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Villa Swiss Ohrid

St. Stefan bb., Turisticka Naselba Ohrid, Macedonia

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Oh-mazing Ohrid!

A travel blog entry by mary.k.b.

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... of the water is beyond clear and beyond beautiful. Imagine holding a green/blue crystal up to the light and watching how it plays across the room - that's the hue of the water as it moves across the surface from you. Fish and guppies play meters down into the water, and naturally you can see them all the way to the bottom. Parts of the lakeside are reserved for fishing villages and villas, others are beaches and docks, but the vast stretches of land ...

Kosovo and Albania the perfect place for a holiday

A travel blog entry by marmite_boy

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... and hope they wouldn't smell anything. I messed around for a while whilst simultaneously trying to keep an eye on my pasta which was still happily boiling away. Typically my Leatherman was on the other side of the door so all I had to work with was a pan handle and a cooking spatula and a blunt knife. Luckily after about 10 minutes of mild panicking and strong to severe swearing I managed to get the door handle half on which gave enough purchase to open the door. It made me remember ...

Piss wet through

A travel blog entry by jordanblair100

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... cacophony emanating from the mental streets below.

At 8am the furlong, or mini-bus, that I had been sat waiting in for the past half hour finally departed Tirana in the direction of Albania's southern border post with Macedonia, near Pogradec. It didn't take long before we left the relative sanity of the capital and once again encountered the charming idiosyncrasies of this very underrated country. Passing Restaurant Pussi, I saw two cows sniffing around ...

Lake Ohrid, Macedonia

A travel blog entry by lostalready

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... were far more pleasant. Instead of beaches, the shore of the lake closest to town has been turned into a promenade. A stroll along the lakefront is a popular way to spend an evening and good business for the popcorn and icecream stands.

Heading for the Albanian border from Ohrid, we passed the little monastery of Sveti Naum. Perched on a peaceful cliff above the lake, it is still an operating monastery which surprised me seeing as ...

Ahh the beauty of it all

A travel blog entry by tanzamarie

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... the picture you can see a description. That is probably the best way to do this.

Side note on Ohrid: If you're not used to reading Cyrillic, you have to either like languages and/or puzzles. I thought it was tons of fun figuring out street signs and reading menus. I got pretty good at figuring out the names of saints on the icons too. To be honest, I'm a little more than impressed with myself. However I can see how the alphabet issue could be frustrating to other travelers.
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