some of the orthodox churches I've seen. We were still keeping an eye out for our Lonely Planet hoping that we would see someone reading it but, of ...