Hotel Daljan Ohrid

... Als Tourist hat man dies alles fuer sich.

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.

Gruss
Ralf

Hallo zusammen,

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:-)

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Ralf

... 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.

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Ralf
< br>P.S.
Lese gerade, dass Sydney einen Duststurm hatte, Flieger aus NZ wurden zurueckgeschickt... Da habe ich ja Glueck gehabt.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/a s_australia_dust_storm

... on tiny bumpy road by lake. Stop by some cops to enquire further. They turn out to be military, seem up to something suspicious, and are not at all amused to be quizzed by gawping foreigner!
Decide to give up quest and head for hotel. First one snooty and full; but second turns out to be pearl: right on lake, bustling little restaurant with excellent menu. Whew!
Turns out to be called 'Sveti Steafan's' (try saying that out loud!)

... which looked over the lake. It reminded me of being back in Rwanda looking over at the Congo, but this time into Albania. Orhid is a really nice little touristy town that has not got the tourist levels of say some where in Greece or Croatia. There are little streets with shops and the old part of the town is really nice. Final thoughts on Macedonia Like I mentioned before I have been presently suprised with Macedonia. A lot of people wouldnt even know ...

... past us with centimetres to spare. Davor, our driver, drew our admiration for the way he negotiated these roads safely. All along the road are bunkers and pill boxes built during the Communist era, ostensibly against outside invaders but more as tokens of fear for the local population. We were told there are nearly 800,000 of them throughout Albania. We stopped in the town of Elbasan for lunch and then drove to the Albanian/Macedonian border.It took nearly two ...

... 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!

... From replenishment, we headed to window shop and to buy some gifts. In the middle of all the chaos there is what is called Chinar. It is an 1,100 year old tree, which is being protected. It was cool looking and it had actually split in half, so it looks like 2 trees but is only 1. After just a little more looking, we went back to the car to drive back to our hotel. We took showers and checked emails and just enjoyed each other... when ...

After sleeping 4 hours I was up to pack up my bag and bring it over to Al's apartment. He has a beautiful place just outside the walls of the Old Town. After that I met Ben at the port and ran to get some burek and yoghurt drink (iryan in Bulgarian) to take with us on our boat - he held the boat for us while I got the breakfast and literally ran the 3 blocks back to the port. The boat ...

Sair da Albania e complicado... Essencialmente pq em tirana ha cerca de 3 ou 4 estacoes de autocarro...ou melhor, ha 3 ou 4 sitios onde os autocarros param, e q os albaneses por obra e graca do nosso senhor sabem q aquilo e uma estacao de autocarros, e tb por accao divina, sabem para qual dos parques de estacionamento teem q se dirigir, consoante o sitio para onde ...