Ohrid 2 Days Travel Program

Starting with pick up form your address and drive west to Mavrovo. A walking tour of Mavrovo National Park, which represents one of the most attractive tourist centers in Macedonia. In Mavrovo National Park and near it, there is the most famous village of Galichnik, then and the Monastery of St. Jovan Bigorski (St John the Baptist). The village of Galichnik lies in the heart of the Mount Bistra. It is a typical Macedonian village which is famous for many things but mostly for the national festival Galichka Wedding. Some free time for a snack – before leaving for Ohrid.

On the route to Ohrid visit ethno village Vevchani and famous Vevchani spring,

The tour in Ohrid starts in front of the statue of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, and it continues to the Lower gate, the National Museum of Ohrid, the Church of St Sophia, the Roman amphitheater, the Upper gate, St Clement’s Church of the Holy Mother of God Most Glorious (Sveta Bogorodica Perivleptos), The Icon Gallery, Tsar Samoil’s fortress, Plaoshnik, and it ends in a walk through Ohrid’s marketplace. Dinner

After relaxed breakfast we are going St. Naum with stop and visit the Museum on water – Bay of Bones – Museum on Water represents a reconstruction of a settlement from the Iron and Bronze ages, and it will be a tourist attraction for Macedonia but also for many visitors from abroad. The Museum on Water represents a place where the visitors will be able to travel back in time, from Slavic to Roman times, all the way to Prehistory, at the end of Bronze Age and the beginning of Iron Age.

The springs at St. Naum is part of the national park Galicica zone regime of strict protection, where passenger transport is carried out only by boat and is not permitted use of the engine. The church built by the monk St. Naum, beginning of X century, dedicated to the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel was destroyed. Besides the cultural inspiration that gives this tour, you will have the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful nature, to cruise the sources by boat, to drink coffee in one of the restaurants or while enjoying or opportunity for national organized lunch menu.

After the tour, we are returning in Skopje……