Here are my photos from Macedonia that I took in August 2008
Kale Fortress, Skopje, the Gov should spend some money on cleaning it up, could be a really nice spot.


View from Kale Fortress



Gradski stadium, will be redeveloped soon



Gotta love the Macedonian hamburger with chips (This one gave my wife food poisioning, tasted good though, just make sure they are cooked fresh, this one had been sitting there for who knows how long)

Macedonian parliament house, it would have been good if they had a sign, I only figured it out from the tourist map.

Nice new building in the Makedonija Ulitsa (Centre of Skopje)

Street view of Makedonija Ulitsa, very trendy with nice bars and cafes, leades to Makedonija Square and the Kamen Most.

Skopje Museum, it would have been good to visit but it was closed the two days we were in Skopje

Skopsko pivo with a pizza, it was a very nice italian restuarant in Skopje, good prices as well

Korzo, Bitola. Gotta love the night life, this street is packed at night.

Chesma in Egri, this is mineral water, tastes just like flat Pelisterka

Egri

Skopsko in 1.5 litre plastic bottle. In Serbia they have 2ltr beer bottles.

Dragozani

This is the site where they are planning to build a Monastery in Dragozani

Heraklea, Bitola. Incredible place to visit.

Mosaics at Heraklea



Chesma, at the base of the ampitheatre, Heraklea.

Ampitheatre, Heraklea

Struga

King Samuil's Fortress, Ohrid

McDonald's in Ohrid, they don't sell chips, but they sell toast. I only tried it once, the Macedonian's make a better hamburger than McDonalds.

Ohrid

Sveti Kilment, statue in Ohrid

Nice landscape shot

King Samuil's Fortress



View from the Fortress


View of Sveti Kliment (correct me if I'm wrong), Plasonik from the fortress


Sveti Kliment Plasonik. beautiful church build in the 13th century, I'm pretty sure Sveti Kliment is buried there


Ohrid Museum

Ohrid Museum, this a what a typical Macedonian house would have looked like, gotta love the difdik on the bed



Sveti Naum statue

Sveti Naum church, Sveti Naum is buried there




After coming home from clubbing we would get corn and wood from the selo and cook the corn alongside the Drim, was a very good experience. This is in the selo Vranista, Struga

Dragozani photos from approx 1000 meters up a mountain



Fields in Dragozani


Clock tower Bitola



Korzo, Bitola

Solun, spotting the actual Macedonian there is like finding Wally, (everyone looks Turk)

Cheers for the photos Selanets. The scenery is Dragozani is great.

Thanks Mlade, also thanks for your help on posting images. Yeah I found most of the scenery that I saw in Macedonia that I visited as being very beautiful and you can see why most of our neighbours want our land. Dragozani has some very nice scenery, is 12 km from Bitola and yet the young people leave the selo in droves. I think that when the economy gets stronger people will rush back into places like Dragozani.

Ahh the chesma and gaski in Egri, so many memories!!! Sho barashe ti vo Egri Selanets?

You're asking a selanets what he was doing in a selo? lol.

I have a tetka that lives there, they live across from the school.

Ahh ok.. Im from the family trajchevci..

I was in Macedonia back in July-August 2003, summertime there, it was my first trip and i loved it but i only spent 6 weeks should have stayed longer. I remember going to Dragozani once, correct me if i'm wrong but i think it's like the next village from Sekirani.

where are the sliki?

Sorry Sekirani, haven't visited my post for a while, yeah Dragozani is right next to Sekirani. I have never visited Sekirani but from what I've been told its similar to Dragozani.

Yeah Macedonia is a great place, if only people made some money it would be better for the locals as well.

Best place in Macedonia. Is this just past the Hotel Drim?
Selanets did you like Selo Vraništa

I have a lot of relatives in Vranishta, and Lozani. Did you go to Alegro, or Enigma while you were there?

I prefer Vranista to Lozani as a selo. But i guess that Lozani has better soccer skills.

If u had been in Lozani 10 years ago, you would have been singing a different tune. Unfortunately most, if not all of the mladi have moved to Struga (in the actual city). But the girls in Vranishta are better than Lozani.

Epa ti od kade si Lozani ili Vranista?

Od Bidjevo sum

Yeah Vransiata was a great selo, my mate from Australias mum is from there, while we were in Macedonia we spent a week there. it's a massive selo, as we arrived we asked so people if they new my mate or his family, they didn't. Just shows how large a selo it is.

From what I could see the people seem a lot better off than the people from Bitola, don't know why, but I assume it's the flow on effect of tourism.

Yeah we were at Elegro every night, was a great place, if every selo was a bit like Vransta, Macedonia would be an even better place than it already is.

If only Egri was like that..

It's not that they are well off, but that they are self sufficient. Everything they need in that village is within arms length, and the villagers are so diversified in trades and talents, that no chore is left undone.

What was your friends moms last name?

Don't know his mum's surname, but his grand parents have a house in the old part of the selo, near the one of the Churches and near that old large abandoned store.

I found people were more positive in Struga than in Bitola, everyone is negative in Bitola about their future.

Thats Sred Selo, I probably know the family.