Hotel Zastava 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.

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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

I opt to chill out for the day and stay in Ohrid. Pretty, peaceful, good hostel, friendly people … The girls, recovering Celine and I explore the town. The highlights are the tiny, Orthodox churches from a half century ago. Lots of personality, interesting frescoes with a backdrop of the mountains and lake. The views as we ...

... known image of Ohrid with the church set against the deep blue waters of the lake.

Traveling onward we visited the newly built St Clement's Monastery church and viewed the ruins of the older churches being excavated at the site (Plaosnik). We then climbed upward to probably the most impressive church of the bunch -- the Church Mother of God Perivleptos. The frescos were stunning and the helpful woman who sold Efren the ticket gave him a ...

... et le vatican se sont depeches a reconnaitre ces nouveaux pays (raymond gravel n'a pas le droit de faire de la politique, pourtant le modele vient de haut!!!)... oliver chez qui j'habite a une reponse bien simple:" avant nous etions un pays fort respecte par la communaute internationale.... maintenant, coupes en petits morceaux, que sommes-nous? rien... ca profite aux grands..." et je pense qu'il y a beaucoup de vrai la-dedans... pour l'instant, la panace, c'est l'union ...

... the longest inh*bit*ted chunk of l*nd on the continent. The city of Ohrid, 30-40,000 big, is the site of the first university in Europe, where Cyrilic w*s invented, *nd the whole old town in * UNESCO World Herit*ge site. But the bus ride here w*s the true *m*zement. M*cedoni* is - yep, I *m going to s*y it- the most be*utiful country I h*ve been to. Huge mount*ins, impossibly green, shoot down to tiny vill*ges of brick homes. Wide rivers flow everywhere. Impenetr*t*ble ...

... sa naprawde urocze. Ale najwieksze wrazenie robi bazylika sw. Klemensa. Obecny kosciol stoi tuz przy ruinach pierwszej swiatyni, z IV wieku. Dalej wspielismy sie na twierdze Samuila, z ktorej rozposcieral sie widok na cale miasto i okolice. Gory tutaj sa duzo bardziej zielone i zalesione niz te w Grecji. No i pierwszy raz od dwoch tygodni ...

My two week vacation from the peace corps has finally begun. I've been looking forward to this since my last trip ended in April. Last night I took the night bus from Sofia to Ohrid. Took almost 11 hours. Fortunately I got 2 seats to myself, unfortunately across the aisle from me a man was sporadically throwing up into a plastic bag all night. The border crossing came around 10 pm, took about an hour, pretty painless. Only annoying factor was we had ...

What a difference 4 hours on a bus makes. We arrived yesterday in Lake Ohrid to find a beautiful lake and sleepy resort town. A resort town in Macedonia you say? Yes, they do exist. We took a busted up old bus on the four hour trip from Skopje but it did have AC which made it bearable. Of course, we had to stop numerous times because it kept stalling and the driver had to do some quick work to fix the engine. I guess stuff like this just reminds me we are ...