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Southern Bulgaria has lots of
beautiful mountains. Riding on the mostly good roads is
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| The Rozenski-Monastary
near Melnik, Bulgaria is worth a visit, but
the surrounding landscape is even prettier
(left photo).
Melnik, Bulgaria itself is a nicely
renovated village with lots of restaurants
and bars. Here one can buy good, cheap
Bulgarian wine in 3-Liter plastic bottles
(right photo).
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There are lots of Roman
ruins with beautiful mosaics in Macedonia,
as well as in Bulgaria.
left photo: "Stobi" about 10 km
north of Negotino, Macedonia (GPS: N41 33.025
E21 58.494)
right photo: "Heraclea Lyncestis"
in Bitola, Macedonia (GPS: N41 00.682 E21
20.601) |
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| There is a lot to see at the Ohrid
Lake: the nice old town of Ohrid, of
course the surrounding mountains and the lake
itself, and last but not least, "Sveti Naum,"
south towards the Albanian border. Sveti Naum
is (from the inside) the most interesting
orthodox church that we visited on this trip
(left photo). Unfortunately we didn't have
enough time to explore some of the
promising-looking mountain roads. |
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| Bunkers, bunkers and even
more bunkers, everywhere - this
can only be Albania! On mountains or
at the beach, one can see them everywhere,
there are more than 600,000 of them! They are
very hard to remove, and nobody has the money
to do it, so they stay as silent reminders of
a crazy dictator. |
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| The mountain roads in
Albania are very pretty and mostly in
drivable conditions. Not good but drivable. |
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| In Butrint, Albania we
weren't the only ones who wanted to visit the
Roman ruins. And the ruins are really worth a
visit! (GPS: N39 44.629 E20 01.122) A
motorcycle group from Bulgaria and a couple on
their bikes from Austria were already there,
when we arrived. (left photo)
The ferry at Butrint is a real
attraction! (right photo)
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